A Humanities-Therapy Approach to the Prevention of Sexual Violence - Based on the Bible -

2018 ◽  
Vol 57 ◽  
pp. 179-206
Author(s):  
Sung-Kyun Shin
2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 471-487 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Juliana Claassens ◽  
Amanda Gouws

This article seeks to reflect on the issue of sexual violence in the context of the twenty year anniversary of democracy in South Africa bringing together views from the authors’ respective disciplines of Gender and the Bible on the one hand and Political Science on the other. We will employ the Old Testament Book of Esther, which offers a remarkable glimpse into the way a patriarchal society is responsible for multiple levels of victimization, in order to take a closer look at our own country’s serious problem of sexual violence. With this collaborative engagement the authors contribute to the conversation on understanding and resisting the scourge of sexual violence in South Africa that has rendered a large proportion of its citizens voiceless.


2013 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald West

Exegesis in the traditional sense is concerned with generating as much (scientific) detail about a biblical text as possible. Whilst the two primary modes of biblical exegesis � socio-historical and literary-semiotic � do this differently, they share a common concern for the detail of the text as an ancient artefact. Critical distance is a key concept here, with the exegetes bracketing (for a moment) their own contexts and concerns. However, such bracketing is impossible to sustain, and so the exegetes� interests (shaped by their contexts and concerns) �leak� into the act of exegesis. Most exegetes today recognise this leakage, and whilst some still view such leakage as contaminating the exegesis, others, including the tradition of African biblical scholarship, actively identify the contextual concerns they bring to the task of exegesis, both respecting the detail of the text and desiring to be accountable to their contexts in which the Bible is a significant text. This article explored some of the dimensions of forms of exegesis that actively seek appropriation, using 2 Samuel 13:1�22 as an example. In this case, the article analysed the contextual shift from a focus on women as the victims of sexual violence to an emerging emphasis on masculinities. Reading the same text from these different contextual concerns �activates� particular details of the text, and so both draw on different elements of the text and thus guides the gaze of exegesis.


Author(s):  
Mariani Harmadi ◽  
Ruat Diana

Fenomena kekerasan dalam berpacaran bukan hanya terjadi di ruang tertutup atau pribadi saja melainkan sangat mudah ditemukan di ruang publik seperti halaman sekolah, tempat rental komputer, taman, trotoar, kendaraan umum, pada penumpang kendaraan roda dua di tengah lalu lintas. Dan ketika peristiwa itu berlangsung serta disaksikan oleh masyarakat umum, pelaku dan korban tidak merasa terganggu, rikuh, malu, atau berhenti. Padahal kekerasan dalam pacaran di kalangan remaja merupakan salah satu akses kepada kekerasan dalam rumah tangga, apabila hal ini tidak ditangani secara benar sebelum berkelanjutan dengan korban yang mengalami dampak pada fisik, psikis, sosial, moral, ekonomi dan masa depan generasi penerus. Metode yang digunakan adalah penelitian deskriptif dengan mengkaji fenomena kekerasan dalam pacaran dari sudut pandang Alkitab dan psikologi, dimana secara psikologis kekerasan seksual yang terjadi pada masa remaja berdampak negatif bagi pelaku maupun korban kekerasan seksual. Adapun kekerasan pada masa berpacaran dapat disebabkan karena remaja mengalami loncatan akibat gejolak hormon dan pesatnya teknologi informasi. Secara teologis hubungan seks sebelum menikah adalah tindakan merusak kehidupan para pelakunya dan kekerasan pada masa berpacaran merupakan tindakan yang bertentangan dengan konsep imago dei.  The phenomenon of dating violence does not only occur in closed or private spaces but is very easy to find in public spaces such as school yards, computer rental places, parks, sidewalks, public transportation, on two-wheeled vehicle passengers in the middle of traffic. And when the event took place and was witnessed by the general public, the perpetrators and victims did not feel disturbed, uncomfortable, embarrassed, or stopped. Whereas violence in courtship among adolescents is one access to domestic violence, if this is not handled properly before it is sustained with victims who have an impact on the physical, psychological, social, moral, economic and future generations. The method used is descriptive research by examining the phenomenon of dating violence from the perspective of the Bible and psychology, where psychologically sexual violence that occurs during adolescence has a negative impact on perpetrators and victims of sexual violence. The violence during dating can be caused by adolescents experiencing jumps due to hormone fluctuations and rapid information technology. Theologically sex before marriage is an act of destroying the lives of the perpetrators and violence during dating is an action that is contrary to the concept of Imago dei. 


2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-121
Author(s):  
Will Moore
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2009 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 72-78
Author(s):  
Rebecca L. Nelson Crowell ◽  
Julie Hanenburg ◽  
Amy Gilbertson

Abstract Audiologists have a responsibility to counsel patients with auditory concerns on methods to manage the inherent challenges associated with hearing loss at every point in the process: evaluation, hearing aid fitting, and follow-up visits. Adolescents with hearing loss struggle with the typical developmental challenges along with communicative challenges that can erode one's self-esteem and self-worth. The feeling of “not being connected” to peers can result in feelings of isolation and depression. This article advocates the use of a Narrative Therapy approach to counseling adolescents with hearing loss. Adolescents with hearing loss often have problem-saturated narratives regarding various components of their daily life, friendships, amplification, academics, etc. Audiologists can work with adolescents with hearing loss to deconstruct the problem-saturated narratives and rebuild the narratives into a more empowering message. As the adolescent retells their positive narrative, they are likely to experience increased self-esteem and self-worth.


2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-33
Author(s):  
James C. Blair

The concept of client-centered therapy (Rogers, 1951) has influenced many professions to refocus their treatment of clients from assessment outcomes to the person who uses the information from this assessment. The term adopted for use in the professions of Communication Sciences and Disorders and encouraged by The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) is patient-centered care, with the goal of helping professions, like audiology, focus more centrally on the patient. The purpose of this paper is to examine some of the principles used in a patient-centered therapy approach first described by de Shazer (1985) named Solution-Focused Therapy and how these principles might apply to the practice of audiology. The basic assumption behind this model is that people are the agents of change and the professional is there to help guide and enable clients to make the change the client wants to make. This model then is focused on solutions, not on the problems. It is postulated that by using the assumptions in this model audiologists will be more effective in a shorter time than current practice may allow.


Author(s):  
Edward Kessler
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