Facilitators and barriers to child sexual abuse (CSA) disclosures: A research update (2000–2016)

R Alaggia, D Collin-Vézina… - Trauma, violence, & …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Identifying and understanding factors that promote or inhibit child sexual abuse (CSA)
disclosures has the potential to facilitate earlier disclosures, assist survivors to receive …

A scoping review of adult survivors' experiences of shame following sexual abuse in childhood

M MacGinley, J Breckenridge… - Health & social care in …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Shame following childhood sexual abuse (CSA) can be intensely painful and destructive to
one's sense of self and place in the world. Organised around an internalised core belief of …

“I never told anyone until the# metoo movement”: What can we learn from sexual abuse and sexual assault disclosures made through social media?

R Alaggia, S Wang - Child abuse & neglect, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Social media is providing new avenues for survivors to disclose sexual abuse
and/or assault. Since the creation of# MeToo (2017), and the larger MeToo movement …

Sexual abuse and assault in a large national sample of children and adolescents

A Gewirtz-Meydan, D Finkelhor - Child maltreatment, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
The present study sought to examine features of sexual abuse cases among a US nationally
representative sample of 13,052 children and adolescents, ages 0–17 years. The National …

“Victim is not credible”: The influence of rape culture on police perceptions of sexual assault complainants

EN O'Neal - Justice Quarterly, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Research has long highlighted the importance of complainant credibility in influencing
sexual assault (SA) case outcomes. Despite these findings, few studies have investigated …

Sexual violence is# NotOkay: Social reactions to disclosures of sexual victimization on twitter.

KW Bogen, K Bleiweiss, LM Orchowski - Psychology of violence, 2019 - psycnet.apa.org
Objective: The present study sought to characterize social reactions to disclosures of sexual
violence that occurred online through the Twitter hashtag# NotOkay. Method: A sample of …

Sexual violence against children

I Walker-Descartes, G Hopgood… - Pediatric …, 2021 - pediatric.theclinics.com
Sexual violence against children is a gross violation of their rights during their formative
years and will likely interfere with their developmental trajectory and long-term quality of life …

Barriers and facilitators affecting self-disclosure among male survivors of child sexual abuse: The service providers' perspective

M Sivagurunathan, T Orchard, JC MacDermid… - Child abuse & …, 2019 - Elsevier
Research regarding child sexual abuse (CSA) indicates significant gender differences in
disclosure rates, with males less likely to disclose their abuse compared to females. CSA …

Mental health indicators fifty years later: A population-based study of men with histories of child sexual abuse

SD Easton, J Kong - Child abuse & neglect, 2017 - Elsevier
Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) is a widely acknowledged trauma that affects a substantial
number of boys/men and has the potential to undermine mental health across the lifespan …

'Snitches get stitches': School-specific barriers to victim disclosure and peer reporting of sexual harm committed by young people in school contexts

D Allnock, R Atkinson - Child Abuse & Neglect, 2019 - Elsevier
Background School based, peer-to-peer sexual harm is under-researched despite its
prevalence and adverse effects on young people across the globe. Understanding barriers …