When exploring the risk factors, it is worth noting that children who are survivors of sexual abuse have a prevalence of up to 4 times higher of neglect, maltreatment and physical abuse than children who are not survivors (Scrandis, 2014, p. 706). Although there is no overt indication of physical abuse in Trevor’s family, the way in which Gary minimized the sexual abuse and his involvement in creating an environment conducive for the incident to occur could be seen as negligent. Interestingly, research has “confirmed that men with histories of CSA routinely face discordance between sexual victimization and living up to cultural prescriptions of manhood” (Easton, 2014, p. 249). This is important particularly because of Gary’s traditionally masculine
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As Mariott, Hamilton-Giachritsis & Harrop (2014) note, although resilience appears to be a somewhat intuitive concept, it can still be a challenging one to operationalize, and thusly isn’t often directly measured, but understood by examining “risk and positive adaptation” (p. 18). A factor with the potential to influence resilience is whether or not children have experienced prior abuse (Collin-Vézina et al., 2013, p. 5). As far as is known, this is Trevor’s first experience of victimization, which one would imagine would offer him more resiliency …show more content…
In terms of ambiguity, studies have used many clinical samples, involving individuals in substance abuse rehabilitation facilities or psychiatric inpatients, or convenience samples such as college students, have tended to ignore the presence of other forms of abuse in CSA survivors and have been mostly focused on females (Dube et al., 2005, p. 434; Stoltenborgh et al., 2011, p. 90). In addition, when studying female perpetrators of CSA, the sample often consists of incarcerated individuals, which already limits the data to that from individuals who have been caught prosecuted and sentenced (postulated to represent only 1-4% of true offending population) (Rudin et al., 1995, p. 964). Furthermore, the format of data collection is often self-report, which may be questionably valid due to the potential for secondary motivation to report that a history of victimization to elicit empathy or for the purpose of decreasing their jail time (Johansson-Love & Fremouw, 2006, p.
As Mariott, Hamilton-Giachritsis & Harrop (2014) note, although resilience appears to be a somewhat intuitive concept, it can still be a challenging one to operationalize, and thusly isn’t often directly measured, but understood by examining “risk and positive adaptation” (p. 18). A factor with the potential to influence resilience is whether or not children have experienced prior abuse (Collin-Vézina et al., 2013, p. 5). As far as is known, this is Trevor’s first experience of victimization, which one would imagine would offer him more resiliency …show more content…
In terms of ambiguity, studies have used many clinical samples, involving individuals in substance abuse rehabilitation facilities or psychiatric inpatients, or convenience samples such as college students, have tended to ignore the presence of other forms of abuse in CSA survivors and have been mostly focused on females (Dube et al., 2005, p. 434; Stoltenborgh et al., 2011, p. 90). In addition, when studying female perpetrators of CSA, the sample often consists of incarcerated individuals, which already limits the data to that from individuals who have been caught prosecuted and sentenced (postulated to represent only 1-4% of true offending population) (Rudin et al., 1995, p. 964). Furthermore, the format of data collection is often self-report, which may be questionably valid due to the potential for secondary motivation to report that a history of victimization to elicit empathy or for the purpose of decreasing their jail time (Johansson-Love & Fremouw, 2006, p.