sexual abuse. if you are talking about new zealand than the acc form basically involves:

acc form: 'were you sexually abused'
you: 'yes'

and bingo you are covered. i don't think you need to name the person and i don't think that charges are inevitable or anything like that.

personally... i refused to classify what happened to me as 'abuse' (it is complicated - but i have my reasons and that is the path i chose to take). hence... acc funding was not available to me. have i been physically abused? yep. have i been psychologically abused? yep. they aren't the magic words for the acc form, however...

acc accreditation can be more or less tricky for a therapist to obtain. it isn't just about their being qualified (acc accreditation is often a councellor / psychologists high road to private practice) rather it is about years of experience, experience with sexual abuse trauma etc etc etc. it might well be that if a therapist has been working for a number of years on those issues and has other health professionals who do have acc accreditation vouching for them that it is a relatively simple process... i have also heard, however, that acc accreditation can be hard to get (mostly from people who are newly qualitifed admittedly), but there can be a bit to that...

but... it all depends on where you are from because the process (and govt. reimbursement for practitioners) varies by country...

but then... come to think of it... is NZ the only country with acc???