Teresa Gil, Ph.D.
Hudson Valley Community College
Title: Women with Histories of Childhood Sexual Abuse: Mothering, Resilience and Protecting the Next Generation
Biography
Biography: Teresa Gil, Ph.D.
Abstract
Presentation Description:
The workshop will name and examine the risk and protective factors that mothers who have experienced child sexual abuse had to overcome in order and protect their children from the abuse they experienced. The workshop will examine the social and emotional challenges faced by this particular group of mothers. However, the workshop will also focus on the protective factors in their lives of these mothers that help them to “defy the odds” and give their children something positive and significantly different from what they experienced as children. The workshop will examine the long-term impact of adverse childhood experiences (ACE’S). Therapeutic interventions and strategies will be addressed.