Seeking Justice and Redress for Victim-Survivors of Image-Based Sexual Abuse

Survivors of physical and sexual abuse.

Child abuse dimensions with self body-image and sexual satisfaction

Childhood abuse has direct effect on body image So that the body image affects the some aspects of psychological which has a direct relationship with sexual satisfaction also has effect on sexual satisfaction indirectly The purpose of this research was to study childhood dimensions with self-body image and sexual satisfaction. This research is conducted as correlation-descriptive study. A sampl...

An exploratory study of victim resistance in child sexual abuse: offender modus operandi and victim characteristics.

The use of self-protection strategies and related situation in rape has been studied by several scholars. The circumstances in which children are more likely to resist sexual victimization have, however, not been studied. This study examines the association between offence-related factors-specifically, the preoffence situation, the modus operandi strategies adopted by offenders, and victim char...

Is the child victim of sexual abuse telling the truth?

In order to adequately investigate an allegation of sexual abuse, professionals must both understand the motives of the victim, perpetrator, and victim's mother (in incest cases) to lie or tell the truth and possess the techniques for examining the child's story. Children almost never make up stories about being sexually abused. In fact victims are often revictimized in multiple ways for truthf...

Emotionally Focused Therapy for couples and childhood sexual abuse survivors.

This study explored Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for couples with childhood sexual abuse survivors (CSA) and their partners. Half of the couples in this study reported clinically significant increases in mean relationship satisfaction and clinically significant decreases in trauma symptoms, and thematic analyses identified numerous areas where trauma survivors were challenged in fully enga...