Talking about Sexual Assault
Society's Response to Survivors
Description:... Women who have been raped and sexually assaulted are often retraumatized by negative social reactions from family and friends, health care professionals, institutions, and society at large. The second edition of this comprehensive book thus educates supporters on how they can respond more appropriately and avoid retraumatization by examining women's rape and sexual assault disclosures from a social ecological perspective. Offering powerful, provocative, and deeply personal insights, Sarah E. UIlman challenges rape culture and educates therapists and other frontline workers assisting survivors, as well as researchers and students, on what to avoid and how to empower survivors and help them heal. She draws on her own experiences interviewing survivors and support providers, and she synthesizes transtheoretical research on why, how often, and to whom women disclose, as well as the effects of social contexts on disclosures and their impacts. New to this edition are updated research findings addressing disclosure via social media, social phenomena like the #MeToo movement, and informal supporters' experiences with survivors. While most research still focuses on White, heterosexual, and cisgender women, emerging findings on LGBTQ+ individuals, cis males, people of color, and people with disabilities is reviewed where available.
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