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15 J. Child Sexual Abuse 1 (2006)

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                 EFFECTS OF CHILD
            SEXUAL ABUSE ON YOUTH




    Signs of Resilience in Sexually Abused

 Adolescent Girls in the Foster Care System

                           Tonya  Edmond
                           Wendy  Auslander
                             Diane  Elze
                          Sharon  Bowland


   Tonya Edmond, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Social Work at the George Warren
Brown School of Social Work (GWB) at Washington University in St. Louis. She is cur-
rently studying intervention approaches used within rape crisis centers to address PTSD
and substance abuse among sexual trauma survivors through the Comorbidity and Ad-
dictions Center at GWB. Wendy Auslander, PhD, is Professor of Social Work at the
George Warren Brown School of Social Work (GWB), Washington University in St.
Louis. She is also Associate Director of the Comorbidity and Addictions Center at GWB.
Dr. Auslander is currently studying the influence of mental health, substance and sexual
abuse on adolescent risk behaviors. Diane Elze, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Social
Work at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work (GWB), Washington Univer-
sity in St. Louis. Dr. Elze currently is studying substance abuse, comorbid mental health
problems, and HIV risk behaviors among gay, lesbian, and bisexual adolescents, through
the Comorbidity and Addictions Center. Sharon Bowland is currently a doctoral student
at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work (GWB), Washington University in
St. Louis.
   Address correspondence to: Tonya Edmond, PhD, Assistant Professor, George
Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University, Campus Box 1196, St.
Louis, MO 63130 USA (E-mail: tee l@wustl.edu).
   The authors would like to thank the staff at the Missouri Division of Family Ser-
vices, St. Louis County Office.
   This work was supported by Grant No. R01 HD35445 from the National Institute of
Child Health and Human Development and the Annie E. Casey Foundation to the George
Warren Brown School of Social Work of Washington University.
   Submitted for publication: 4/2/04; revised 7/2/04; revised 12/28/04; accepted 1/4/05.
               Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, Vol. 15(1) 2006
          Available online at http://www.haworthpress.com/web/JCSA
            @ 2006 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved.
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