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Nguyen, My Linh Thi. "Health consequences of child and adult sexual abuse /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2002. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe16613.pdf.
Full textBode, Andrew. "The Nature, Context and Implications of Child Sexual Abuse on the Educational Achievement, Development and Opportunities for Children in Queensland Orphanages from the 1940s to the 1960s." Thesis, Griffith University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366996.
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Allred, Robert P. "Clergy Sexual Abuse." NSUWorks, 2015. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/cps_stuetd/82.
Full textSmith, Christa M. "Sexual cognitions of childhood sexual abuse survivors /." View online, 2008. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211131464745.pdf.
Full textLyons, Jennifer. "Sexual Abuse Characteristics and Psychological Functioning among Male Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/37585.
Full textBragg, Leila Smith. "The relationship between conviction rates of child abuse perpetrators and forensic medical examinations performed by trained versus non-trained exmainers on victims of child sexual abuse." Click here to access dissertation, 2005.
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Hayes, Joan Linda. "Childhood sexual abuse and sexuality, a group approach for women sexually abused as children." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq23335.pdf.
Full textBoldon, Lorna Jeanne. "Towards a new sexual abuse model, shame and spiritual distress in sexually abused women." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0032/MQ64734.pdf.
Full textAnderson, Diane Hutt. "Sexual abuse as a determinant of female amphetamine abuse." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1993. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/716.
Full textTennfjord, Oddfrid Skorpe. "Attitudes towards child sexual abuse." Doctoral thesis, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Psychology, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-1922.
Full textThe main purpose of the present thesis was to develop a measurement instrument aimed to reveal attitudes towards child sexual abuse, and to measure attitudes and associating personal, social and cultural factors among three different samples of Norwegian adults. Additional aims were to explore the relation between participants’ knowledge-seeking on the one hand, their experiences, attitudes and actual knowledge about abuse on the other hand.
Three studies are presented based on the same data material collected in Norway in spring 2004. Three samples were included in the survey: A sample of randomly selected adults between 18-67 years (n = 296). A sample of active Christians between 22-65 years (n = 125) and finally a sample of imprisoned child sexual offenders between 21-74 years (n = 36).
Study I was primarily concerned about the development and validation of a new measurement instrument, entitled Attitudes towards child sexual abuse (ACA). The scale consisted of four different attitudinal dimensions. A confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) confirmed the four-factor structure. The four dimensions were entitled 1) Acceptance and responsibility, 2) Fatalism, 3) Damages caused by abuse, and 4) Legal issues. The result showed that there were significant attitude differences across the samples. The differences were in the expected direction e.g. offenders reported more abuse-accepting attitudes than the random adults and active Christians, and men had more abuse-accepting attitudes than women. This confirms the discriminative properties of ACA. Furthermore, the factors hypothesized to be associated with attitudes towards abuse behaved as expected, e.g. high empathy was related to more averse attitudes. Conclusively, the scale was found to be valid and reliable.
Study II further investigated attitudes towards abuse and explored cultural, social and personal factors associated with these attitudes. The results showed that different factors were predictors of attitudes in the three samples. Empathy and normlessness were the best predictors of attitudes among the random sample of adults and the active Christians. The most significant predictors of attitudes among the prisoners were their view of women and femininity. This may imply that different intervention strategies should be chosen depending on the target group.
Study III aimed to explore attitudes towards and knowledge-seeking about child sexual abuse among the samples. It was hypothesized that those who seek more knowledge had more accurate knowledge about abuse, and that the difference in knowledge-seeking and attitudes were related to the respondents’ own experience with abuse. It was furthermore expected that both knowledge-seeking and attitudes were predictors of abusive behaviour. The results suggested that attitudes and knowledge-seeking differed across samples and gender. The active Christians had most aversive attitudes towards child sexual abuse and sought more knowledge about abuse than the comparing samples. The respondents who reported high knowledge-seeking seemed to have more knowledge of abuse as well. However, a more comprehensive measurement of both knowledge-seeking and actual knowledge is recommended in future studies. Knowledge-seeking was related to both direct and indirect experience, e.g. victims of abuse had higher knowledge-seeking compared to non-victims and those who knew a victim had higher knowledge-seeking than those who did not know a victim. Abusive behaviour was predicted by attitudes, gender and sample. Knowledge-seeking did not predict abusive behaviour.
