Stigmatized Loss in Women Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse in South Africa

Ebrahim, Baaqira Kays; Fouché, Ansie; Walker-Williams, Hayley J.

doi:10.1080/15325024.2018.1500102

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“…Included for analysis was only empirical retrospective studies, published between 1992 and 2019, in which women survivors of CSA self-reported loss relating to their CSA. Of the studies for the summary analysis, the majority ( n = 13) were from the United States, one study each was found in Australia (Goldman & Bode, 2012), Canada (Mcevoy & Daniluk, 1995), New Zealand (Romans et al, 2001), Israel (Chopra, 2006), and South Africa (Ebrahim et al, 2018), and two were unspecified (Oz, 2005; Roth & Newman, 1992). Ten of the 20 studies specified the participant’s race.…”

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Losses Associated With Childhood Sexual Abuse in Women Survivors: A Scoping Review

Ebrahim

Fouché

Walker-Williams

2021

Trauma, Violence, & Abuse

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Childhood sexual abuse is a complex trauma with unique trauma-causing factors that could have devastating long-term, negative effects on survivors. To date, little attention has been given to loss and specifically stigmatized or hidden loss as a unique trauma-causing factor. Method: This article reports the findings of a scoping review designed to identify research exploring the losses associated with childhood sexual abuse in women survivors. A systematic search of databases for articles published between 1983 and 2019 were conducted using keywords related to loss and women survivors of childhood sexual abuse. Findings: Twenty studies were selected for review using predefined inclusion criteria: studies that include adult women survivors of childhood sexual abuse, studies that include child/childhood sexual abuse, studies that include stigmatized loss, studies that indicate stigmatized loss in adult women survivors of childhood sexual abuse. Sources were subject to quality appraisal and data were extracted in line with the review question. Discussion and Contribution: Findings acknowledged and extended on Bloom’s model of stigmatized loss and suggested that female survivors of childhood sexual abuse may experience an overall loss of self-efficacy, presenting as a loss of personal agency, interpersonal agency, and sexual agency. The results of this research suggest that loss be considered in support interventions with women self-reporting childhood sexual abuse. It is recommended that further research be conducted to confirm these findings so that they may advocate for inclusion in childhood sexual abuse treatment interventions.

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Losses Associated With Childhood Sexual Abuse in Women Survivors: A Scoping Review

Ebrahim

Fouché

Walker-Williams

2021

Trauma, Violence, & Abuse

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“…In locating the reference of the psychological enigma, the problem is that it exclusively focused on the ability of a child to perform adult-like mourning rather than on a definition of childhood mourning. Christina Sekaer, as cited in Ebrahim, Fouch e, and Walker-Williams (2019) defined childhood mourning as the process wherein a child optimally reacts to death and continues with comparatively normal development. The more neutral manner to approach a child's mourning is to provide some adequate support from an adult caretaker (e.g., older siblings, grandparents, relatives) who can help meet the needs of the child and allowing him or her to communicate his or her feelings towards parental death (Garber, 2008).…”

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Acceptance, Endurance, and Meaninglessness: A Qualitative Case Study on the Mourning Tasks of Parental Death From Childhood Experience to Adolescence

Pacaol

2021

Omega (Westport)

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Bereavement and mourning are arguably one of the research interests of psychologists, psychoanalysts, and psychiatrists since Freud’s publication of Mourning and Melancholia. This paper is a qualitative case study that sought to examine the mourning experience of the participant from childhood until his adolescence. For theoretical foundation, the four tasks of mourning primarily developed by James Worden was utilized for the proper direction of the research inquiry; namely: a.) accepting the reality of death; b.) experiencing the feeling of grief; c.) adjusting and creating new meanings in the post-loss world; and d.) reconfiguring the bond with the lost person. The paper finds that the participant’s cognitive attitude, emotional experiences, and personal observations of the environment enable him to overcome actively (in an overlapping manner) the three tasks of mourning. However, the failure to find an enduring connection with his deceased parents is not a result of strong attachment but with the absence of personal belief about the meta-existence of God.

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Stigmatized Loss in Women Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse in South Africa

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Losses Associated With Childhood Sexual Abuse in Women Survivors: A Scoping Review

Losses Associated With Childhood Sexual Abuse in Women Survivors: A Scoping Review

Acceptance, Endurance, and Meaninglessness: A Qualitative Case Study on the Mourning Tasks of Parental Death From Childhood Experience to Adolescence

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