Citation

Boehmer CM, Misch DA. Women Ther. 2011; 34(4): 461-480.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/02703149.2011.581580

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Processing the trauma of sexual assault is a complicated and often prolonged process that may occur both within and outside a formal psychotherapeutic context. The second author describes an undergraduate class that explores various aspects of sexual assault, followed by a paper written by a female student in which she describes how the class impacted her intellectual understanding of and emotional reactions to her own sexual victimization as a high school student. Finally, the authors discuss the concept of "working through" as it applies to recovery from sexual assault, and they propose that a didactic course experience, even if not designed as a therapeutic enterprise, may nonetheless serve such a function.

Keywords

trauma; sexual assault; undergraduate education; working through