Transforming Trauma: Narrative Practices that Highlight Resilience and Reauthor Resistance for Male Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse

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cityu.schoolDivision of Arts and Sciences
cityu.siteVancouver, BC
cityu.site.countryCanada
dc.contributor.authorBartkiewicz, Renee
dc.date.accessioned2016-06-06T21:17:17Z
dc.date.available2016-06-06T21:17:17Z
dc.date.issued2015-10-05
dc.description.abstractIn this thesis the unique issues facing the marginalized population of male childhood sexual abuse survivors are examined, with a focus on resilience, resistance, and narrative therapeutic practices. Research indicates that childhood sexual abuse damages a child's developing capacities for trust, intimacy, agency and sexuality,and compromises how one relates to one's world as a child and as an adult. It will be argued that a strength-based narrative approach will recognize past efficacy, encourage competency, and instill hope for potential possibilities. Revised trauma narratives that illuminate resilience and resistance allow male survivors to challenge outdated masculinity scripts and better understand the human experience with compassionate awareness of one's past, present, and future strengths and abilities. Recognition of male survivors resistance to childhood trauma can serve as a catalyst for strategies of survival, determination, and agency and create a map for their adult resiliency.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11803/59
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisher.institutionCity University of Seattle (CityU)
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States
dc.rightsopenAccess
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/
dc.subjectnarrative therapy
dc.subjectchildhood sexual abuse
dc.subjectresilience
dc.subject.lcshChild sexual abuse--Psychological aspects
dc.subject.lcshSexually abused children--Counseling of
dc.subject.lcshSexually abused boys--Counseling of
dc.subject.lcshPsychic trauma in children
dc.subject.lcshResilience (Personality trait)
dc.subject.lcshAdult child abuse victims--Counseling of
dc.titleTransforming Trauma: Narrative Practices that Highlight Resilience and Reauthor Resistance for Male Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse
dc.typeThesis
thesis.degree.disciplineCounselling
thesis.degree.grantorCity University of Seattle
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts
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