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Citation |
Moor A, Farchi M. Women Ther. 2011; 34(4): 447-460. |
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Copyright |
(Copyright © 2011, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group) |
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unavailable |
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Abstract |
Rape treatment generally takes the form of standard trauma intervention, which may limit its ability to resolve rape-specific symptoms. For the sake of optimizing such treatment, the present study seeks to distinguish specific post-rape symptoms from those observed following other forms of trauma, particularly in respect to self-blame and related PTSD. Given typical societal victim-blaming following rape, self-blame is expected to be considerably more extreme among survivors of rape than in other victims, and predictive of relatively elevated post-trauma symptoms. Three hundred and four participants completed measures of blame attribution and PTSD, substantiating the hypotheses. Implications for rape treatment and social change are discussed. |
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Keywords |
PTSD; rape; self-blame; rape treatment |