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Wilson, Jennifer L. (Jennifer Lyn). "Organizational Perceptions of Women's Vulnerability to Violence in the Wake of Disaster." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1995. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc277959/.

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Women as a group hold little power in the social system which increases women's vulnerability to domestic violence. According to Merton (1970), social problems may be revealed through the disaster recovery process. A coraHunity1s organizational response to social problems such as wife abuse depends upon organizational members' perceptions. The data suggest that organizational perceptions of domestic violence largely depend upon the setting or environment in which an organization exists and operates. A second factor that greatly determines an organization's perception of domestic violence after disaster is organizational type. Organizations which provide services to domestic violence victims pre-disaster are more likely to perceive domestic violence following disaster than organizations which do not provide domestic violence related services prior to disaster.

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Napoli, Amanda Diane Marsh Christopher. "An analysis of church social service and partnership following Hurricane Katrina." Waco, Tex. : Baylor University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/5286.

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Smith, Alexander. "ReLife : transitional housing for victims of natural disaster." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0003174.

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Smith, Alexander B. "ReLife: Transitional Housing for Victims of Natural Disaster." Scholar Commons, 2009. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/21.

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Recent natural disasters around the globe have left individuals without shelter. Governments have shown slow response for these victims with examples seen from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. People are still living in structures that are hazardous to their health, insufficient for normal day activity, and socially unacceptable. With the rising numbers of victims and the slow response of governments to provide solutions, a new typology must be designed. This thesis proposes a new typology that will create a responsive design that is efficient, aesthetic, environmentally conscious, and ready for implementation. Transitional housing can be defined as housing that is used during the rebuilding phase for the victims. It is not just an emergency shelter, but a structure that provides a return to normalcy for the victim. For the design to be efficient it must be easily constructed, shipped, and assembled on site. Aesthetic design, for the purpose of this project, refers to a typology that will be socially acceptable with the user and the surrounding community. Environmentally conscious design reflects energy independence and minimizing waste production. Design that is ready for implementation will include legislation that defines how what should be used for aid towards victims. With my interest in the efficiency of the construction of the project I intend to build a full scale model of the typology to exhaust all the requirements of construction. Research into design for manufacturing and fabrication will be conducted in order to obtain knowledge of the aspect of construction. In order to produce efficient shipping and assembly methods, companies that utilize these systems will be researched. To achieve aesthetic design, a study of contemporary architecture for small scale structures will be used and interaction with victims and communities will be established, as well as reviewing previous works designed for humanitarian aid. By studying technologies for household environmental sustainability, new concepts can be developed for use in this typology. Detailed focus on passing legislation that allows victims to access these properly designed shelters can prevent the use of substandard living facilities found in FEMA trailer communities.

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Joseph, Stephen A. "Attributions and emotional processing in victims of major disaster." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.327117.

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Ferrer-Carrasco, Maria Josefina. "Victims of crime in Venezuela rights and services." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/4834.

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Hsu, Hui-Shan. "Pastoral counseling from a Trinitarian perspective a case study of the September 21st earthquake in Taiwan /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2002. http://www.tren.com.

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Desmeules, Julie. "Conséquences des inondations de juillet 1996 sur les conditions de vie et la santé biopsychosociale des femmes /." Thèse, Chicoutimi : Hull : Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. Université du Québec à Hull, 2005. http://theses.uqac.ca.

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Thèse (M.Tr.Soc.) -- Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, programme en extension de l'Université du Québec en Outaouais, 2005.
Bibliogr.: f. [160]-180. Document électronique également accessible en format PDF. CaQCU

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Jobe, Alison. "Accessing services : trafficking victims'/survivors' experiences in the UK." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/118.

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This thesis explores the processes through which sexual trafficking is currently emerging as an identified, spoken about and acted upon social problem, and finds that a dominant story on sexual trafficking appears to be emerging in the UK. The thesis argues that this dominant story frequently fails to reflect the continuum of experience(s) lived, and thereafter recounted, by those women it concerns. As a result, policies and services are developed which are incapable of reflecting or meeting the needs of trafficked women’s multifarious experience(s). In this respect, the thesis explores the social consequences related to the telling of stories, as well as the social and cultural processes within which stories are and/or may be told (Plummer 1995). Through focusing upon trafficking victims’/survivors’ ability to seek and/or receive help and assistance in the UK context, the thesis finds that the dominance of one public narrative or story on sexual trafficking is problematic for trafficked women when accessing help and assistance, especially if their stories fail to “fit”. On the other hand, at other times, where women’s stories do “fit”, help and services have been accessed through the telling of the dominant sexual trafficking story. The thesis explores how these discourses interact and change over time where trafficked women encounter UK police officers and immigration officials, and when trafficked women apply for asylum to remain in the UK. Parallels have been drawn throughout the thesis with similar, and related, situations documented by feminist researchers where representations of prostitution, rape and/or intimate partner violence within legal or social frameworks are not reflective of the complexity of those realities (Hamner 1989; Kelly & Radford 1996; Lees 1996a 1996b; Self 2003; Stanko 2007).

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Ortiz, Ildefonso. "The state of protestant churches and their leadership in greater Homestead since Hurricane Andrew." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), access this title online, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.2986/tren.108-0021.

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Bhandhumani, Budtri Ay, and Sandra Lea Book. "Evaluating intervention services for perpetrators and victims of domestic violence." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2000. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1596.

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This study was to evaluate current agency programs that were available to aid victims of domestic violence and their effectiveness in reducing the long-term emotional state of victims. This study included participants from various Domestic Violence Programs located throughout San Bernardino, Riverside, and Los Angeles counties.

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McFarlane, A. "The psychiatric sequelae of a natural disaster : the 1983 Ash Wednesday bushfires /." Title page, contents and introduction only, 1990. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09MD/09mdm143.pdf.

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Weseman, Kathryn Elaine. "Pilot Texas Red Cross Virtual Disaster Health Services Model-Case Study." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/4577.

