Military Sexual Trauma: Violence and Sexual Abuse

Military sexual trauma: violence and sexual abuse.

Military sexual trauma includes sexual assault and sexual harassment in military settings by intimate partners and active duty personnel. Such violence triggers a syndrome of episodic, clustered, psychological and physiological symptoms that may be fatal. Despite its pervasiveness, many clinicians fail to recognize as many as 95% of cases among veterans and active duty personnel. Many victims r...

Military Sexual Trauma

Frayne, S. M., Skinner, K. M., Sullivan, L. M., Tripp, T. J., Hankin,C. S., Kressin, N. R., et al. (1999). Medical profile of women VeteransAdministration outpatients who report a history of sexual assaultoccurring while in the military. Journal of Women’s Health andGender-Based Medicine, 8, 835-845. To profile differences incurrent physical symptoms and medical conditions a...

Sexual Trauma in the Military

Sexual trauma remains a pervasive problem in the military. The deleterious mental health outcomes related to incidents of sexual assault have been well-documented in the literature, with particular attention given to the development of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and utilization of mental health services. Much effort has focused on addressing issues of sexual trauma in the military. Th...

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Violence, sexual abuse and health in Greenland.

The purposes of the study were to analyse the lifetime prevalence of violence and sexual abuse among the Inuit in Greenland and to study the associations between health and having been the victim of violence or sexual abuse. Associations were studied with specific attention to possible differences between women and men. Further, response rates were analysed specifically in order to understand c...