Adopting a Trauma-Informed Approach to Gender-Based Violence Across the Life Course

Sperlich, Mickey; Logan-Greene, Patricia; Finucane, Adair

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-65006-3_12

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“…We call for an expanded focus on workplace sexual harassment programs to overcome the policy failure depicted in Figure 1. We would encourage a trauma informed approach that seeks to minimize further harm to victim/survivors (Bloom, 2010; Sperlich et al., 2021). We implore organizations to include perpetrators in their sights, rather than the current singular focus on grievance procedures for victim/survivors, which have been shown to have the opposite effect and make the situation worse for victim/survivors (Dobbin & Kalev, 2020).…”

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Sexually harassed, assaulted, silenced, and now heard: Institutional betrayal and its affects

Duffy

O’Shea

Tang

2023

Gender Work & Organization

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This work explores the processes of sexual violence and its consequences, within an organizational context through a detailed examination of a professional woman's experience.By centralizing Sofia's lived experiences, we demonstrate how acts of institutional betrayal occur when an organization protects a perpetrator and silences and further traumatizes a victim/survivor. Outwardly this organization purports to champion gender equality, but inwardly they reflect the values and misogynistic norms present in parts of the Australian culture. We lay bare the multiple ways inequity regimes intersect with the disadvantage experienced by Sofia as a junior employee, a migrant, and a woman.We detail and account for Sofia's story through a process of listening deeply and writing differently to illustrate how sexual harassment in the workplace is not confined to a victim/survivor-perpetrator dichotomy but is embedded within organizational structures, policies, processes, and employees themselves. We explore how power relations silenced both victim/survivors and bystanders who spoke out and failed to disrupt the status quo or hold the organization to its purported gender equality values. We describe Sofia's battle for justice within this organization and provide a conceptual framework that highlights how reluctant

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Sexually harassed, assaulted, silenced, and now heard: Institutional betrayal and its affects

Duffy

O’Shea

Tang

2023

Gender Work & Organization

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“…The field of psychology has generated vast knowledge on the causes of GBV and effective approaches to mitigate GBV. For example, clinical psychology made important contributions at the individual level, including the development of effective trauma-informed interventions to treat GBV survivors ( Sperlich et al, 2021 ); cultural adaptations to better serve individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds ( O’Brien & Macy, 2016 ); and training and tools for mental health professionals to deliver effective treatment to survivors and/or perpetrators of GBV ( Taft et al, 2016 ). Developmental psychology has helped to identify adolescence as the most effective developmental stage for GBV prevention efforts ( De Koker et al, 2014 ; Stöckl et al, 2014 ) and informed prevention efforts such as interventions to promote attitudes that prevent GBV ( Lundgren & Amin, 2015 ).…”

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Addressing Gender-Based Violence Using Evidence-Based Practices During COVID-19: The Case of Puerto Rico

Gaba

Flores

Ward³

et al. 2022

Violence Against Women

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As gender-based violence (GBV) surged during the COVID-19 pandemic, the 65th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW65) called for member states, civil, and other stakeholders to consider the specific needs of women and girls in COVID-19 response and recovery efforts. Psychology provides scientific knowledge to help answer this call. Despite existing global guidance and psychological research to mitigate GBV, COVID-19 presents new challenges for consideration. This article summarizes existing GBV guidance/research and COVID-19 considerations, uses an illustrative case study to describe Puerto Rico's application of GBV guidance/research during COVID-19, and provides preliminary policy and practice recommendations.

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Preservation of internal security in Namibia: Challenges for the Namibian Police Force

Mabuku¹,

Olutola²

2022

IJRBS

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This study argues that preservation of internal security of Namibia should not be the primary responsibility of only the Namibian Police Force (NamPol). The issue of security has been the subject of interest throughout human existence and still reserves its principal occupation in the public domain. However, the challenges of insecurities and increased threats to human existence domestically and globally have triggered incessantly renewed security inquiry by scholars, security practitioners, politicians and public administrators. The study employed a qualitative approach; interviews were used to purposively collect data from 20 participants which comprised of the heads of directorates, the regional commanders in the Namibian Police Force, Legal Assistance Centre, NamRights, Namibian Defence Force, Namibian Correctional Service and Windhoek Municipal Police. The data was analysed using thematic analysis, which led to the development of the Framework for Performing Internal Security [FPIS] model. The findings indicate that due to the nature of factors linked to insecurities, such as technology, porous borders, political factors, environmental factors, inequality, poverty, unemployment and lack of provision for essential services, the Namibian police alone cannot preserve internal security effectively. As such, the study recommends that constitutional amendments to incorporate other stakeholders in the preservation Namibia’s internal security.

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Adopting a Trauma-Informed Approach to Gender-Based Violence Across the Life Course

Cited by 3 publications

References 88 publications

Sexually harassed, assaulted, silenced, and now heard: Institutional betrayal and its affects

Sexually harassed, assaulted, silenced, and now heard: Institutional betrayal and its affects

Addressing Gender-Based Violence Using Evidence-Based Practices During COVID-19: The Case of Puerto Rico

Preservation of internal security in Namibia: Challenges for the Namibian Police Force

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