Varför berättar inte barnen? - perspektiv på sexuella övergrepp
(2013) SOPA63 20122School of Social Work
- Abstract
- Abstract
The aspiration of this essay was to search for explanations why children who are victims of sexual abuse don´t tell someone immediately about their horrifying experiences. Commonly, their way of dealing with the trauma is instead silence for many years until they decide to reveal the abuse. I have read four autobiographies written by people who were themselves, when they were children, victims of sexual abuse. Qualitative research method within the tradition of emotionalism and coding was used in the analysis of the biographies. The children´s tendency to not tell is the result of own negative emotions, part of Silvan S. Tomkins negative affect theory, as well as the surroundings inclination to reject sexual abuse of children as... (More) - Abstract
The aspiration of this essay was to search for explanations why children who are victims of sexual abuse don´t tell someone immediately about their horrifying experiences. Commonly, their way of dealing with the trauma is instead silence for many years until they decide to reveal the abuse. I have read four autobiographies written by people who were themselves, when they were children, victims of sexual abuse. Qualitative research method within the tradition of emotionalism and coding was used in the analysis of the biographies. The children´s tendency to not tell is the result of own negative emotions, part of Silvan S. Tomkins negative affect theory, as well as the surroundings inclination to reject sexual abuse of children as a children’s figment of imagination because of the negative emotions it brings up. Another reason for the surrounding´s denial and lack of further report is the stigmatization revolving sexual abuse of children. (Less)
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- author
- Henriksson, Helena LU
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- organization
- course
- SOPA63 20122
- year
- 2013
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- sexual abuse, biography, stigma and shame
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 4017277
- date added to LUP
- 2013-09-12 13:38:23
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- 2013-09-18 11:24:28
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