Men Sexual Abuse Support Groups

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• - The work of skillful group therapy is to provide a context to reclaim oneself in connection with other survivors through the renewing transferential experiences both with facilitators and one another.
  
• - Discussion and review of statistics on the sexual abuse of male children.
  
• - Since our society expects any male to rise above his feelings and overcome difficulties, many male children and adult survivors of sexual abuse are reluctant to tell.
  
• - Addresses the sexual assault of adult men, especially resources for male survivors.
  
• - Empowers male youth and the institutions that serve them to work as allies with women in preventing rape and other forms of men's violence.
  
• - Although both boys and girls show many similar behaviors as a result of early sexual encounters with an adults, it has become apparent that in some significant ways, they process the experience differently.
  
• - Estimates put female perpetrators of sexual abuse at about 20% for male children and 5% for female children.
  
• - Assistance and support for gay and bisexual male's who have been sexually abused.
  
• - A community and safe haven for all male survivors of sexual, physical, and emotional abuse.
  
• - Sexual abuse of boys appears to be underrecognized, underreported, and undertreated, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
  
• - A review of the literature on sexual child abuse and its impact on communication.
  
• - Information about the sexual assault of men and sexual abuse of boys, and resources for male survivors of sexual violence.
  
• - A mother's experience at dealing with her five year old son's disclosure of sexual abuse.