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    Exploring trauma causing factors in a group of adult women who experienced childhood sexual abuse

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    2017
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    Henning, Marinda
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    The main aim of this study was to explore what is known from literature and practice about trauma causing factors of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) in adult women survivors. This exploratory qualitative research study was conducted in two phases. During phase one, a scoping review of 59 studies was conducted, followed by a focus group discussion and individual interview with four experts working with adult women survivors. Thematic analysis of the data identified traumatic sexualisation, betrayal, stigmatisation, powerlessness, development arrest, and the nature and context of CSA as trauma causing factors in adult women survivors. In phase two, a qualitative secondary analysis (QSA) was conducted using one set of data collected during treatment sessions of the S2T collaborative strengths-based group intervention. Five of these factors were identified in South African women survivors, with the exception of the nature and context of CSA. This study expands on the four traumagenic dynamics of CSA as conceptualised by Finkelhor and Browne in 1985. Future research is recommended to confirm the findings from this study, and to expand the evidence of trauma causing factors of CSA in the South African context. Die hoofdoel van hierdie studie was om te verken wat reeds in verband met trauma-veroorsakende faktore van seksuele misbruik van kinders (SMK) by volwasse vroue wat dit deurgemaak het, in die literatuur opgeteken en in die praktyk vasgestel is. Hierdie verkennende kwalitatiewe navorsingstudie is in twee fases uitgevoer. Tydens fase een is ʼn bestek-oorsig van 59 studies uitgevoer, gevolg deur ʼn fokusgroep-bespreking, met drie deskundiges wat werk aan volwasse vroue wat hierdie trauma in hul verlede ervaar het en ʼn individuele onderhoud met een so ʼn deelnemer wat die groepbespreking nie kon bywoon nie. Tematiese analise van die data het traumatiese seksualisering, verraad, stigmatisering, magteloosheid, ontwikkelingstremming, en die aard en erns van SMK as trauma-veroorsakende faktore by volwasse vroue wat in hulle kinderjare genoemde ervarings opgedoen het. Tydens fase twee is ʼn kwalitatiewe sekondêre analise (KSA) uitgevoer deur gebruik te maak van een stel data wat tydens behandelingsessies van die S2T saamwerkende sterktegebaseerde groepbespreking ingesamel is. Vyf van hierdie faktore is by Suid-Afrikaanse genoemde kategorie vroue geïdentifiseer, benewens die aard en erns van SMK. Hierdie studie brei uit op die vier traumageniese dinamika soos in 1985 deur Finkelhor en Browne gekonseptualiseer. Toekomstige navorsing word aanbeveel om die bevindinge van hierdie studie te bevestig en die bewyse van trauma-veroorsakende faktore van SMK in die Suid-Afrikaanse konteks uit te brei.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10394/26205
    https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3908-059X
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