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The Red Cross traditional method of Disaster Health System (DHS) response is ' boots on the ground.' Texas, the 2nd largest state by population and land mass, has only 15 DHS volunteer nurses who were not able to meet the needs of disaster victims in Texas with the traditional response method. The Texas Red Cross DHS volunteer nurses began piloting a virtual DHS model in 2014. The research question was how Texas Red Cross nurses designed, developed, implemented, and evaluated the Texas Red Cross virtual DHS Model. The purpose of this case study was to provide this information in a case study. The research approach followed a single investigator case study design that utilized Roger's diffusion of innovations theory and Lewin's change theory to identify how this virtual pilot was created and implemented in Texas. The processes developed and utilized are provided in detail in this case study. Data maintained by the Texas DHS team from March, 2016 to March, 2017 provided evidence that all 1,724 cases assigned to the DHS team were worked and closed by a Texas DHS volunteer. A qualitative summary of nurses' satisfaction with this model was uniformly positive. This provided support for the use of the virtual model for communication to meet the disaster-related health needs of disaster victims in Texas. The use of a virtual model for disaster management supports positive social change in addressing the disaster-related health needs of disaster victims in Texas and for possible use by other Red Cross DHS stakeholders.

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Elliott, Ross W. "Measuring disaster preparedness of local emergency medical services agencies." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/5112.

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Emergency Medical Services (EMS) plays a key role in disaster response. Yet, determining how much preparedness is enough to achieve an acceptable level of preparedness is challenging. After conducting an extensive literature review, it is evident no nationally accepted method exists to evaluate an EMS system's level of disaster preparedness systematically. Research was conducted to define the skills and equipment that local emergency medical services agencies (LEMSA) or a similar entity needs to perform strategic disaster response duties and identify performance indicators for measuring preparedness. Using an appreciative inquiry approach, surveys and interviews of EMS personnel from across the nation were conducted. Interview questions focused on the positive aspects of each response with an effort to understand what might be possible in future events. Research subjects had first-hand experience in managing the EMS response during a disaster. Multiple types and sizes of events were studied. A framework for defining minimum standards for adequate disaster preparedness for LEMSAs is constructed, including core EMS disaster response roles; essential competencies; skills needed to perform the core roles; and tools or equipment used for core roles. Training strategies for developing experience, competencies, and skills are identified, and metrics listed for measuring the level of preparedness.

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Smith, Bryan E. "Training lay leaders of First Baptist Church of Van Buren to develop, organize, and lead a tornado crisis ministry." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2001. http://www.tren.com.

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Hovington, Chantal. "Les inondations de juillet 1996 au Saguenay : les effets psychologiques durables chez les adultes jeunes et âgés /." Thèse, Chicoutimi : Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 2002. http://www.uqtr.ca/biblio/notice/resume/17750961R.html.

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Mémoire (M.A.)-- Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 2002.
En tête du titre: Université du Québec, mémoire présenté à l'Université du Québec à Chicoutimi comme exigence partielle de la maîtrise en psychologie offerte à l'Université du Québec à Chicoutimi en vertu d'un protocole d'entente avec l'Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières. CaQTU Bibliogr.: f.90-99.

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Rupp, Laura Kay. "Disaster Preparedness of Rural Healthcare Providers." Diss., North Dakota State University, 2018. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/27460.

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The purpose of this project was to identify the current status of education/training of rural health care providers and identify gaps in training/education to better prepare rural providers to care for victims of disasters. A survey was conducted and distributed to 21 physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants employed at rural clinic/critical access hospital. The survey consisted of quantitative and fill in the blank questions. The survey was distributed through the electronic survey engine ?Qualtrics.? Participation in the survey was voluntary and responses were anonymous. The survey addressed/identified: basic demographic information, knowledge of disaster/emergency preparedness and care of victims as a first receiver, experience and education related to disasters/emergencies, perceptions of emergencies/disaster types most likely to impact their facility, future education/training preferences, and barriers to participation in disaster/emergency education/training. The survey also assessed the providers? comfort level with suggested disaster/emergency core competencies put forth from professional emergency/trauma organizations. The response rate to the survey was 57.14%. Of those that responded 41.67% reported experience in caring for victims of disaster. Participation in previous disaster education/training was reported by 83.3% and these same respondents were familiar with their role according to the facility?s Emergency Operations Manual (EOM). The providers perceived that natural disasters were most likely to affect their community (83.33%) in relation to events from the facility?s Hazard Vulnerability Analysis (HVA). Respondents that reported having not participated in disaster education/training indicated a lack of time and new employment as barriers. For future training 66.66% of those that responded would prefer hands on training and were willing to spend one hour per year on disaster training/education. In regard to their ability to care for disaster/emergency victims, participating providers considered themselves novice (25%), advanced beginner (25%), competent (16.67%), proficient (25%) and expert (8.33%). Overall, results indicate that most respondents had experience and are currently participating in education/training. However, the majority still consider themselves novice or advanced beginner in their ability to care for disaster/emergency victims. Most felt that there was little likelihood for most disaster events to occur in their community other than natural disasters.

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Elmhadhbi, Linda. "Ontology-driven services for interoperable multi-stakeholders operational disaster response." Thesis, Toulouse, INPT, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020INPT0022.

