Supporting Those Who Love the Loathed: Trauma-Informed Support Groups for Family Members of Registered Sex Offenders

Kavanagh, Shelley; Levenson, Jill S.

doi:10.1177/10443894211008846

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“…Our study builds on other evaluations of support options for families of sex offenders, which consistently highlights the efficacy of self-help and peer support approaches in promoting coping strategies and resilience (Sample et al, 2018;Kavanagh & Levenson, 2021). However, this article has emphasized the politicized awareness that emerged from women's contact with each other and PartnerSPEAK.…”

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confidence: 90%

“You Feel Like You Did Something So Wrong”: Women's Experiences of a Loved One's Child Sexual Abuse Material Offending

Salter,

Woodlock,

Jones

2023

Violence Against Women

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This article examines the experiences of female partners and relatives of child sexual abuse material offenders and the (il)legibility of their experiences within prevailing theoretical frameworks and policy responses to violence against women. Drawing on survey and interview data with clients of a specialist support agency, we situate the lack of understanding and support available to these women within the systematic depoliticization of child sexual abuse. The article traces how women developed their own social critique of child sexual exploitation as a form of gendered violence and called for a feminist reengagement with the politics of child sexual abuse.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 90%

“You Feel Like You Did Something So Wrong”: Women's Experiences of a Loved One's Child Sexual Abuse Material Offending

Salter,

Woodlock,

Jones

2023

Violence Against Women

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“…The therapist's ability to hold to the principles elucidated in this article, in particular the role of empathy and compassionate care, can be challenged depending on the social location of group participants, either from a place of prejudice or ignorance. In relation to prejudice, Kavanagh and Levenson (2022) offer a valuable insight into the need to tailor trauma-informed practice skills and tools for facilitating support services for highly stigmatised populations. The parallel problem of ignorance must also be addressed; consequently, cultural competence requires investigation into how best to meet the needs of specific populations.…”

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confidence: 99%

The Role of Mindfulness and Embodiment in Group-Based Trauma Treatment

Tempone-Wiltshire

2024

Psychotherapy and Counselling Journal of Australia

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Embodiment and mindfulness interventions provide a range of benefits for individuals living with trauma yet a lack of clarity surrounds their integration in group work practice. This article provides a framework for the integration of embodiment and mindfulness interventions in group settings for trauma. While such interventions can be utilised in primary trauma processing and open process group psychotherapy, this article provides particular guidance for the more general integration of these tools in structured format resourcing groups. Attention is given to the value and features of a phasic, staged integration of these interventions for specialised trauma-oriented group work. This article details how mindfulness and embodiment interventions support participants to cultivate the capacity to counter experiential avoidance and reorient attention towards the present moment, consequently increasing bodily and affective self-awareness. This serves to reduce patterns of reactivity, thereby supporting symptom stabilisation, improved reflective and mentalising ability, and cultivation of the self- and co-regulatory capacities necessary for trauma-processing group work. These interventions also possess supportive implications for the facilitator’s wellbeing, the formation and cohesiveness of the group, and, crucially, the norming process, both implicit and explicit. Attention is given also to safety considerations, including contraindications of mindfulness practices with certain trauma presentations, and the necessary screening requirements and exclusion criteria in the formation of a trauma-oriented group.

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“…An individual whose partner is a political offender could have fewer sensations of disgrace about the partner's detention (Folch, 2021), compared to an individual whose partner is detained for a sex offense. Kavanagh and Levenson (2021) reported that the latter sustained substantial damage. Evans et al (2021) also reported that the travesty of a felony charge is significantly more pronounced among relatives of sex offenders than among relatives of other offenders.…”

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The Last Lick: A Lived Experience of Non-incarcerated Partners

Adetunji

Wambugu

Kamau

2023

ESJ

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The incarceration of their partners has a profound effect on the non-incarcerated ones. But what are these effects, and what are the results? The purpose of this study was to (1) assess the notable feelings experienced by non-incarcerated partners and (2) understand the implications of these feelings. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 10 female participants who had their partners incarcerated at Nigeria's Agodi-Ibadan Medium Correctional Facility. An interpretative phenomenological approach was employed to analyse their lived experience with Satir's model. Thirteen sub-themes derived from feelings revealed the participants' frustration, pain, and hurt; betrayal and anxiety; anger, confusion, and interruption; hostility, hunt, and fear; sadness, shame, and humiliation; being depressed and incarcerated; being surprised and in denial; being confused and helpless; being sorry and suffering double losses; being controlled as well as feeling relieved. This study found that 40% of participants felt frustrated, angry, interrupted, and hunted, while 30% felt hurt, bitter, or humiliated, and 20% felt betrayed, incarcerated, in denial, confused, or had a sense of relief while their partners were incarcerated. These experiences intensified the impacts of their partners’ incarceration. The study has recommendations for marriage and family specialists.

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Supporting Those Who Love the Loathed: Trauma-Informed Support Groups for Family Members of Registered Sex Offenders

Cited by 9 publications

References 36 publications

“You Feel Like You Did Something So Wrong”: Women's Experiences of a Loved One's Child Sexual Abuse Material Offending

“You Feel Like You Did Something So Wrong”: Women's Experiences of a Loved One's Child Sexual Abuse Material Offending

The Role of Mindfulness and Embodiment in Group-Based Trauma Treatment

The Last Lick: A Lived Experience of Non-incarcerated Partners

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