Child sexual abuse, as defined by the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA, 1996), includes the use of persuasion, enticement, and other inducements to coerce a child into engaging in conduct sexually explicit or simulation of sexual acts. Victims of sexual abuse often carry with them both psychological and physical problems throughout their lives. Over the past 20 years, considerable literature has been published focusing on the long-term consequences of childhood sexual abuse. Survivors cannot be stereotyped. Some transcend experience and become vocal advocates for social change (Steed, 1995). Others adopt risky lifestyles such as prostitution, promiscuity and substance abuse. Recovery is possible (Steed 1995; Wilson,2009). Transcendence through experience involves telling the secret and being supported. The therapeutic process is about opening up and remembering the truth, understanding the imprint of sexual trauma, and discovering the meaning of the experience (Parse, 1998; Steed, 1995). There is a high incidence of long-term psychological problems for childhood survivors. sexual abuse. George (1996) found that adults who had experienced childhood sexual abuse were twice as likely to suffer from mental disorders than their peers who had not experienced abuse. Zlotnick, Mattia, Zimmerman (2001) found that patients with a history of childhood sexual abuse are at increased risk of psychiatric morbidity and prolonged depression. The study was conducted using 235 patients in a psychiatric outpatient facility with an age range of 18 to 65 with an average age of 47.4 years. A history of sexual abuse increases the risk of eating disorders. Higher rates of eating disorders are found… half of the paper… both child and adult abuse have been found to have worse health outcomes than women who were not abused, but the contribution of co-occurrences child and adult abuse could not be examined. Women who experienced both child abuse and adult IPV and women who experienced only adult IPV were more likely to report chronic physical symptoms than women who experienced no violence. Conclusion I believe it is very important that psychologists and psychiatrists begin to study long-term therapy for depression in children instead of short-term discontinuous therapies which may prove less effective than those with a more longitudinal effect. In my opinion, I was very interested in studies related to the health consequences of childhood sexual abuse and how each disorder affected it.