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La gestion opérationnelle de situations de crise nécessite, selon l’importance et l’étendue de la crise, la mobilisation rapide et la coordination des différents services de secours. Malheureusement, cette coordination interservices est un exercice très délicat du fait de la diversité des acteurs intervenant sur le terrain et de l’hétérogénéité des différentes organisations. Aujourd’hui, il y a un manque de coordination, l’information n’est que très peu partagée entre les acteurs opérationnels et la communication n’est pas formalisée. Ces inconvénients conduisent au dysfonctionnement des réponses aux situations de crise. Afin de mieux répondre aux situations de crise, nous proposons POLARISC, une plateforme interopérable de coordination interservices pour la gestion opérationnelle de catastrophes visualisant en temps réel le théâtre des opérations. L’objectif de POLARISC est d’aider à la décision quel que soit le niveau de commandement. Pour atteindre ces objectifs, le premier enjeu de cette thèse est de garantir une interopérabilité sémantique entre les différents acteurs métiers pour assurer l’échange et le partage des informations. À cet égard, l’idée est de formaliser sémantiquement les connaissances des acteurs métiers de la gestion opérationnelle à l’aide des ontologies. En effet, nous proposons une approche fédérée qui représente les données, les services, les processus et les métiers de chaque acteur. Nous avons modélisé les connaissances des acteurs de secours en développant une ontologie modulaire (POLARISCO) comportant un module ontologique pour chaque acteur de secours et intégré ces derniers pour proposer un vocabulaire partagé. L’utilisation des ontologies de haut niveaux et des ontologies intermédiaires, respectivement « Basic Formel Ontology » et « Common Core Ontologies », facilitent l’intégration de ces modules et de leurs mappings. Le deuxième enjeu est d’exploiter ces ontologies afin de diminuer l’ambigüité et d’éviter la mal interprétation des informations échangées. Par conséquent, nous proposons un service de messagerie appelé PROMES transformant sémantiquement le message envoyé par un acteur émetteur selon le module ontologique de l’acteur destinataire. En effet, PROMES se base sur l’ontologie POLARISCO et sert à enrichir sémantiquement le message pour éviter tout type d’ambiguïté. Le fonctionnement de PROMES est basé principalement sur deux algorithmes ; un algorithme de transformation textuelle, et par la suite, un algorithme de transformation sémantique. Ainsi, nous avons instancié l’ontologie POLARISCO avec des données réelles de la réponse aux attaques terroristes de Paris en 2015 afin d’évaluer l’ontologie et le service de messagerie. Le troisième et dernier enjeu est de proposer un service d’aide à la décision multicritère qui permet de proposer des stratégies d’évacuation des victimes après le lancement du plan blanc. L’objectif est de trouver les structures hospitalières les plus adaptées à l’état de la victime. Le choix de l’hôpital le plus approprié dépend de la durée du transport, et surtout de la disponibilité des ressources matérielles et humaines, de façon à prendre en charge les victimes le plus rapide que possible. Notre étude comprend deux étapes : la première étape consiste à développer un module ontologique qui associe à chaque pathologie les ressources indispensables pour une meilleure prise en charge des victimes selon leurs états. La deuxième étape consiste à développer un algorithme qui permet de vérifier la disponibilité des ressources nécessaires, calculer le temps d’attente pour que la victime soit prise en charge dans chaque hôpital et par la suite choisir l’hôpital le plus approprié
Disaster response is a highly collaborative and critical process that requires the involvement of multiple emergency responders (ERs) ideally working together under a unified command to enable a rapid and effective operational response. It is a challenging task mainly because of the heterogeneity of the involved stakeholders and the critical nature of such event. Various ERs from different organizations must work together toward a successful resolution of the disaster. According to ERs reports and feedbacks, it is apparent that inadequate communication and a lack of information sharing among the ERs engaged on-site can adversely affect disaster response efforts. Within this context, we propose POLARISC, an interoperable inter-services software solution for reliable and timely information sharing for the operational management of large-scale disasters. The focus is on offering to all ERs a real-time operation picture of the situation in order to ensure effective collaboration and coordination among stakeholders. Accordingly, the first objective of this work is to capture the semantics of ERs knowledge. To do so, we propose an ontology that defines the knowledge of French emergency response doctrine, providing a shared vocabulary that covers a variety of interoperability concerns including data, services, processes, and business of each stakeholder. Because the diversity of ERs’ vocabularies was bound, naturally, to complicate the design of the ontology, we adopted the principle of modularization. The idea is to develop separate ontological modules, one for each stakeholder. Furthermore, we used the upper-level ontology Basic Formal Ontology, as well as the suite of Common Core Ontologies, which serve as a suite of mid-level ontologies for our ontology modules. The use of upper-level ontologies facilitates the alignment among the different ontological modules and promotes data interoperability. Once the modular ontology POLARISCO is developed, we defined the mapping between the different modules. One strong point of the adopted ontological approach is that POLARISCO is tested by means of real data and validated by stakeholders and emergency experts. The second objective is to exploit the proposed ontology in order to guarantee a shared and semantically unambiguous information exchange across ERs. To do so, we propose an ontologybased messaging service, namely PROMES, performing the semantic translation of the information to be exchanged. Each stakeholder will receive the message according to his own vocabulary and with his own semantics. The semantic transformation of the message is based on the mapping that exists among stakeholders modules as defined in POLARISCO. PROMES is based on two algorithms; a textual transformation algorithm and then a semantic transformation algorithm. Using PROMES, it becomes possible for two ERs from different organizations to communicate meaningfully and with less ambiguity. To evaluate the proposed approach, POLARISCO is instantiated using real data of the 11/13 Paris terrorist attacks. The third and final objective is to propose a multi-criteria decision support service that supports ERs during victims’ evacuation. The aim is to find the most appropriate healthcare institution according to the victims’ states. The selection of the hospital depends, on the transport time, and on the availability of the needed resources including materials and staff. To do so, we propose, first, an ontological module that associates to each pathology the needed resources. Then, we propose an algorithm to check the availability of those resources, calculate the waiting time to receive medical care in each hospital, and then select the most appropriate hospital

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Thunberg, Sara. "Who Cares? : A Study of the Social Services’ Responsibility for Crime Victims." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för juridik, psykologi och socialt arbete, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-29614.

