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The rape victim: psychodynamic considerations.
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In counseling, the victim's previous adjustment should be assessed, she should be given support and reassurance, and specific considerations related to her life circumstances should be acknowledged and dealt with.Abstract:
Rape challenges a woman's ability to maintain her defenses and thus arouses feelings of guilt, anxiety, and inadequacy. Women's individual responses are determined by life stage considerations as well as their defensive structures: concerns about separation-individuation may be aroused in the young woman; a divorced or separated woman may find her credibility questioned; older women's fears of sexual inadequacy may be compounded. In counseling, the victim's previous adjustment should be assessed, she should be given support and reassurance, and specific considerations related to her life circumstances should be acknowledged and dealt with.read more
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A Theoretical Perspective for Understanding Reactions to Victimization
TL;DR: It is proposed that victims' psychological distress is largely due to the shattering of basic assumptions held about themselves and their world, and coping with victimization is presented as a process that involves rebuilding one's assumptive world.
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The Sociocultural Context of African American and White American Women's Rape
TL;DR: The authors examined historical factors related to African American women's rape and their disclosure patterns and compared similarities and differences in incidents of attempted or completed rape in a community sample of 55 African American and White women.
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Victims of rape: Repeated assessment of depressive symptoms.
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Rape trauma syndrome
TL;DR: The theoretical and practical clinical issues involved in rape trauma are reviewed as well as the early court rulings on the admissibility of rape trauma syndrome in criminal and civil cases.
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Victim attributions and post-rape trauma.
TL;DR: Both kinds of self-blame were significantly associated with increased post-rape depression, and attributions strongly predicted adjustment, accounting for up to 67% of the variance in 3-day post- rape depression.
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TL;DR: Crisis intervention counseling is effective with typical rape trauma syndrome; additional professional help is needed in the case of compounded reaction; and the silent rape reaction means that the clinician must be alert to indications of the possibility of rape having occurred even when the patient never mentions such an attack.
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Individual reactions to community disaster. The natural history of psychiatric phenomena
TL;DR: The natural history of individual behavior in acute community disasters that have been studied appears to fall into 3 overlapping phases—a period of impact, a period of recoil, and a posttraumatic period—each of which can be characterized according to stress, time, and psychological phenomena.
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Coping behavior of the rape victim.
TL;DR: The authors analyzed the reported coping behavior of 92 women diagnosed as having rape trauma, finding that most of the women used verbal, physical, or cognitive strategies when threatened, although 34 were physically or psychologically paralyzed.