Men Dealing With Memories of Childhood Sexual Abuse: Conditions and Possibilities of ‘Positive Deviance’

How do Positive Deviants Overcome Health-Related Stigma? An Exploration of Development of Positive Deviance Among People With Stigmatized Health Conditions in Indonesia

“…Positive deviance developed in the form of psychological empowerment which helped individuals overcome the experiences of stigma and related adversities in everyday life. Depending on the field of research and the setting, positive deviance can take different forms (Herlof Andersen, 2008;Marsh et al, 2004). Among Vietnamese farmers facing the issue of child malnutrition, positive deviance came in the form of going against the community tradition and diversifying the children's diet to include other macronutrients other than just carbohydrates (Marsh et al, 2004).…”

“…Among Vietnamese farmers facing the issue of child malnutrition, positive deviance came in the form of going against the community tradition and diversifying the children's diet to include other macronutrients other than just carbohydrates (Marsh et al, 2004). For men dealing with childhood experience of sexual abuse, positive deviance took shape in the form of focusing and building on a positive identity that identifies less with the experience of abuse (Herlof Andersen, 2008). In this study, psychological empowerment was indicative of positive deviants' ability to perceive control in their life (interpersonal empowerment) and develop understanding of the social contexts and systems and ways to maneuver them (interactional empowerment), which enabled them to exert required actions to bring about positive changes in their lives that helped them overcome stigma and related adversities (behavioral empowerment) (Zimmerman, 1995).…”

“…Studies have highlighted this very scope of positive deviance as an approach to discovering solutions to avert existing health-related adversities in the community (Bradley et al, 2009;Marsh et al, 2004). To date, positive deviance has proven as an effective approach to tackling some of society's complex health-related problems from child malnutrition (Marsh et al, 2004), smoking cessation (Awofeso et al, 2008), weight loss/control (Stuckey et al, 2011), retention in medical treatment (Assefa et al, 2014), to posttraumatic stress disorder from sexual abuse (Herlof Andersen, 2008).…”

Developing Gender and Culture Sensitive Conversations with Sexually Abused Men by Blending Ethnography and Psychoterapy

“…Men act out masculinities differently and respond differently to major events in their personal lives, including bodily changes such as aging, illness, traumatic experiences and medical treatment. Research shows how men with experience of CSA can move away from an identity formed by the trauma (Andersen 2008;O'Leary 1998). To understand, accept and recover from the abuse, men may renegotiate their masculine identity by adopting multiple and alternative forms of masculinities (Kia-Keating et al 2005;Petersson and Plantin 2019).…”

Resilience to Child Sexual Abuse in Male College Students

“…Of particular interest were the relational and gender identity themes, as they seemed particularly relevant to clinical treatment with CSA. Taking our cues from other researchers in this field (e.g., Andersen, 2008a;Hunter, 2009;Steever, Follette, & Naugle, 2001), we choose those constructs that seemed the closest approximations to the qualitative themes. For the relational theme, we chose mattering, the perception that one is important to others, as counselors can intentionally initiate mattering relationships in schools and other agencies.…”