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Talking About Sexual Assault: Society's Response to Survivors
This book provides a comprehensive look at women’s rape disclosure, addressing such issues as why, how often, and to whom women disclose their sexual assault; how people respond to disclosures; what factors influence how they respond to disclosures; and how these responses affect survivors.
209 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2010
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November 14, 2014
I knew a lot about sexual assaults before I started reading this book. In fact, I got the book only for my research papers on rape and ipv. However, I couldn't resist reading it from cover to cover, and I'm glad I did. I discovered (or maybe started paying attention to) the things I've never considered important, specifically vicarious and secondary traumatic stress. Together with the author of the book I found out the influence of disclosures of sexual assaults on the responders. I also had a chance to concentrate on many other aspects of rape that never bothered me much. Apart from that, I was able to connect my own feelings and fears with the material in the book, and get a clearer understanding of the reasons behind those experiences.
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