Setting the stage : creating a safe and welcoming environment -- Determining goals : providing a healing structure -- Breaking the secret of childhood abuse : feeling the support of the group -- Continuation of breaking the secret -- Understanding & releasing the shame that binds the survivor to the abuse -- Getting to know the child within who experienced the abuse -- Dialoging with the child within as a way to explore repressed feelings -- Helping the child within to release her anger -- Confrontation of the abuser in reality or in fantasy -- Practicing confrontation with group support -- Grief and loss of a happy childhood -- Bittersweet endings of this group experience -- Session for significant others.
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