Not exact matches
In its thoroughness and even tone this carefully researched study
of Woolf and her works makes a convincing case that the theme
of sexual abuse appears and reappears in Woolf's work — from her earliest writing
at age ten throughout her life — and that the traumas
of her
childhood caused lifelong depression and led to her suicide.
Richard Tollner, who is
childhood sexual abuse survivor, stands in front
of a portrait
of his grandfather
at his home in rural Albany County.
At the same time, sources on Monday said gun control provisions, a measure that would make it easier for the survivors
of childhood sexual abuse to file lawsuits and criminal justice reform were on the verge
of being kicked out
of the budget.
The state budget is expected to pass within the next month, but lawmakers
at the state Capitol are diving into a range
of complicated and emotional issues ranging from gun control to making it easier for the survivors
of childhood sexual abuse to file lawsuits.
Kathryn Robb, a survivor
of childhood sexual abuse by her brother,
at the state capital in Albany as part
of a lobbying effort to pass the Child Victims Act on Tuesday, May 3, 2016.
Individuals struggling with issues
of aloneness, emptiness, depression, self - esteem, anger, or violence; addiction problems including weight problems and food addiction, drug and alcohol addiction, relationship, love and sex addiction; personal issues including
childhood physical,
sexual, emotional and spiritual
abuse; shame, lack
of motivation and goal achievement, and problems
at work.
Between her own life experiences - including a 23 year marriage, raising an amazing daughter, surviving a tough divorce, overcoming a history
of childhood sexual abuse, and sitting
at the brink
of suicide - and then learning about even more relationship stories through interviews from folks across the country... she's heard it all.
HBO Films will premiere The Tale, Jennifer Fox's powerful narrative memoir about her own reckoning with
childhood sexual abuse, on May 26th, and Fox joined castmembers Laura Dern, Isabelle Nélisse, Jason Ritter, Ellen Burstyn and Common for a moving panel after Sunday night's AwardsLine screening
of the film
at LA's Landmark Theatre.
It is also a decision that we can expect to be appealed given the importance
of the legal issues
at stake and the size
of the damages award made by the jury which, by Canadian standards, marks a high for compensation in an historical
childhood sexual abuse case.
Counseling services
at CRSH focus on the identification and treatment
of individual and personal
sexual relationship problems including loss
of sexual desire, painful intercourse,
sexual and arousal difficulties, out -
of - control
sexual behaviors, infidelity, LGBTQ issues, difficulties following
childhood abuse, anxiety and depression and alcohol and chemical dependency /
abuse.
Risk and protective factors found in high frequency were those common to the mainstream community (for example, level
of education, employment and income, experience
of childhood sexual abuse and trauma in adulthood)(and possibly
at higher rates to the general population), as well as those unique to the GLBQ community (for example experience
of homophobia and «questioning» transition)
Felitti and colleagues1 first described ACEs and defined it as exposure to psychological, physical or
sexual abuse, and household dysfunction including substance
abuse (problem drinking / alcoholic and / or street drugs), mental illness, a mother treated violently and criminal behaviour in the household.1 Along with the initial ACE study, other studies have characterised ACEs as neglect, parental separation, loss
of family members or friends, long - term financial adversity and witness to violence.2 3 From the original cohort
of 9508 American adults, more than half
of respondents (52 %) experienced
at least one adverse
childhood event.1 Since the original cohort, ACE exposures have been investigated globally revealing comparable prevalence to the original cohort.4 5 More recently in 2014, a survey
of 4000 American children found that 60.8 %
of children had
at least one form
of direct experience
of violence, crime or
abuse.6 The ACE study precipitated interest in the health conditions
of adults maltreated as children as it revealed links to chronic diseases such as obesity, autoimmune diseases, heart, lung and liver diseases, and cancer in adulthood.1 Since then, further evidence has revealed relationships between ACEs and physical and mental health outcomes, such as increased risk
of substance
abuse, suicide and premature mortality.4 7
As previously described, 46 the measure
of childhood maltreatment includes (1) maternal rejection assessed
at age 3 years by observational ratings
of mothers» interaction with the study children, (2) harsh discipline assessed
at ages 7 and 9 years by parental report
of disciplinary behaviors, (3) 2 or more changes in the child's primary caregiver, and (4) physical
abuse and (5)
sexual abuse reported by study members once they reached adulthood.
Respondents provided the age
of the youngest female whom they had impregnated, their own ages
at the time, and information regarding
childhood exposure to physical or
sexual abuse and battered mothers.
«Staff
at every school in Wales are to be offered training to help pupils tackle the damaging effects
of early
childhood trauma, ranging from
sexual abuse to family bereavement.»
Eligible couples 1) had to be
at least 25 years old; 2) had to be exclusively involved and living together for
at least one year; 3) could not have been previously diagnosed with a psychotic disorder, or currently taking any medication known to treat psychosis or psychotic disorders; 4) could not be receiving current psychotherapeutic (psychological or psychiatric) treatment or anticipating such treatment within the next six months; 5) could not be drinking more than 14 alcoholic drinks per week, using any type
of illegal drugs, or misusing prescription medication; and 6) could not have a history
of either
childhood or adulthood physical or
sexual abuse.
Similar to findings from SASH,
childhood sexual abuse emerged as a particularly robust risk factor for suicide attempts in younger participants in the WMHS cross-national analysis, with a 10.9 times higher OR
of suicide attempts in children, a 6.1 times higher likelihood in adolescents and a 2.9-fold risk in young adults who were exposed.20 This is in keeping with the Enns hypothesis that
sexual abuse results in suicidal behaviour
at a younger age.21 Consistent with other studies,
childhood physical and
sexual abuse, in particular, emerged as risk factors for the emergence and persistence
of suicidal behaviour, especially in adolescence.
Public health efforts aimed
at prevention
of early
childhood sexual and physical
abuse, in particular, may have a significant impact on reducing suicidality over the life course and improving mental health outcomes.
A 2010 study in «Child Maltreatment» examining the
abuse backgrounds
of women
at an STD clinic found that
childhood sexual abuse was the only form
of abuse uniquely associated with risky adult
sexual behaviors, such as having many
sexual partners and frequently having unprotected sex.
Researchers looked
at various Adverse
Childhood Experiences (ACE's include (a) psychological
abuse, (b) physical
abuse, (c)
sexual abuse, (d) substance
abuse by a household family member, (e) mental illness
of a household family member, (f) spousal or partner violence, and (g) criminal behaviour resulting in the incarceration
of a household member) and how they are related to adulthood health risk behaviours and disease outcome.
Starting in infancy and continuing through
childhood, he had been a victim
of physical and
sexual abuse, he was malnourished,
at times he was
The possible
sexual abuse origins
of this «source code» may be
at the generational level
of the narcissistic / (borderline) parent, representing the possible
childhood sexual abuse victimization
of this parent, or the «source code» may have entered the trans - generational transmission
of attachment patterns a generation earlier, with the parent
of the current narcissistic / (borderline) parent whose distorted parenting practices then produced the narcissistic / (borderline) personality organization
of the current parent, so that this particular «phrase»
of the «source code» (i.e., a role - reversal relationship in which the parent uses the child to meet the emotional and psychological needs
of the parent) is being passed on inter-generationally through several generations following the incest victimization trauma.