Taken together, the three studies showed that the hypothesized attitudinal differences between the three samples, were confirmed. Furthermore, the expected relation between attitudes on the one hand and social, cultural, and personality factors and knowledge-seeking on the other hand, was supported. The result as a whole may serve as a guide to interventions aimed to prevent abuse.
Manwaring, Gail E. "Narratives of sexual abuse disclosure." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/mq22634.pdf.
Full textLee, Susan Speicher. "Sexual abuse and stunted spirituality." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1987. http://www.tren.com.
Full textCarter, Shevaun Kirsten. "Perpetrators of child sexual abuse." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2017. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/7691/.
Full textBrett, E. "Childhood sexual abuse and delusions." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2005. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1446331/.
Full textHendricks, Mary E. "A study of the relationship between male sexual victimization and sexual aggression against females /." View online, 1993. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211998880617.pdf.
Full textGajarsky, Wendy M. "Long-term correlates of unwanted childhood sexual experiences : sexual satisfaction, victimization, and perpetration." Virtual Press, 1988. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/544143.
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Abdulrehman, Rehman Y. "The relationship between sexual aggression and perception of abuse in adult survivors of child sexual abuse." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ57522.pdf.
Full textGlaister, Judy Alane. "Experiences of women healing from childhood sexual abuse /." Digital version accessible at:, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
Full textDunn, Sarah E. "Interviewing pre-school age victims of child sexual abuse interviewing methods and disclosure outcomes /." unrestricted, 2005. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-11292005-200535/.
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Muga, Jerusha Atieno. "Child sexual abuse in Christian families." Berlin Viademica-Verl, 2010. http://d-nb.info/1001930541/04.
Full textHayburn, Tracey J. "Childhood sexual abuse and later life." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.436290.
Full textSwanston, Heather Yvette. "Five Years After Child Sexual Abuse." University of Sydney. Paediatrics and Child Health, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/573.
Full textTurton, Jackie. "Child sexual abuse : understanding female offenders." Thesis, University of Essex, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.274378.
Full textMOURA, MIRIAM PERES DE. "CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE: RESPONSIBLES SOCIAL REPRESENTATIONS." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2004. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=5931@1.
Full textO abuso sexual praticado contra crianças é um crime hediondo que nos remete a uma história de dominação e poder do mais forte contra o mais fraco, e do adulto contra a criança, sejam eles familiares ou estranhos. Atualmente essa questão vem mobilizando autoridades governamentais, profissionais de saúde, de educação e a sociedade, através da mídia, da criação de leis, de campanhas educativas e da academia. Muitos embates têm sido travados visando encontrar as melhores alternativas para o enfrentamento do problema. Com base na noção de que a representação social contém um caráter prático e operacional, voltado para a ação, o presente estudo teve dois objetivos centrais: primeiro, identificar as representações sociais dos responsáveis por crianças vítimas de abuso sexual acerca dos agressores, dos profissionais e dos serviços de atenção à criança vítima de abuso sexual; e segundo, entender como essas representações influenciam a resolutividade dos casos atendidos.Conclui-se que a adesão ao tratamento, primeira condição para a resolutividade, é fortemente influenciada pelas representações sociais dos responsáveis, em particular aquelas relativas à função desempenhada pelas autoridades e à figura do autor do abuso sexual. O estudo mostra ainda que os responsáveis fazem circular essas representações, mas se ressentem do fato de nem sempre elas serem ouvidas, o que demonstra a necessidade de estabelecer uma escuta diferenciada que valorize e compreenda suas representações sociais como fatores determinantes no sucesso do acompanhamento e adesão ao tratamento. Apoiar, sustentar e valorizar a fala dos responsáveis, dar voz a estas representações e frustrações, é pois fundamental para construir ações efetivas na trajetória de enfrentamento da questão de modo a contribuir na resolutividade dos casos de abuso sexual.
