2007 Volume 21 Issue 1 Pages 45-57
Victims of sex crime at puberty and adolescence exhibit physical and psychological discomforts from the trauma, and their families, mainly mothers, also become emotionally unstable. In many cases, the above-mentioned conditions interfere with those children's resilience from the trauma. An effect of an early crisis intervention will be discussed through two cases, in which a counselor at a police department worked together with police officers and staff as a team, collaborated with school of those children, and arranged counseling all at an early phase.
As a part of the early intervention, counseling was provided individually for children and their mothers to support “the resilience of family” as a whole and communication was encouraged among family members. Consequently, as families became more stable, children became more stable emotionally, as well.
Supposedly, the early resilience of these children was brought by two main factors: a crisis of sex crime was considered to be a crisis of the family at large and to be an opportunity of a sexual education, and also the counselor facilitated coordination with school and a local community at the same time.
The followings are themes for future to be considered: development of family support system to take an early intervention effectively and development of a preventive psychological education for children with sex crime should be coped appropriately at a critical time.