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The Swedish Social Services Act (2001:453) states that crime victims should be a priority group for the social services and that they have a responsibility to ensure that victims receive the needed help and support. The aim with this study was to examine how the Swedish municipal social services fulfil their responsibility for the psychosocial wellbeing of crime victims, by examining the collaboration between Victim Support and the social services. Interviews were conducted with crime victims, crime victim coordinators and social workers. The social services have an overall responsibility for the psy-chosocial support to crime victims. However, the study show that in reality the social services, in many cases, do not provide this help and support, as there is a view that it is not their responsibility. Instead, the victims are referred to various support organisations such as Victim Support, without really knowing what kind of support they are offering. Furthermore, the social services in some mu-nicipalities argue that there is no opportunity for them to collaborate with Victim Support due to con-fidentiality, even though it is possible in other municipalities. Through collaboration resources can be saved, and knowledge and awareness of the victims’ needs can be increased. This can eventually lead to that victims’ receive better care, which can result in shorter recovery time for crisis that may have occurred due to the experience of crime.
I socialtjänstlagen (2001:453) framgår att brottsoffer ska vara en prioriterad grupp för socialtjänsten och att de har ansvar för att se till att brottsoffer får hjälp och stöd. Syftet med denna studie var att un-dersöka hur socialtjänsten uppfyller sitt ansvar för det psykosociala stödet till brottsoffer, genom att undersöka samverkan mellan socialtjänsten och Brottsofferjouren. Studien genomförs genom intervju-er med brottsoffersamordnare, socialsekreterare och brottsoffer. Det framkommer att socialtjänsten, enligt socialtjänstlagen, har det övergripande ansvaret för det psykosociala stödet till brottsoffer. Re-sultatet från studien visar dock att socialtjänsten i många fall inte ger hjälp och stöd till brottsoffer, då det finns ett synsätt att de inte har ansvar för detta. Istället hänvisas brottsoffren till olika stödorganisa-tioner såsom Brottsofferjouren, utan att socialtjänsten har någon djupare kunskap om vad dessa orga-nisationer erbjuder för stöd. Vidare menar socialtjänsten i vissa kommuner att det inte finns någon möjlighet att samverka med Brottsofferjouren på grund av sekretess, trots att andra kommuner kan göra det. Samverkan kan vara ett bra sätt att spara resurser, samtidigt som kunskapen och medveten-heten kring brottsoffers behov ökar. Detta kan på sikt göra att brottsoffer får ett bättre omhänderta-gande, vilket i sin tur kan resultera i kortare återhämtningstider efter den kris som kan ha uppstått i samband med brottsupplevelsen.

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Van, Zyl Ann-Marie. "Social welfare services offered at shelters to female victims of domestic violence." Thesis, Link to the online version, 2008. http://etd.sun.ac.za/jspui/handle/10019/1630.

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Frazier, Walter Lee. "Coping strategies among religiously committed survivors of Hurricane Katrina in the state of Mississippi." Diss., Mississippi State : Mississippi State University, 2009. http://library.msstate.edu/etd/show.asp?etd=etd-03182009-100857.

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Yamanouchi, Tomoko. "Factors Associated with Worsened or Improved Mental Health in the Great East Japan Earthquake survivors." Kyoto University, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/232480.

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McCraw, Steven Elliot. "Availability, utilization, and perceived benefits of treatment services for secondary victims of sexual assault." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2002. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2064.

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The purpose of this study was to examine and identify the current availability, utilization, and perceived benefits of treatment services for secondary victims (i.e. family members/significant others of sexual assault victims).

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PERONA, JANNE ELIZABETH. "EQUALIZING THE RIGHTS OF VICTIMS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF VICTIM SERVICES ACROSS ARIZONA." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/192202.

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Beck-Hummel, Suzanne M. "A policies and procedures manual for the operations of Crime Victims Council of the Lehigh Valley, Inc." Instructions for remote access. Click here to access this electronic resource. Access available to Kutztown University faculty, staff, and students only, 1993. http://www.kutztown.edu/library/services/remote_access.asp.

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Thesis (M.P.A.)--Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, 1993.
Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, page: 2930. Abstract precedes thesis as [3] preliminary leaves. Typescript. Includes bibliographical references.

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Gall, Stacy L. "Identifying ways of enhancing the psychological functioning in victims of sexual offences from clinical and justice system management perspectives." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2004. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/770.

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Research efforts in the field of sexual victimisation have traditionally focussed on identifying ways to increase reporting rates. While reporting rates still remain low with estimates in the 10-15% vicinity (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 1996; Australian Institute of Criminology. 2000), there is thought to have been an increase and stabilisation of reporting rates in recent years (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 1998, 2002; Roberts & Gebotys, 1992). Brought on by this increase and stabilisation of reporting rates, is a need to expand the research focus to include the effective management of victims of sexual offences. Management can take place on two main levels: on a c1inical1evel (for those who access support services) and on a justice system level (for those who report to the police). The purpose of this research was to examine the circumstances of 132 women and men who had been victims of sexual offences at some time in their lives, from both clinical and justice system perspectives. This was achieved by combining quantitative and qualitative methodologies to examine the complex nature of participants' psychological functioning, and the interaction between indicators of their psychological functioning and various dynamic and static predictor variables. Multiple regression analyses indicated that between 48% and 73% of the variance in the four indicators of psychological functioning (depression, anxiety, posttraumatic stress, and self-esteem) was accounted for with the predictors. Dynamic variables including frequent rumination of why the offence occurred, shame-proneness, perceived control, and coping strategies were consistently more strongly related to outcome measures than the static variables. These findings provide a basis for optimism regarding clinical and justice system interventions with people who have experienced sexual offences, since dynamic factors are inherently modifiable. Practical implications that allow justice and clinical management efforts to focus on the high-impact areas identified in this research are discussed. Current psychological functioning did not differ between victims who had reported their offences to the police and those who had not, though several key themes were identified by victims in terms of therapeutic and anti-therapeutic elements of the Justice System process. From a therapeutic jurisprudence perspective, these experiences are valuable in being able to guide those who work with victims of sexual offences within the Justice System. Further, reasons why some participants reported their victimisation to the police and others did not, along with participants’ personal definitions of justice, may provide useful indications as to how the justice system may better meet the needs of victims of sexual offences.

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Simard, Nathalie. "Relation entre les stratégies d'adaptation et les manifestations post-traumatiques et dépressives des sinistrés des inondations de juillet 1996 au Saguenay /." Thèse, Chicoutimi : Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 2000. http://theses.uqac.ca.

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Mémoire (M.Ps.)--Université du Québec, 2000.
En tête du titre: Université du Québec, mémoire présenté à l'Université du Québec à Chicoutimi comme exigence partielle de la maîtrise en psychologie offerte à l'Université du Québec à Chicoutimi en vertu d'un protocole d'entente avec l'Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières. CaQCU Document électronique également accessible en format PDF. CaQCU

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Trubits, Ryan J. "The Needs and Resources of International Torture Survivors Living in the Dallas Fort Worth (DFW) Metroplex: an Investigation of Healing and Assimilation Perceived by Center for Survivors of Torture’s Clients and Staff As Well As the Greater Resettlement Community." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2015. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc804872/.

