Communicating a History of Sexual Trauma: Partner Responses to Women's Disclosure

Lukacena, Kaylee M.; Mark, Kristen P.

doi:10.1177/10778012211034217

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“…Muffly and Gerney (2015) investigated occupational preferences and found that people having experienced sexual assault (contrary to controls and to people having experienced a car accident or mugging) avoided occupations involving interpersonal touch. Finally, a qualitative study suggested that many women victim of sexual IPV, when disclosing their past trauma to their new partner, consider it important that the partner respects their physical boundaries and highlights the need not to be touched at certain times (Lukacena & Mark, 2022). This underlines the importance for victims of IPV to control how and when they are touched in their new relationship.…”

Section: Ipv Trauma and Affectionate Touchmentioning

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Accounts of interpersonal touch in female victims of intimate partner violence: A qualitative study

Debrot,

Rochat,

del Río Carral

et al. 2024

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

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Crucial for human development and functioning, affectionate touch predicts well-being. However, most research on affectionate touch in romantic relationship is conducted with samples in high quality relationships and relies on quantitative methods. We thus know little to nothing about how touch is experienced in low-quality relationships, namely those characterized by intimate partner violence (IPV). To fill this gap, victims of physical and/or sexual IPV who had received psychological support at one association supporting victims of IPV were invited to participate in the present study. The thematic analysis conducted upon the qualitative data revealed five main themes: (1) the definition of identity by touch, (2) the presence of “undesired” touch, (3) the absence of “desired” touch, (4) the memories and flashbacks triggered by touch, and (5) the self-reconstruction allowed by touch. Analyses are discussed in terms of their link with previous research on affectionate touch and on interpersonal violence. The results suggest that this constitute a meaningful topic of investigation to be further analyzed, as well as a possible therapeutic channel.

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Section: Ipv Trauma and Affectionate Touchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Accounts of interpersonal touch in female victims of intimate partner violence: A qualitative study

Debrot,

Rochat,

del Río Carral

et al. 2024

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

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“…Travmatik olayların olumsuz fiziksel sonuçların yanında travma sonrası stres bozukluğu (TSSB) (Brewin ve diğ., 2000;Larsen ve Pacella, 2016), depresyon (Laugharne, Lillee ve Janca, 2010), kaygı (Magnavita ve diğ., 2021), kendine zarar verme davranışı, intihar (Gilbert ve diğerleri, 2009), maddenin kötüye kullanımı ve/veya bağımlılığı (Enoch, 2011) gibi çeşitli psikolojik sonuçlara da neden olabilmektedir. Bununla birlikte travma deneyimi; yaşamın anlamının keşfedilmesi (Zeligman ve diğ., 2019), kaliteli yakın ilişkilerin gelişmesi (Lukacena ve Mark, 2021), psikolojik sağlamlığın gelişmesi ve travma sonrası büyüme (Brooks ve diğ., 2020;Michalchuk ve Martin, 2019) gibi bazı olumlu kazanımlarla da sonuçlanabilmektedir.…”

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Travma ve Krize Müdahale Yaklaşımları: Kuramsal Bir Bakış

OGAN,

ÖZ SOYSAL,

AYSAN

2023

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Bu çalışmanın amacı, travma ve krize müdahale yaklaşımlarını kuramsal bir bakış açısıyla incelemektir. Bu bağlamda, travma ile kriz arasındaki farklar, kriz türleri, travma ve krize müdahale yaklaşımlarına yönelik kuramsal bakış açıları ve araştırma bulguları ele alınmıştır. Travma, bireylerin bizzat yaşadıkları ya da tanık oldukları olaylar olarak tanımlanırken; kriz, ani ve beklenmedik olumsuz yaşantılar olarak tanımlanmaktadır. Bireyler, travma ve kriz süreçlerinden olumsuz etkilenmekte, süreci yönetmekte problem çekmekte ve psikolojik desteğe ihtiyaç duyabilmektedirler. Bu noktada, “travma ve kriz danışmanlığı” kavramı öne çıkmaktadır. Travma ve kriz danışmanlığı, etkili psikolojik danışmanlık becerilerinin yanı sıra kriz yönetme, travma ile çalışma becerilerine ve yetkinliğine de sahip olmayı gerektirmektedir. Literatür incelendiğinde, travma ve krizle çalışırken ruh sağlığı uzmanlarının uygulayabilecekleri müdahalelerin çeşitliliği göze çarpmaktadır. Bu bağlamda bu çalışmada, travma ve krize müdahale yaklaşımları kuramsal ele alınıp ilgili araştırma bulgularına yer verilmiştir. Travma ve krize maruz kalma oranının yüksek olduğu göz önünde bulundurulduğunda travma ve kriz danışmanlığının önemi göze çarpmakta, ruh sağlığı uzmanlarının travma danışmanlığında uzmanlaşmaları ile travma ve krize müdahaleye yönelik yaklaşımlarla ilgili ampirik sonuçlara duyulan ihtiyaç artmaktadır.

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“…Partners of survivors sometimes felt their needs were not being met and they experienced strain in the relationship following disclosure of sexual assault [ 25 ]. However, although disclosure of prior sexual trauma to a new partner is common, it isn’t always supportively received, and the reception of the disclosure may impact the extent to which the relationship experiences strain [ 32 ]. In another study, the results showed that partners were cautious about navigating sexual intimacy with the survivor and survivors reported that they sometimes got triggered by their partner or experienced dissolution of their relationship because of the impact of the assault on sexual functioning [ 25 ].…”

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Women’s strategies for navigating a healthy sex life post-sexual trauma

Mark,

Vowels,

Mullis

et al. 2023

PLoS ONE

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Sexual trauma is common. Consequences of sexual trauma can include deterioration of mental and physical health and it can also affect future romantic and sexual relationships. Previous studies have identified common healthy and destructive coping mechanisms to recover after experiencing sexual trauma, but few studies have investigated useful strategies to move into a healthy sexual relationship focused on resilience. In-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted with 41 women with a history of sexual trauma who were in a healthy sexual relationship at the time of participation. Participants provided strategies that helped them move beyond the sexually traumatic event(s) toward a healthy sexual relationship. Reflexive thematic analysis identified 5 effective and 6 ineffective strategies reported by the participants. Rich examples of resilience and empowerment were overarching in the effective strategies used for moving toward healthy sexual relationships. Women were also able to reflect on the strategies that were ineffective for them with kindness and understanding for their coping at that time, a normalizing theme for women working through sexual trauma. The results of this study will help therapists and researchers working with women who have experienced sexual trauma learn from their experiences in working beyond trauma toward a healthy sexual relationship.

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Communicating a History of Sexual Trauma: Partner Responses to Women's Disclosure

Cited by 6 publications

References 44 publications

Accounts of interpersonal touch in female victims of intimate partner violence: A qualitative study

Accounts of interpersonal touch in female victims of intimate partner violence: A qualitative study

Travma ve Krize Müdahale Yaklaşımları: Kuramsal Bir Bakış

Women’s strategies for navigating a healthy sex life post-sexual trauma

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