Sexual abuse practised against children is a hideous crime which reminds us to a history of domination from the strongest to the weakest, from adults against children; being their relatives or unknown people. Nowadays, this question has been mobilizing governmental authorities, educational and health professionals and society as a whole through educational marketing campaigns, academic institutions, and also the criation of new legislation. Battles have been battled in order to find better alternatives to face this problem.Based on the idea that social representation contains a practical and operational character, which is focused on the action, this study had two principal objectives: Firstly, to identify the social representations from people who are in charge for children who are victms of sexual abuse, in relation to the their aggressors; representations from all the professionals involved and also from children protection programs. Secondly, to understand how these social representations influence the sexual abuse cases solutions.We conclude that the treatment adherence, which is the first condition towards the solution, is strongly influenced by parent social representations. Particularly, those ones related to the function represented by authorities and by the sexual abuse author figure. The study still shows that responsibles make to circulate these representations, although they feel resentful about the fact they are not always listened to. It demonstrates the necessity of establishing a differencial listening service, which understands and makes valuable their social representations as determining facts for the treatment adherence, its accompanying and success. Supporting and sustaining in order to become worthy these responsible clamours, as well as giving the right importance to their representations and frustrations. Therefore, these attitudes are fundamental to build effective actions during the jouney to face this question, in order to contribute to the sexual abuse cases solutions.
Hatton, Victoria. "Investigating perceptions of child sexual abuse." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2017. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/41986/.
Full textHarwell, Amy. "Gender issues in child sexual abuse." Thesis, Middlesex University, 2002. http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/13592/.
Full textTshume, Nobom. "Resilience in childhood sexual abuse survivors." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/50438.
Full textENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study will review the literature on resilience in adult female childhood sexual abuse survivors with specific focus on incestuous abuse. Adults with histories of sexual abuse are categorised as either resilient or non-resilient on the basis of current functioning. Characteristics of the family of origin and its perceived contribution to the child sexual abuse are discussed. The developmental psychopathology literature addressing issues of resilience and vulnerability to stresses is addressed. The theoretical concepts of resilience, as they relate to protective mechanisms are discussed.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie navorsingstuk bied 'n oorsig oor die literatuur met betrekking tot die herstelvermoe van volwasse vroulike persone wat as kinders seksueel mishandel is, met besondere klem op bloedskandelike mishandeling. Volwassenes met 'n geskiedenis van seksuele mishandeling word op grond van hulle huidige funksionering beskryf as Of in staat om te herstel of nie daartoe in staat nie. Kenmerke van die gesin van oorsprong en die waargenome bydrae van die gesin tot die seksuele mishandeling van kinders word bespreek. Die literatuur met betrekking tot ontwikkelingsgerigte psigopatologie gee aandag aan vraagstukke met betrekking tot herstelvermoe en kwesbaarheid teen die agtergrond van stres. Die teoretiese konsepte van herstelvermoe, en die verband daarvan met beskermende meganismes, word ook bespreek.
Chan, Mi-har. "Breaking secrets : disclosing childhood sexual abuse /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B20124843.
Full textSwanston, Heather Yvette. "Five Years After Child Sexual Abuse." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/573.
Full textDeaton, Gary Wayne. "Male sexual abuse: A retrospective study." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1996. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1282.
Full textBillings, Teresa Solomon, and Judith Gardner Simolke. "Characteristics of male childhood sexual abuse." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2001. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1735.
