Parents' Experiences of Their Child's Disclosure of Child Sexual Abuse.

Abstract:

:A child's disclosure of sexual victimization is a difficult experience for parents and has been associated with traumatization, disbelief, denial, self-blame, and clinical difficulties. To date, most studies on parents' responses have been quantitative assessments of the psychological impact of disclosure on parents. A paucity of research has qualitatively explored mothers' experiences of their child's disclosure of child sexual abuse (CSA) and fathers' experiences have been even further neglected. The current study seeks to characterize parents' experiences of their child's disclosure of CSA and to uncover the process-oriented nature of parental responses. This qualitative study, using a grounded theory approach to analysis, involved interviews with 10 mothers and four fathers whose children (3-18 years) had experienced sexual abuse. Three themes emerged from the analysis. The first theme-making sense of the abuse in retrospect-captured the process through which parents sought to make sense of their child's disclosure, focusing on why their child had not disclosed the abuse to them earlier, and how they had noticed something was wrong but misattributed their child's behavior to other factors. The second theme-negotiating parental identity as protector-reflected how parents' identity as a protector was challenged, their perception of their world had been forever altered, and they now experienced themselves as hypervigilant and overprotective. The final theme-navigating the services-pertained to parents' struggle in navigating child protection and police services, and feelings of being isolated and alone. These findings highlight the need for empathy and parental support following child disclosure of sexual victimization. :La revelación de victimización sexual de un hijo es una experiencia difícil para los padres y se ha asociado con el trauma, la incredulidad, el rechazo, la autoculpabilización y las dificultades clínicas. Hasta la fecha, la mayoría de los estudios sobre las respuestas de los padres han sido evaluaciones cuantitativas del efecto psicológico de dicha revelación en los padres. Muy pocas investigaciones han analizado cualitativamente las experiencias de las madres con respecto a la revelación de sus hijos de abuso sexual infantil, y las experiencias de los padres se han pasado por alto aun más. El presente estudio tiene como finalidad caracterizar las experiencias de los padres con respecto a la revelación de sus hijos de abuso sexual infantil y descubrir la índole orientada a procesos de las respuestas de los padres. Este estudio cualitativo, que utilizó una metodología de muestreo teórico del análisis, consistió en entrevistas con diez madres y cuatro padres, cuyos hijos (de entre 3 y 18 años) habían sufrido abuso sexual. Del análisis surgieron tres temas. El primer tema- dar sentido al abuso retrospectivamente - captó el proceso por el cual los padres intentaron dar sentido a la revelación de su hijo, centrándose en por qué su hijo no había revelado el abuso antes, y en cómo habían notado que algo estaba mal pero atribuyeron erróneamente el comportamiento de su hijo a otros factores. El segundo tema -la negociación de la identidad parental como protectora- reflejó cómo se cuestionó la identidad de los padres como protectora; la percepción de su mundo se había modificado para siempre y ahora se sentían hipervigilantes y sobreprotectores. El último tema - cómo orientarse entre los servicios - estuvo relacionado con la dificultad de los padres para orientarse entre los servicios de protección infantil y policiales, y con el sentimiento de estar aislados y solos. Estos resultados destacan la necesidad de empatía y de apoyo a los padres después de la revelación de victimización sexual de un hijo. :孩子把遭受性侵的事实说给家长听,接纳真相对于家长而言是非常困难的事情,它往往和创伤,不信任,抗拒接受,自责和临床上的治疗困难联系在一起。直到今天,关于家长反应的研究中,大多数都是使用量性评估的方法测量孩子告知事实之后家长所受到的心理影响。孩子讲述受到性虐待的经历之后,母亲方面的经历是什么样的,用质性研究方法对此来探索的现存研究极少,对父亲方面的经历展开研究更是被忽略。本研究旨在探究孩子说出被性侵真相后家长的经历有哪些特点,揭示过程导向的家长反应的本质。本文的质性研究数据来源于10位母亲,4位父亲,其孩子(3-18岁)都有过性虐待经历,使用的是生根理论方法来分析访谈数据。数据分析得出三个大主题。第一个主题是 - 在回想中去理解孩子遭虐待的事实- 抓住了家长试图弄清楚孩子所讲述事情的这个过程,重点放在为什么孩子没有更早一点对他们讲述所受到的虐待事件,还有他们如何注意到有些不对劲的迹象但是却把孩子的行为归结为其他原因。第二个主题是 -家长的身份是保护者 - 反思家长本应是个保护者这个身份是如何受到挑战的,他们对世界的认识被永远改变,他们现在的自己较之以前是过于警觉和过于保护。最后一个主题是 -设法使用各种服务 - 和父母尽力想保护好孩子和找警方求助有关,和处理倍感被孤立和觉得孤单的情绪有关。这些研究结果强调了同情的必要性,和孩子告知被性侵事实之后给予父母方面的支持。.

journal_name

Fam Process

journal_title

Family process

authors

McElvaney R,Nixon E

doi

10.1111/famp.12507

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2020-12-01 00:00:00

pages

1773-1788

issue

4

eissn

0014-7370

issn

1545-5300

journal_volume

59

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