Theories on why sexual abuse happens

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This article is written for women and assumes a male offender, however SECASA acknowledges that both men and women can be survivors of sexual abuse and that offenders can be male and female.

Contents

1. Introduction
2. The psychoanalytic approach
3. The victim precipitation approach
4. The family dysfunction approach
5. Psychological approaches
6. The feminist approach
7. The four pre conditions model

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