Review of Shattered Innocence: A Practical Guide for Counseling Women Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse.

1996 ◽  
Vol 41 (7) ◽  
pp. 731-731
Author(s):  
Laura L. Rencher
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Childhood Sexual Abuse ◽  
Women Survivors ◽  
Practical Guide

Losses Associated With Childhood Sexual Abuse in Women Survivors: A Scoping Review

2021 ◽  
pp. 152483802110131
Author(s):  
Baaqira Kays Ebrahim ◽  
Ansie Fouche ◽  
Hayley Walker-Williams
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Childhood Sexual Abuse ◽  
Women Survivors ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Adult Women ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Female Survivors ◽  
Review Question ◽  
Abuse Treatment ◽  
Sexual Abuse Treatment

Childhood sexual abuse is a complex trauma with unique trauma-causing factors that could have devastating long-term, negative effects on survivors. To date, little attention has been given to loss and specifically stigmatized or hidden loss as a unique trauma-causing factor. Method: This article reports the findings of a scoping review designed to identify research exploring the losses associated with childhood sexual abuse in women survivors. A systematic search of databases for articles published between 1983 and 2019 were conducted using keywords related to loss and women survivors of childhood sexual abuse. Findings: Twenty studies were selected for review using predefined inclusion criteria: studies that include adult women survivors of childhood sexual abuse, studies that include child/childhood sexual abuse, studies that include stigmatized loss, studies that indicate stigmatized loss in adult women survivors of childhood sexual abuse. Sources were subject to quality appraisal and data were extracted in line with the review question. Discussion and Contribution: Findings acknowledged and extended on Bloom’s model of stigmatized loss and suggested that female survivors of childhood sexual abuse may experience an overall loss of self-efficacy, presenting as a loss of personal agency, interpersonal agency, and sexual agency. The results of this research suggest that loss be considered in support interventions with women self-reporting childhood sexual abuse. It is recommended that further research be conducted to confirm these findings so that they may advocate for inclusion in childhood sexual abuse treatment interventions.

Women Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse Interview Guide

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tracie L. Hitter ◽  
Eve M. Adams ◽  
Elizabeth J. Cahill
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Childhood Sexual Abuse ◽  
Women Survivors ◽  
Interview Guide

From May to November: A Six-Month Group for Women Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse

1999 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 495-506
Author(s):  
Danka Gordon ◽  
Suzanna Giles
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Childhood Sexual Abuse ◽  
Women Survivors ◽  
Analytic Model

The authors describe the setting up and running of a group in the NHS for survivors of sexual abuse. We discuss our experience of the group's development from a semi-structured framework toward a modified group-analytic model.

scholarly journals Counseling Adult Women Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse: Benefits of a Wellness Approach

2010 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Hodges ◽  
Jane Myers
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Childhood Sexual Abuse ◽  
Women Survivors ◽  
Therapeutic Interventions ◽  
Adult Women ◽  
Everyday Functioning ◽  
Psychological Healing ◽  
Strength Based ◽  
Counseling Interventions ◽  
Multiple Domains

Adult women survivors of childhood sexual abuse may face numerous lifelong challenges. Recommended therapeutic interventions for survivors assume that the process of reliving and exploring the abuse experience leads to psychological healing. Yet such therapeutic approaches may be traumatizing for both client and counselor, and seem to be somewhat limited in affecting change in the numerous areas of concern of many survivors. Strength-based wellness counseling interventions may help survivors develop coping skills to enhance both overall quality of life and everyday functioning across multiple domains, while also providing a healthy foundation from which to explore and reframe their abuse experiences. A case example demonstrates this approach.

scholarly journals Predicting Sexual Assault Revictimization in a Longitudinal Sample of Women Survivors: Variation by Type of Assault

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (12) ◽  
pp. 1462-1483 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Relyea ◽  
Sarah E. Ullman
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Childhood Sexual Abuse ◽  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Women Survivors ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Sexual Partners ◽  
Social Environments ◽  
Sexual Assault Survivors ◽  
Longitudinal Sample

This study used a large community sample of women sexual assault survivors to prospectively assess 17 theorized predictors across four types of sexual assault revictimization: unwanted contact, coercion, substance-involved assault (SIA), and force. Results indicated that predictors varied across types of revictimization: Unwanted contact and coercion appeared more common in social contexts more hostile toward survivors, whereas forcible assaults and SIAs occurred in circumstances where survivors were vulnerable to being targeted by perpetrators. Overall, the strongest predictors were social environments hostile to survivors, race, childhood sexual abuse, decreased refusal assertiveness, and having more sexual partners. We discuss implications for intervention and research.

The Contribution of Cognitive Strategies to the Resilience of Women Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse and Non-Abused Women

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (8) ◽  
pp. 993-1015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Avital Kaye-Tzadok ◽  
Bilha Davidson-Arad
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Childhood Sexual Abuse ◽  
Women Survivors ◽  
Sexually Abused ◽  
Cognitive Strategies ◽  
Abused Women ◽  
Financial Status ◽  
Posttraumatic Symptoms ◽  
Self Forgiveness

This study examines the contribution of four strategies—self-forgiveness, realistic control, unrealistic control, and hope—to the resilience of 100 women survivors of childhood sexual abuse (CSA), as compared with 84 non-sexually abused women. The findings show that CSA survivors exhibited lower resilience, lower self-forgiveness, lower hope, and higher levels of posttraumatic symptoms (PTS). They also indicate that resilience was explained by the participants’ financial status, PTS severity, and two cognitive strategies—self-forgiveness and hope. Finally, PTS and hope mediated the relation between CSA and resilience.

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