Full textZivney, Olivia Ann. "The Effects of Child Sexual Abuse as Reflected in Rorschach Responses." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1987. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc501160/.
Full textRibau, Márcia Martins. "Abuso sexual intrafamiliar." Bachelor's thesis, [s.n.], 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10284/4343.
Full textO abuso sexual intrafamiliar praticado contra a criança e o adolescente constitui uma das mais graves modalidades de violência doméstica. Estas ofensas ocasionam danos permanentes na personalidade e na identidade sexual da vítima. A ausência de um perfil homogéneo do abusador e o silêncio com que ocorre o abuso evidenciam a necessidade de o problema ser pesquisado com maior profundidade. O presente estudo tem por objetivo analisar os eventos criminais cometidos por reclusos acusados do crime de abuso sexual de menores intrafamiliar, sendo a amostra do mesmo 50 reclusos do Estabelecimento Prisional da Carregueira. Para tal, recorreu-se ao método de investigação mista, com a realização de entrevistas e análise documental, que permitiram a elaboração dos resultados e a sua discussão a partir do enquadramento conceptual, tendo-se assim alcançado o objetivo do estudo.
Sexual abuse of children and adolescents, by family members, it´s one of the most severe types of domestic violence. These offenses generates permanent trauma on the victims personality and sexual identity. The absence of an aggressor homogeneous profile and the concealed way that abuse occur, show the need for an extent research. The main objective of the present study consists on the analysis of convicted intra-familiar sexual offenders, considering a sample of 50 prisoners on the Carregueira Establishment. For this investigation, it was conducted interviews and document examination, which produced results and therefore, a thorough discussion on the conceptual framework, leading to the study´s initial objective.
Fouché, Ansie. "Facilitating disclosure of child sexual abuse victims in the middle childhood a forensic interview protocol for social workers /." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2007. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-08112008-153723.
Full textWood, Allison. "Working with sexual abuse survivors, the effects of sexual assault counsellors." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq61035.pdf.
Full textSubedi, Pooja, Julie Obenauer, Renice Obure, Malendie Gaines, Megan Quinn, and Jill D. Stinson. "Childhood Sexual Abuse and Sexual Behaviors Among College Students in Appalachia." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/7955.
Full textJohansson, Susanne. "Sexual Relationships between Athletes and Coaches : Love, Sexual Consent, and Abuse." Doctoral thesis, Gymnastik- och idrottshögskolan, GIH, Institutionen för idrotts- och hälsovetenskap, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:gih:diva-4890.
Full textOrnelas, Eddie Pinon 1968. "Sexual abuse variables associated with sex-role identity and sexual orientation." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/278308.
Full textSleeman, Ananda. "A systematic review of online child sexual abuse: victim risk and offender profile and methodologies." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/10761.
Full textMalan, Christoffel Naudé. "Die verhale van kinders wat seksuele misbruik oorleef het 'n pastoraal-narratiewe ondersoek /." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2005. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-05252006-125618/.
Full textKolbe, Cleophas. "An investigation into the patterns of child sexual abuse and victim-perpetrator relationships among survivors of child sexual abuse at a university." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2005. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&.
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to examine victim-perpetrator relationships
to determine the extent to which students are bothered by the event at the time of completing the Early Sexual Experiences Checklist
to establish the age of the student at the time the event occurred and also the age of the other person involved when the event occurred
and to determine the frequency of the coercive event.
Seaton, Mary Ann. "Sexual abuse prevention programs in Illinois schools /." View online, 2006. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211131342703.pdf.
Full textFlickinger, Aprile. "The experience of remembering childhood sexual abuse." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape7/PQDD_0007/NQ39526.pdf.
Full textParsons, Diana. "The sexual abuse of children, spirit murdering." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0007/MQ45244.pdf.
Full textWorrell, Marcia Lorraine. "The discursive construction of child sexual abuse." Thesis, Open University, 2001. http://oro.open.ac.uk/18986/.
