Childhood Sexual Experiences

Narratives of Resilience

Sally Hunter, Paul Woodmansey

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CRC Press
25 November 2009

Sexual abuse & harassment; Sociology: sexual relations; Child welfare; Paediatric medicine

The issue of Childhood Sexual Experiences (CSEs) is highly controversial and has generated considerable disagreement and conflict. Such experiences are often framed as child sexual abuse (CSA) within a discourse of child maltreatment. Sexual activity between adults and young children is indeed abuse and fully merits the moral stance taken by therapists health professionals and society. However Childhood Sexual Experiences presents evidence that viewing all CSEs through the same prism of abuse victimhood and commonly-held perceptions of gender socialisation may not always allow those affected to tell the whole story. Not all those who experienced sexual activity as children view themselves as victims believe that their experiences had a profoundly or irrevocably negative impact on their lives or view their experiences as 'abusive'. Others do not want their identities to be linked to specific events in childhood. Applying a positive psychology approach Childhood Sexual Experiences recounts and explores the stories of those who have shown an ability to come to terms with or overcome the difficulties that they have faced exploring the insights these narratives of resilience present to therapists and health and social care professionals.

By: Sally Hunter, Paul Woodmansey
Imprint: CRC Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 1st New edition
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 385g
ISBN: 9781846193378
ISBN 10: 1846193370
Pages: 220
Publication Date: 25 November 2009
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Childhood sexual experiences. What we already know about childhood sexual experiences. Damaged goods? Heterosexual and homosexual experiences in childhood. A silence recently broken. The need to remember and the need to forget. Protecting and helping others. Justice at any cost. Remaining defiant. Kids and adults that don’t tell. Drawing together the threads of resilience. Gender differences in disclosure and development of a narrative of resilience. Implications and recommendations. Appendices: Ten week, step-by-step recovery programme. Research methodology. Limitations of research methodology.

Senior Lecturer in Health, University of New England, Armidale, Australia

Reviews for Childhood Sexual Experiences: Narratives of Resilience

'This important book offers the reader a novel understanding of childhood sexual abuse. The book would be useful as background reading for all practising clinicians, doctors, nurses, psychologists, psychosexual therapists, youth workers and social services' Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care