#CSA
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When you talk about things that happen now like slavery or child sexual abuse (CSA) hopefully we all pretty much agree these things are bad. What frustrates me is the argument that if it happened in the past it’s actually ok ‘by the standards of the day.’ I’ve heard this many times when people talk
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Woohoo! Our article about the making of the film ‘Flow’ is now online. It’s open access so anyone can read it and watch the film. It’s co-authored with Scarlett de Courcier, Chris Godwin, Jodie Hannis, Zillah Turner, Julie Lloyd and Susan Macklam. We’re SO proud of the film and all it has achieved. Check it
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Thank to The University of Sheffield my film ‘Flow’ about adults disclosing childhood sexual abuse #CSA is now available with subtitles in multiple languages here: https://player.sheffield.ac.uk/events/flow. The picture above shows Maasai subtitles. Languages available are: Albanian, Chinese (simplified and traditional), French, Filipino/Tagalog, Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Maasai, Malay, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Tamil, Urdu, Uzbek. If you
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I’m delighted to report, after much effort, I’ve got funding from Research England to create a short film. It is also supported by NHS England and the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (Department of Health). What really came out in my research was that poor reactions to talking about abuse can stop people trying
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There are people who dismiss poor responses to abuse in the past as ‘it was a long time ago, people didn’t know about it then’ or ‘things were different then.’ I thought I would do a series of blogs looking at the history of our awareness of CSA. We start with two of the earliest
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Recently I read this article about tattooing as a way to reclaim your body and your autonomy. This resonated with me on a professional and personal level. Young (1992) argues that for a person who has not experienced trauma, the physical environment is divided into ‘me’ and ‘not me.’ The physical boundary between ‘me’ and
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My research has identified four key questions for people recovering from childhood sexual abuse to consider. Some of the answers will be individual to you and it is vital that you make your own choices. After thinking of your answers to these questions you might feel that you want to take action yourself or you
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In the 1990’s there was a lot of press about recovered memories of child sexual abuse (CSA), most suggesting that they were false memories implanted by therapists. I’ve been researching this area for my thesis and was surprised by what I found. The False Memory Syndrome Foundation was founded by Peter and Pamela Freyd after
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I believe research should aim to change things for the better so I feed my results in wherever I can. One submission I made was to the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse (CSA). They have published the first in a series of reports and included the evidence I
Modern & Historical Research about Child Sexual Abuse 