Full textFeicht, Kimberly Jane. "Sexual abuse prevention for developmentally disabled women." Scholarly Commons, 1993. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/2773.
Full textNatha, Khilona. "Molecular Forensic Investigations into Animal Sexual Abuse." Master's thesis, Faculty of Health Sciences, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32938.
Full textLevett, Ann. "Psychological trauma : discourses of childhood sexual abuse." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17128.
Full textThere are difficulties with the ways in which childhood sexual abuse and its consequences have been conceptualised and studied. This thesis takes a critical and reflexive approach in examining conventional, dominant ideas about psychological trauma following the sexual abuse or molestation of girls. The empirical and clinical literature in this area is reviewed, to contextualize two studies in the first part of the thesis. Case studies of three women who disclosed childhood sexual abuse as a major problem area in psychotherapy are presented within a psychodynamic framework; the therapeutic issues which emerge are ones common among women. A prevalence study of child sexual abuse experiences among a sample of university women students is then presented and compared with North American studies; the prevalence figure of 44% is discussed in relation to the methodology used, which was informed by feminist conventions of a supportive, non-intrusive group setting, providing educational input as a therapeutic intervention. Given that childhood sexual abuse is a common experience for girls, a conceptual analysis of psychological trauma is developed. In Part II of the thesis the methodology is informed by the importance of linking current ideas about ideology with language and social practices, in an investigation of themes of power/knowledge in relation to the issues raised in Part I. Verbal and written texts gathered from a group of women were subjected to discourse analyses. In the third study presented it is shown that the professional discourse concerning the traumatic effects of child sexual abuse is pervasive in discursive themes elicited from lay women. This is interpreted as an example of the production and reproduction of knowledge which perpetuates existing power structures (lay /professional; female/male; child/adult); anomalous themes are understood as agentic strategies of resistance. In the fourth study presented, discourse analysis of spoken and written texts collected from women showed the extent to which fears and anxieties about childhood sexual abuse affects the lives of girls and women in a South African sample, and the forms these fears take. Interpreted as discourses of female control, every girl is placed and has to place herself in relation to these discourses, in which she invests in various ways. The conclusion is that the individualization of specific events of sexual abuse obscures the everyday discourses and discursive practices which govern the lives of girls and women, against which they may struggle. These constitute aspects of the interpellation of female gendered subjectivity. The conflict areas and problems which bring women to therapy are related to being female in a particular socio-historical context, rather than to experiences of childhood sexual abuse.
Sterling, Carolyn Dawn. "Accounting for child sexual abuse : male discourses." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13546.
Full textThis study explores discourses which relate to child sexual abuse and which seek to excuse or justify it. It is hypothesized that these discourses are wide-spread and are not held simply by a small minority of offenders. Similar discourses emerged in two very different groups of male subjects. The first comprised 45 male second year University of Cape Town students in the Department of Psychology in 1986, who enrolled for a gender socialization course credit option. The second consists of 26 alleged child sexual abusers admitted to Valkenberg Hospital for psychiatric observation in 1988/9. A discourse analysis methodology is used to analyse essays written by the students and transcripts of audiotaped groups in which they participated, as well as accounts of the alleged offence contained in the clinical records of the observation cases. Ten discoqrse1;i, relating to excuses or justifications for child sexual abuse, were identified by their repeated occurrence in the research material. Identified justifications of child sexual abuse are victim blaming, the belief that men are unable to control their sexual drive, the assertion of power, perceived rights over women, and doubting the evidence of girls and women. Illustrations of these discourses, which are present in both students' essays and groups, as well as in the alleged offenders' accounts, are discussed. These five discourses appear to be pervasive and may be indicative of generally held beliefs which relate to the different positions in which men and women are placed in society.
Shirin, Bakhti. "Sexual Exploitation and Abuse by UN Peacekeepers." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22622.
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