RE: APA statements

["Peter M. Barach, Ph.D." <pbarach@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jerry Jensen asked some questions about the Rind et al. study:
> Can someone explain to me how the results of this
> meta-analysis of college
> students can be generalized to the whole population?

	Much of the data in the meta-analysis comes from a study on exposure of
adolescents to "deviants," e.g., somebody approaching a teen in a
shopping mall. These kinds of encounters often do not have long-term
effects and I am appalled at the authors' even including this data in a
study of the effects of child sexual ABUSE. Most reasonable people are
open to the idea that different child-adult sexual contact scenarios and
different children will produce a range of outcomes, but it is absurd to
generalize this kind of data to other kinds of child-adult sexual
contact.

> is it just folklore
> that many CSA
> victims don't begin to "deal with these issues" until they
> are in their
> 30's to 50's?

	Peter

Peter M. Barach, Ph.D. (pbarach@xxxxxxxxxxx)
Clinical Psychologist
President, International Society for the Study of Dissociation
5851 Pearl Road, Suite 305
Cleveland, OH 44130 USA
Phone:  Voice: 440-845-9011 (press 6 for voice mail)
        Fax:   440-845-9013
Opinions expressed in this post are my own and are not necessarily those
of ISSD