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Torture survivors find difficulty navigating through an unfamiliar healthcare and social service system. Many survivors who already face Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), anxiety, and depression also endure a secondary threat which leads to re-traumatization through the struggles of acculturation. The aim of this study is to determine: 1. Identify differences and assumptions between service providers’ and clients’ definitions of self-sufficiency; 2. Examine prominent barriers to self-sufficiency that survivors encounter; 3. Pinpoint the survival strategies that survivors use in order to cope with life in DFW; 4. Determine what resources CST staff, area service providers, and survivors feel need to be improved for CST and the DFW metroplex.

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Dreher, Judith A. "Victim's rights compliance efforts a review of the federal bureau of prisons /." Instructions for remote access. Click here to access this electronic resource. Access available to Kutztown University faculty, staff, and students only, 2000. http://www.kutztown.edu/library/services/remote_access.asp.

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Thesis (M.P.A.)--Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, 2000.
Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, page: 2939. Typescript. Abstract precedes thesis title page as 2 preliminary leaves. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 89-92).

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Paul, Avijit. "Identifying relevant information for emergency services from twitter in response to natural disaster." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2015. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/89220/1/Avijit_Paul_Thesis.pdf.

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This project proposes a framework that identifies high‐value disaster-based information from social media to facilitate key decision-making processes during natural disasters. At present it is very difficult to differentiate between information that has a high degree of disaster relevance and information that has a low degree of disaster relevance. By digitally harvesting and categorising social media conversation streams automatically, this framework identifies highly disaster-relevant information that can be used by emergency services for intelligence gathering and decision-making.

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Aidoo, Davina. "Hidden hurts, healing from within : restorative justice for victims and convicted offenders in Bermuda." Thesis, London Metropolitan University, 2016. http://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/1139/.

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This thesis sought to explore how restorative justice (RJ) could be implemented into the Bermuda Department of Corrections using action research. The aim was to explore how RJ can work for victims and incarcerated offenders in Bermuda in regards to the potential for reduction of harm, increasing empathy and as an addition to the existing CJS. Training was provided and partnerships established with the Bermuda Police Service and Prison Fellowship Bermuda for the specific purpose of the initiative. Phase-one involved the introduction of two prerequisite programmes (Victim Empathy and the Sycamore Tree) that offenders were invited to voluntarily participate in. Respectively, one programme delivered by Corrections staff and consisting of only prisoners and the other delivered by Prison Fellowship facilitators and involving 16 surrogate victim-participants. A mixed-method approach was used to examine impact and process. These included questionnaires pre and post the phase-one programmes and the CRIME-PICS II psychometric to assess attitudinal change, participatory and non-participatory observations and a focus group. Both programmes increased the offenders’ empathy while the Sycamore Tree programme involving participants from the community, helped create further positive attitudinal change on the main scales measured by the CRIME-PICS II. 93% of the Sycamore Tree victim-participants were ‘very satisfied’ overall and ‘would definitely’ recommend the programme to others. Qualitative findings indicated victim healing, with some referring to a sense of closure and forgiveness for themselves and the offender. The second-phase introduced RJ conferencing, two conferences were held and the experience of participants was again very positive. The offenders considered trained conference facilitators from the Police and Corrections as being impartial. Overall benefits for both parties (offenders and victims) indicated a promising start to the initiative. A number of previous findings from empirical research were found in the current study. Victims valued having a voice and rehabilitation; and offenders valued the ‘victim’s forgiveness and reintegration’. The social interconnectedness of Bermuda creates a need for RJ as the stigmatization of criminality often extends beyond the offender to include their family. The pilot indicated the need in some cases for reparatory preparation work with offenders and their families before the offender feels comfortable, or able to call upon family members as conference supporters. Further the importance of community lay in the fact that the likelihood of victims coming into contact with the person who offended against them, once released is virtually inevitable. The success of the action research pilot led to the Department of Corrections adopting the initiative and continuing with it and produced nine trained facilitators. The content of the Sycamore Tree Project was superior as a phase-one prerequisite programme to RJ conferencing; however, an adaption to the programme would be needed to reduce the strong religious content. Victims and offenders benefitted from the initiative.

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Tambo, Prisca. "Challenges in accessing health care support services encountered by rape victims in Khomas region, Namibia." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/74738.

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Domestic violence is an endemic problem in Namibia and may be the most underreported form of violence against women and men, girls and boys residing in the country [Ministry of Health and Social Services (MoHSS), 2014:295]. Domestic violence, takes many forms, including physical aggression (hitting, kicking, biting, shoving, restraining, slapping, or throwing objects) as well as threats, rape, other forms of sexual and emotional abuse, controlling or domineering behaviours, intimidation, stalking, and passive or covert abuse (e.g., neglect or economic deprivation). Victims of rape and gender-based violence (GBV), however appear to face significant challenges in accessing healthcare support services. It is against this background that this study was conducted. The main goal of this study is to explore and describe the challenges faced by survivors of rape in the Khomas region of Namibia in accessing health and support services. The study utilised a qualitative research approach, which was applied research, as it focused on problems faced in the practice of identifying and seeking to address the challenges faced by rape survivors in the process of trying to heal from the trauma of rape. The phenomenological design was deemed appropriate for this study since it dealt with some sensitive issues regarding personal experiences of violence and reaction to it. The study was therefore exploratory and descriptive in nature an unstructured one-onone interviews were used to collect data. Findings from the study showed that rape survivors in the Khomas region of Namibia face many challenges in accessing healthcare support services which relate to the problems that they face as a result of the rape, as well as to the nature of support that they get from healthcare centres, the police, the community as well as their socioeconomic circumstances. Close collaboration is required between relevant stakeholders such as healthcare workers, police, communities, the legal justice system and policy makers. This will assist in the development of more effective policies and the building systems and institutions that are more effective in offering support to survivors of rape. It is therefore recommended that service delivery to support survivors of rape be improved in such a way that it becomes more accessible and survivor friendly.
Mini Dissertation (MSW (Healthcare))--University of Pretoria, 2019.
Social Work and Criminology
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Frerichs, Gundrun. "Balancing recognition and disrespect recovery as the process of identity formation : a New Zealand study of how services shape recovery from sexual abuse : a thesis submitted to Auckland University of Technology in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), 2007 /." Click here to access this resource online, 2007. http://aut.researchgateway.ac.nz/handle/10292/344.

