Cases of sexual abuse feature increasingly frequently in the daily press and media and awareness of these problems has undoubtedly increased, but information about and analysis of the phenomenon tend to be incorrect: civil society is generally poorly informed about sexual aggressors and their victims.
Research in psychotherapy boasts a level of technical evolution and improvement (in terms of results) that few other areas of clinical psychology can match. Over the past twenty years, the psychological approach to mental disorders has altered radically on the basis of randomised controlled studies.