I still Feel Abnormal: Self Recovery after being Sexually Abused

DOI

10.2991/icss-18.2018.330How to use a DOI?

Keywords

self-recovery, sexual abuse, children, private setting.

Abstract

Sexual abuse towards children may cause psychological, physical, and social trauma. This study focuses on self-recovery attempts of victims after being sexually abused. Phenomenology design referring to Creswell perspective as knife analysis was utilized. The data were obtained by doing an in-depth interview and observation. The subjects are children experiencing sexual abused in private and family setting. The study found 2 essential substances which are 1) picture of sexual abused towards children, 2) attempts to recover trauma after being sexually abused. Including a) accepting reality: valuing self sincerely b) opening up a new page of life, c) seeking for a protection, and d) getting closer to God. The researcher recommends further investigation to all people to be cautious toward kids’ predators by giving sexual education from an early age and self-protection attempts to avoid sexual abuse towards children.

Copyright

© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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