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Santos, Gabriel A. "Oh, when the state comes marching in the theopolitics of disaster in sociological perspective /." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file 1.70 Mb., 342 p, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdlink?did=1176554841&Fmt=7&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Lee, Tak-yum David. "Victims of sexual offences in the criminal justice process with special references to the situation in Hong Kong." Thesis, Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 1994. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/HKUTO/record/B36195108.

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Berkowitz, Leah E. "A homicide in the family the dual perspective of mothers' experience parenting and use of community resources & community providers' report on services utilized by mothers and their children : a project based upon an independent investigation /." Click here for text online. Smith College School for Social Work website, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10090/967.

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Thesis (M.S.W.)--Smith College School for Social Work, Northampton, Mass., 2007
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Moravick, Suzanne Marie. "Factors Involved in the Retention of American Red Cross Disaster and Emergency Services Volunteers." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2745.

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According to the Corporation for National and Community Service (2007), 33% of workers who volunteer in one year do not volunteer the next year. Retention of disaster and emergency services volunteers is a problem because permanent disaster volunteers save governments and society millions of dollars each year. The purpose of this quantitative, cross-sectional study was to address the problem of retention of American Red Cross disaster and emergency services volunteers. The primary research question for this study examined the predictive strength of positive emotions, resiliency, coping, and post-traumatic growth, in the retention of disaster and emergency services volunteers. The broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions combined with the organismic valuing theory of growth through adversity created the optimal research foundation for driving the hypotheses for the research question. This study used a self-report survey to collect data from a nonprobability convenience sample of 120 American Red Cross Disaster and Emergency Services volunteers. Standard multiple linear regression analyses revealed that none of the independent variables statistically predicted retention. Independent-groups t-tests revealed that, a debriefing at the disaster location showed significant mean differences when examining retention. The American Red Cross and other disaster relief organizations can use the results of this study to develop strategies to address organizational factors that enhance the experiences of their disaster and emergency services volunteers and thus strive to improve retention.

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Lozano, Yvonne M. "Domestic Violence Shelters in Texas: Responding to Programming Needs of Older Victims of Intimate Partner Violence." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2010. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc33183/.

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This study examined if domestic violence shelters in Texas are responding to the needs of older female victims of intimate partner violence. Data for this study was collected through online questionnaire surveys of 45% of Texas domestic violence shelters. Findings of this study indicated that less than 10% of Texas shelters are providing specialized programming for older victims of IPV. In Texas, the demographic growth of older adults has remained comparable to increased national trends. The state of Texas will face several policy implications and social issues related to an older population that is rapidly growing. This includes, the importance of addressing certain members of an aging population who continue to fall victim to domestic violence. Furthermore, an unchanged resource of safety for victims of IPV is domestic violence shelters. Therefore, this study challenges current domestic violence shelter policies to address this issue of a rapidly growing segment of the Texas population. This study found less than 10% of shelters in Texas, who participated in this study, were providing specialized programming and outreach for older victims. Important practical implications for domestic violence shelter programming in Texas is provided.

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Konistan, Rita. "The effects of secondary trauma on professionals working with victims and survived traumatized individuals." Thesis, London Metropolitan University, 2017. http://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/1191/.

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Research on secondary traumatisation suggests that there is a certain overlap in terminologies used in the literature that are related to the concept of secondary traumatic stress. These interchangeable concepts include vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue, burnout and countertransference. The main aims of the current study are to investigate the differences between various terms associated with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) including secondary traumatic stress, compassion fatigue and burnout. The present research also aims to investigate the impact (direct and indirect influences) of secondary trauma on professionals working with victims and survived traumatized individuals. It was predicted that health workers who are exposed to psychological or physical traumas would experience secondary traumatic stress. In addition, it was also hypothesized that there would be gender differences in the intensity of secondary traumatic stress reactions. Longer years of employment were predicted to relate to lower levels of secondary traumatic stress. Furthermore, the profession would moderate the relationship between years of employment and secondary traumatic stress. A sample of 210 professional staff, working in several hospitals and private clinics, and representing health and social care councils in London, United Kingdom completed four self-reported questionnaires measuring secondary traumatic stress. Several hypotheses were postulated and tested using correlation and hierarchical regression analyses. The results showed that a majority of professionals working with traumatized patients displayed symptoms related to secondary traumatic stress, in particular those professionals new to the field. However, a greater reduction in symptoms was observed the longer an individual had spent in the profession. This finding has suggested years of experience may help professionals employ resiliency against severe traumatic events. Other interesting findings reported in this study suggested that females are inclined to experience higher secondary traumatic stress symptoms than males, regardless of years of experience. The reported findings seem to be consistent with previously undertaken research (Figley 1995; Miller and McGowen 2000; Robinson 2003; Sonneck and Wagner 1996; Stamm 2000). It should be emphasized here that extra care, attention and support are essential to new healthcare providers, especially during their first year of work. Researchers also need to develop intervention programmes that will assist healthcare providers in their vital work in trauma care settings – recognizing and dealing with the early stages of secondary stress symptoms and reactions is of the utmost importance.

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Pourvali, Mahsa. "Resilience of Cloud Networking Services for Large Scale Outages." Scholar Commons, 2017. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6664.

