‘I don’t know what I’m doing. How about you?’: Discourse and identity in practitioners dealing with the survivors of childhood sexual abuse. [PDF]
, 2007 This research is based on interviews conducted with a voluntary group of health practitioners who care for the adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse in one area of Scotland.
Randall, Julian
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Trauma‐Informed Practice in Welfare‐to‐Work and Employment Services: A Scoping Review
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT There is increasing recognition within welfare services, including employment services, that many participants may have histories of trauma. Research suggests that experiences of trauma not only impact individuals' psychosocial health but also vocational elements such as job performance, employability, career progression, and financial ...
Emily Corbett +3 more
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Exploring psychotherapists' perceptions of the impact of childhood sexual abuse on adult intimate relationships. [PDF]
, 2011 Psychotherapists are one group of professionals that deal with cases of childhood sexual abuse. This study explores a sample of psychotherapists' perceptions of various aspects of childhood sexual abuse, with particular reference to how they perceive ...
Bradford, Casey
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Experience of childhood abuse and later number of remaining teeth in older Japanese: a life-course study from Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study project [PDF]
, 2016 OBJECTIVES: From a life-course perspective, adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) such as childhood abuse are known risk factors for adult diseases and death throughout life. ACEs could also cause poor dental health in later life because they could induce
Aida, J +7 more
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Systems and structures designed to protect and support young people, specifically (in this paper) young women, are ironically the same systems that maintain gender disparity. Consequently, this has influenced the embodied identities of young women who experience and use violence. Such systemic and structural intersectionality has impacted upon
Louise Rak +3 more
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“Childhood Cuts Festered and Never Scabbed Over”: Child Abuse in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child [PDF]
, 2016 Toni Morrison revisits one of the main thematic concerns, child abuse and trauma, of her premier novel, The Bluest Eye, in her latest book God Help the Child. She has actually dealt profusely with all sorts of child maltreatment in her oeuvre.
López Ramírez, Manuela
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The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
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‘Somewhere We Can Call Home and…Be Normal’: Findings From the Justice Housing Programme Evaluation
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The relationship between homelessness or unstable housing and reincarceration is well documented. The initial month after a person is released from custody is a period of particular vulnerability, with an increased risk of homelessness and return to prison.
Helen Taylor, Lorana Bartels
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Exploring the relation between childhood trauma, temperamental traits and mindfulness in borderline personality disorder [PDF]
, 2015 Background: Deficits in mindfulness-related capacities have been described in borderline personality disorder (BPD). However, little research has been conducted to explore which factors could explain these deficits.
Carmona i Farrés, Cristina +9 more
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Examining the Impact of Domestic and Family Violence on Young Australians’ School‐Level Education
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Australian policy and practice increasingly acknowledges the need to respond to children as victim‐survivors of domestic and family violence (DFV) in their own right. As part of this, and in recognition that schools often have the most consistent contact with young people experiencing DFV, there is mounting recognition of the role education ...
Rebecca Stewart +2 more
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