“I Still Feel Like I Am Not Normal”: A Review of the Role of Stigma and Stigmatization Among Female Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse, Sexual Assault, and Intimate Partner Violence

Trauma, Violence, and Abuse

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2018, Pages 512-527

  Kennedy, Angie C ^a   Prock, Kristen A ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

dating violence; rape; secondary victimization

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABUSE SURVIVOR; CRIME; DATING VIOLENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; PARTNER VIOLENCE; RAPE; REVIEW; SHAME; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL NORM; STIGMA; VICTIM; CHILD ABUSE SURVIVOR; CRIME VICTIM; DEPRESSION; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGY; STEREOTYPING;

ADULT SURVIVORS OF CHILD ABUSE; CHILD; CRIME VICTIMS; DEPRESSION; DISCLOSURE; FEMALE; HELP-SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE; RAPE; SHAME; STEREOTYPING; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 85054921467     PISSN: 15248380     EISSN: 15528324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1524838016673601     Document Type: Review

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