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Cloud infrastructure services are enabling organizations and enterprises to outsource a wide range of computing, storage, and networking needs to external service providers. These offerings make extensive use of underlying network virtualization, i.e., virtual network (VN) embedding, techniques to provision and interconnect customized storage/computing resource pools across large network substrates. However, as cloud-based services continue to gain traction, there is a growing need to address a range of resiliency concerns, particularly with regards to large-scale outages. These conditions can be triggered by events such as natural disasters, malicious man-made attacks, and even cascading power failures. Overall, a wide range of studies have looked at network virtualization survivability, with most efforts focusing on pre-fault protection strategies to set aside backup datacenter and network bandwidth resources. These contributions include single node/link failure schemes as well as recent studies on correlated multi-failure \disaster" recovery schemes. However, pre-fault provisioning is very resource-intensive and imposes high costs for clients. Moreover this approach cannot guarantee recovery under generalized multi-failure conditions. Although post-fault restoration (remapping) schemes have also been studied, the effectiveness of these methods is constrained by the scale of infrastructure damage. As a result there is a pressing need to investigate longer-term post-fault infrastructure repair strategies to minimize VN service disruption. However this is a largely unexplored area and requires specialized consideration as damaged infrastructures will likely be repaired in a time-staged, incremental manner, i.e., progressive recovery. Furthermore, more specialized multicast VN (MVN) services are also being used to support a range of content distribution and real-time streaming needs over cloud-based infrastructures. In general, these one-to-many services impose more challenging requirements in terms of geographic coverage, delay, delay variation, and reliability. Now some recent studies have looked at MVN embedding and survivability design. In particular, the latter contributions cover both pre-fault protection and post-fault restoration methods, and also include some multi-failure recovery techniques. Nevertheless, there are no known efforts that incorporate risk vulnerabilities into the MVN embedding process. Indeed, there is a strong need to develop such methods in order to reduce the impact of large-scale outages, and this remains an open topic area. In light of the above, this dissertation develops some novel solutions to further improve the resiliency of the network virtualization services in the presence of large outages. Foremost, new multi-stage (progressive) infrastructure repair strategies are proposed to improve the post-fault recovery of VN services. These contributions include advanced simulated annealing metaheuristics as well as more scalable polynomial-time heuristic algorithms. Furthermore, enhanced \risk-aware" mapping solutions are also developed to achieve more reliable multicast (MVN) embedding, providing a further basis to develop more specialized repair strategies in the future. The performance of these various solutions is also evaluated extensively using custom-developed simulation models.

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Croll, Marie C. "Narratives of sexually abused women in reflexive therapy : intra-personal and public versions of self." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/2621.

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This thesis examines the therapeutic narratives of sexually abused women. It is based on four in-depth case studies and my experience in counselling hundreds of other women. Two opening chapters outline the methodological and theoretical basis upon which these stories have come to be presented. These accounts unfold through a therapeutic facilitation which has been informed by feminist and narrative therapies, Jungian dream analysis, and a vast array of sexual abuse and related literature. My written translation of these experiences, on the other hand, has been shaped greatly by sociological argument. The foremost of these include feminist standpoint theory, reflexive transformation, and symbolic interaction. The bringing together of these fields serves to create two additional and sometimes conflicting voices - therapist and researcher - which are heard in and around the voices of my clients. The main body of the thesis develops, in storied form, clients' attempts to define and reintegrate themselves following sexual violations in light of a lack of self-authority, fears around voicing their trauma, fragmented memories, disassociation from their own language and symbolism, and a general sense of personal invalidity. In the face of these and other obstacles the therapeutically facilitated accounts bring to the fore unique and creative strategies for integrating these similarly dehumanizing experiences. Each narrative also speaks clearly of the need for a perspective outside of the client which will, in reflecting it back to her, hopefully disarm some of its horror for her and eventually allow it to be integrated by her. In addition, popular therapeutic discourse on sexual abuse has inadvertently served to silence many of my clients by removing them from this experience through a reconstruction of it for them in a theory and language that falls short of capturing its essence. These narrative reconstructions alternatively dispense with those and other descriptions of the client's trauma in favour of internally produced symbols and associations. Just as the sexual abuse narrative needs a discourse into which it can flow in order for it to be heard, it needs also to first be made right at the intra-personal level before it can be widely shared. Within the context of this thesis the therapist has mediated the client's story while the sociologist has sought and amplified its social significance.

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Blackburn, Nerina June. "Psychologists' perceived influences of early strategies on the psychosocial response to those affected by disasters." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/1416.

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Currently some confusion exists as to how health professionals should best respond to the psychological needs of those affected by disasters. Some have argued that early psychological intervention is essential and others have argued that early formal psychological interventions have no useful role in post trauma response. This study highlights the importance of considering both counselling and non-counselling factors as potentially influencing the psychosocial response of disaster victims. Although posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is not the only mental disorder that can develop as a result of exposure to disasters, it is probably the most frequent and debilitating psychological disorder associated with traumatic stress. In this exploratorydescriptive study the researcher aimed to explore and describe psychologists’ perceived influences of early strategies on the psychosocial response to those affected by disaster. The researcher used non-probability snowball sampling to access participants. The sample consisted of 5 participants. Semi structured interviews were conducted. Content analysis was used to analyse the data obtained from interviews. Results that emerged from the data suggest that there are many factors that influence the psychosocial response to those affected by disasters. These factors include the screening process, needs of survivors, the method of choice for treatment, the timing of intervention, pharmacology, the South African context, training and planning. The study makes a contribution to the growing knowledge of early strategies in response to those affected by disasters.

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Van, Niekerk Zaidah. "A Rape Crisis Cape Town Trust counselling skills course :a qualitative evaluation." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2006. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_9929_1183988333.

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Rape Crisis Cape Town Trust is an organisation that trains and supervises a team of women counsellors who provide a counselling service to women rape survivors. The aim of this study was to explore the experiences of the counsellors and the counselling co-ordinator regarding their perceptions on whether the training provided by the personal growth and counselling skills course is adequate in dealing with rape and its complexities.

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Ledesma, Andreana D. "Risk factors associated with child abuse and mitigating services : a conceptual framework /." View online, 2007. http://ecommons.txstate.edu/arp/264/.

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Greaves, Pauline. "Victims of violent crimes study of victim services in Ottawa and their treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/5303.

