@article{ref1,
title="Is rape-related self blame distinct from other post traumatic attributions of blame? A comparison of severity and implications for treatment",
journal="Women and therapy",
year="2011",
author="Moor, Avigail and Farchi, Moshe",
volume="34",
number="4",
pages="447-460",
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.<p />",
language="en",
issn="0270-3149",
doi="10.1080/02703149.2011.591671",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02703149.2011.591671"
}