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SHAME AND SEXUAL ABUSE
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=4><SPAN
class=014382411-06072003>COntinuing the thread spurred on by David Finkelhor's
query on child victims, public exposure, etc., </SPAN></FONT><FONT
face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=326445909-28062003><FONT face=Arial size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><SPAN
class=014382411-06072003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=4>Sheri Oz
replied in part wondering about reseach on shame.
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<DIV><FONT size=2><SPAN class=326445909-28062003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><SPAN
class=014382411-06072003>Candace Feiring has done some really intersting
research on this topic and is editing a special issue of the journal , Child
Maltreatment, on this topic. She and her colleagues found shame to be a highly
important factor in the impact of sexual abuse, and a reduction in shame a
highly important factor in recovery. I recommend the
article:</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2><SPAN class=326445909-28062003><FONT><SPAN
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class=014382411-06072003><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT
size=4>Feiring, C., Taska, L., & Lewis, M. (2002). Adjustment Following
Sexual Abuse Discovery: The Role of Shame and Attributional Style.<B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"> </SPAN></B><U>Developmental Psychology</U>,
<U>38,</U> 79–92.<I> </I></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=4> </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=4>Other related articles that I would
recommend:</FONT>
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<DIV dir=ltr><SPAN class=326445909-28062003><FONT face="Times New Roman"
color=#000000 size=3><SPAN class=014382411-06072003>Chan, C. S. (1999). Culture,
sexuality, and shame: A Korean American woman’s experience. In Y.M. Jenkins
(ed.) (1999). Diversity in college settings: Directives for helping
professionals (pp. 77-85). New York: Routledge.</DIV></SPAN></FONT></SPAN>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; LETTER-SPACING: -0.15pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">uksel,
S. (2000). Collusion and denial of childhood sexual trauma in traditional
societies. In A. Y. Shalev, R. Yehuda & A. C. McFarlane (eds.).
<U>International handbook of human response to trauma</U> (pp. 153-162). New
York: Kluwer.</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=014382411-06072003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=4>Sheri
Oz also wrote:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=326445909-28062003><FONT face=Arial>I would like to comment
that culture has an impact in intensity of response but not in kind.
What I mean is that there is not a dichotomy, for example, shame yes/no, but
rather a gradient - how much shame. Another gradient here (and not simply
yes/no) is the issue of shame being purely internal in the victim
versus shame belonging to the entire family.<SPAN
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size=4> </FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV dir=ltr><SPAN class=326445909-28062003><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
class=014382411-06072003><FONT color=#0000ff size=4>To me, that sounds like a
cultural difference in the shame response. Not just families, but members
of entire ethnic minority communities often feel ashamed when one of their
members (O.J. Simpson, Woody Allen) is caught involved in a scandal--feeling
like it shames the entire community. Members of the majority group are seen as
perpetrating INDIVIDUAL acts that are not seen as reflecting on everyone from
that group. So when sexual abuse is discovered in a family from a group that
ALREADY battles prejudice, there is that much more pressure to keep it
hush-hush. </FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><SPAN class=326445909-28062003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=4><SPAN class=014382411-06072003>Veronica Abney & Ronnie Priest write
about how this form of denial interferes with sexual abuse prevention
efforts:</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: 0in">Significant segments of the
African American community have traditionally taken a twofold thematic variation
of “see no evil, hear no evil.” On one hand, sexually abusing children is
something other ethnic groups do. On the other hand, if, in fact, African
Americans do engage in incestuous acts or other sexually abusive behavior with
children, it is not to be talked about because it is thought that acknowledging
sexual child abuse will be used in some damnable way to further exclude African
Americans from the American mainstream. (Abney & Priest, 1995, p. 11<SPAN
class=014382411-06072003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=4>, <FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>African Americans and Sexual Abuse,
in L. Fontes, (Ed) Sexual abuse in Nine North American Cultures. Thousand Oaks:
Sage </FONT></FONT></SPAN>).</P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>
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