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Davis, Mildred Ann. "Understanding Sexual Assault Survivors' Willingness to Participate in the Judicial System." PDXScholar, 2014. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2094.

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This dissertation examined the relationship between support services for adult survivors of sexual assault and judicial outcomes. Specifically, this study explored survivors' willingness to participate in the judicial process. Although "victim unwilling to participate" is the primary reason given by the police for cases not progressing to prosecution, we know little about most aspects of survivors' willingness to participate in the judicial process, especially beyond initial reporting of the assault. The steps to prosecution are dependent on one another yet a survivor's willingness to participate in these steps is a fluid process. The primary research question explored was Are there clusters of survivors according to their responses to specific items on a Willingness to Participate scale? Additional research questions focused on differences among possible clusters of survivors. A semi-structured interview protocol was completed with 46 survivors of adult sexual assault. Cluster analysis was conducted and three clusters emerged. Findings suggest that support services were helpful to those who were highly willing to participate but that willingness was insufficient to influence judicial outcomes. Future research concerning judicial outcomes in sexual assault cases should focus on strategies to dispel myths about rape among survivors, within the judicial system, and with potential jurors as a means of improving both survivor participation and judicial outcomes.

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Dubois, Mathieu. "Validation d'un modèle d'adaptation psychologique aux pertes de ressources auprès de sinistrés des inondations de juillet 1996 au Saguenay." Chicoutimi : Trois-Rivières : Université du Québec à Chicoutimi ; Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1522/17844645.

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Thèse (M.Ps.) -- Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 2004.
"Mémoire de maîtrise présenté à l'Université du Québec à Chicoutimi comme exigence partielle de la maîtrise en psychologie offerte à l'Université du Québec à Chicoutimi en vertu d'un protocole d'entente avec l'Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières." Comprend des réf. bibliogr. : f. [123]-143. Document électronique également accessible en format PDF.

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Olusegun, Adefolalu Adegoke. "Delayed disclosure of sexual violence incidents among victims in Newcastle, Kwazulu-Natal." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2010. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_5849_1298535106.

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The aim of this study was to identify factors associated with reporting incidents of sexual violence after seventy-two hours at the sexual assault service centre in Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal. This descriptive study was based on retrospective analysis of 534 medical records of victims of sexual violence at the Newcastle hospital between 2005 and 2009. A data collection sheet was designed to extract information from three sources namely: the victimsâ hospital files, J88 forms and specific hospital forms that were completed for sexual assault victims. The collected data were entered into and processed for analysis using EPI INFO statistical package. Frequencies, means and standard deviations were calculated for the data set. Test of significance was also done using the Chi-square test and presented using odds ratios with 95% CI and p-value of <
0.05. The victimsâ age range was 2-81years (mean= 18.84, &sigma
=13.25). Approximately 87% were female and 59.4% of the victims were aged 0-17 years. One in five victims (19.7%) was HIV positive, and most (74.4%) reported rape with vaginal penetration. Fifty-nine percent reported within 72 hours of being assaulted. The most common reason for delayed reporting (21.5%) was fear of the perpetrator. Most of the sexual assaults were committed by male (96%) and single perpetrator (90%). Nearly a third (32.4%) of the sexual violence occurred within intimate relationships and more than two-thirds (68%) knew the perpetrators. In all, 35% sustained injuries during the assault and a third (34.5%) reported the use of weapons during the assault. Nearly half of the victims (48.7%) were referred to hospital by their relatives who also accompanied them to the facility (42.1%). Of the 198 victims that were offered post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP), 87% collected the full 28-day course.

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Taylor, Leslie Katherine. "The Feasibility and Idiographic Evaluation of School-Based Trauma-Focused Intervention Services in the Wake of Disaster." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2010. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1151.

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Youth traumatized by natural disasters report high levels of posttraumatic stress as well as other types of impairing emotional distress symptoms (e.g., anxiety and depression) for many years post-trauma. Implementing school based screening and treatment programs for these youth eliminates barriers to traditional treatment settings and may provide symptom relief. The current study examines the feasibility of conducting school-based trauma-focused treatment program in the wake of disaster. Idiographic evaluation of the treatment process is incorporated into the treatment evaluation through use of multiple baseline design. Youth reporting at least severe levels of posttraumatic stress on the PTSD-RI were recruited for an expanded assessment and treatment (youth ages 8-13; N=6). Treatment (i.e., the StArT program) consisted of 10-weekly individual sessions during which different cognitive behavioral components were introduced. Youth were assessed at pre-treatment, weekly during treatment, and at post-treatment. Quantitative and qualitative findings relative to youth responses to intervention are presented and discussed in terms of the feasibility of conducting treatment in school settings and in terms of individual difference factors contributing to treatment responses. Findings from this study suggest the feasibility of school based interventions through the aid of school counselors and integration of treatment sessions into the school schedule. Youth responses to the intervention were very positive, point toward the efficacy of a disaster trauma focused cognitive behavioral therapy (the StArT program), and help to highlight particularly useful modules in youth.

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Puur, Maria. "Behind Closed Doors. A Study on Swedish Authorities' Perceptions on Gender of Offenders and Victims of Intimate Partner Violence." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle (HS), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-24720.

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Intimate partner violence is a global issue that occur in both opposite and same-sex relationships, with both male and female offenders, but also with male and female victims. The police and social services are the two main authorities in Sweden to evaluate the situation of intimate partner violence, identify the offender, examine the probability of future violence, and to provide victim support. The purpose of this paper is to investigate Swedish authorities' perceptions regarding intimate partner violence from a gender perspective, using an experimental vignette technique. The study examines the perception of stereotypical and non-stereotyped gender and gender roles through various constructs and aims to explore how offenders and victims of intimate partner violence is perceived by police employees and social workers. The participants age, gender, education background, and work experience of intimate partner violence is also analysed in combination with variances of perception regarding offender and victim culpability, offender risk and the severity of the incident. The result of the study follows previous literature where male-to-female intimate partner violence is perceived as more severe, and male offenders as more culpable, though the differences are minor. Further does this study indicate only small differences between perceptions of gender between police employees and social workers.

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