Sexual Abuse of Children

Sexual Abuse of Children: Understanding, Prevention and Treatment

Dr. Glockler offers a considered response to the increasing incidence of children who have been sexually abused – most often by someone they love and trust. Here is a social overview, with suggestions for the direction of medical, psychological and pedagogical treatment.

Content:

• Recognizing Sextual Abuse
• Understanding the Perpetrator
• Developmental Conditions for Human Sexuality
• Therapeutic Steps for Victim and Perpetrator

About the Author

Dr. Michaela Glöckler has been Leader of the Medical Section at the Goetheanum, the School of Spiritual Science in Dornach, Switzerland since 1988. She attended the Waldorf School in Stuttgart, then studied German language, literature, and history in Freiburg and Heidelberg. She studied medicine in Tübingen and Marburg and trained as a pediatrician at the community hospital in Herdecke and at the Bochum University Pediatric Clinic. Until 1988 she was a colleague in the children’s outpatient clinic at the Community Hospital in Herdecke and served as school doctor for the Rudolf Steiner School in Witten, Germany. Michaela has many publications in German, many of which have been published in English.