Rescue and remedy: A process documentation of psychotherapy with children in institutions

Child sexual abuse (CSA) and commercial sexual exploitation of children rob them of positive life opportunities. Much of the children's therapeutic needs stem directly from their experience with trauma. Providing psychotherapeutic support to these children is what motivated Arpan, an NGO working on CSA, to initiate psychotherapeutic intervention in institutions. The objective of this “process documentation” was to document the process of the psychotherapeutic intervention conducted with institution-based adolescent girls over 5 years, identify the positive outcomes, as well as the bottlenecks, and evolve a model of psychotherapeutic intervention for working with institutionalized children who have survived trauma and abuse.