Purpose Much attention has been offered to the deleterious health impacts of sexual
violence (SV) and for the most part, research has adopted a strengths-based perspective …

Trauma-informed design is an important yet challenging area due to required expertise for
careful engagement with the vulnerable and traumatized person, particularly with children …

Background Disclosing ongoing child sexual abuse (CSA) to a mandated reporter should
facilitate youth safety. Unfortunately, youth may continue to experience abuse after …

Health researchers have had increasing calls to include vulnerable populations in research
to tailor inclusive evidence-based practice interventions. The inclusion of vulnerable …

Antirape scholarship has largely focused on survivors and their needs. However, little is
known about victim advocates, who support survivors, and how advocates' identities can …

Informed by Kennedy and colleagues (2012) help-seeking framework, this two-part study
assessed sexual assault survivors' experiences seeking services in the Illinois civil legal …

Sexual assault is defined as sexual contact between individuals without appropriate legal
consent. Rape is one form of sexual assault involving penetration, however slight, of the …

The “neoliberal turn” of the US anti-rape movement in the 1990s extended the state's power
over victim advocacy for survivors of sexual assault and created challenges for, and at times …