1; (Kirschner and Rappaport 19). Therefore, immediate response after the act has taken place is vital and through various means and methods, a psychiatrist can repair the emotional wounds. For instance, if the victim was a young child, one that hasn’t reached adolescence, the use of “play therapy” would be used. The therapy begins with “play diagnosis” as a means of using toys or dolls to let the child displace his or her feelings and traumas onto them so the therapist can focus on identifying significant events and assessing their impact on personality and feelings. The therapist would then try to use the same approach but using “play therapy” to begin to heal the child by reversing the displaced feelings back onto the child (Sgroi 1). In contrast to children, group therapy is more suited for the abused adolescent. This treatment gives victims the feeling that they are not the only ones that sexual abuse has happened to and can help one another by relating to each other’s feelings of despair and shame. Group therapy reincorporates the adolescent victims, who feel isolated and alienated from their peers, and begins to build trust leading to exploration and expression of feelings (Sgroi 65). Through immediate professional counseling of children and support from family, the ultimate goal of healing the child’s self-esteem and guilt can be achieved.Healing is the only hope for a pedophile victim and incarceration is what pedophile deserves. But for a poor child exposed this pedophile’s twisted world, there can be no punishment to take back what will never be again. Even more so are those that contract an incurable disease and must be constantly reminded of the lewd and lascivious assault on their purity of heart. For the 80,000 victims reported yearly in the United States, there is no justice for a embedded feeling that will haunt them for the rest of their lives. But ...
