ArticleJournal of interpersonal violence2022
Bringing Shame Out of the Shadows: Identifying Shame in Child Sexual Abuse Disclosure Processes and Implications for Psychotherapy.
Article in Journal of interpersonal violence, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 27 citations in OpenAlex.
- Sexual Violence and Shame: A Meta-Analysis.Trauma, violence & abuse · 2026Pooled it
- The transdiagnostic network of childhood trauma, anxiety, and depression in college students: centrality of emotional neglect and the bridging function of emotional abuse.BMC psychiatry · 2026Article
- Mixed Response Patterns to a Virtual Reality Intervention targeting Trauma-related Shame in Adolescents after Sexual Abuse: A Single-Case Experimental Design.Child psychiatry and human development · 2026Article
- Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors Among Chinese Adolescents in Relation to Negative Life Events, Internet Addiction, and Sexual Abuse: Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Article
- Violence Against Women: Experiences of Eritrean Refugee Women in Britain.Violence against women · 2025Article
- Expert interviewers' approach to navigating forensic interviews with adolescents who are reluctant to disclose sexual abuse.Psychiatry, psychology, and law : an interdisciplinary journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law · 2025Article
- Developmental trajectory of guilt and shame during the transition to university.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Research Review: Why do prospective and retrospective measures of maltreatment differ? A narrative review.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2024Review
- Why do prospective and retrospective measures of childhood maltreatment differ? Qualitative analyses in a cohort study.Child abuse & neglect · 2024Article
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Abstract
Child sexual abuse (CSA) has been described as a highly stigmatizing experience. Despite the recognition of shame as a significant contributor to psychological distress following CSA, an inhibitor of CSA disclosure, and a challenging emotion to overcome in therapy, limited research has explored the experience of shame with young people who have been sexually abused. This study is unique in examining the transcripts of 47 young people aged 15-25 years from a large-scale study conducted in Ireland and Canada and exploring manifestations of shame in CSA disclosure narratives. Using a thematic analysis of both inductive and deductive coding, the data were examined for implicit, as distinct from explicit, manifestations of shame. Three key themes were identified in this study: languaging shame, avoiding shame, and reducing shame. The study supports previous authors in highlighting the need for nuanced measures of shame in research that takes account of the complexity of this emotion. Conceptualizations in the literature of the distinction between shame and guilt are challenged when these emotions are explored in the context of CSA. Finally, recommendations for working therapeutically with young people who have experienced CSA are offered with a view to addressing shame in therapeutic work.
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