Suffering whether You Tell or Don't Tell: Perceived Re-Victimization as a Barrier to Disclosing Child Sexual Abuse in Zimbabwe.
Disclosing child sexual abuse (CSA) is a necessary first step to access the legal, health, and psycho-social services that survivors and their families need. However, disclosure rates are low: of young women who experienced CSA in Zimbabwe, only 9% disclosed the first incident. The purpose of this q...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Child Sexual Abuse Vol. 29; no. 8; pp. 944 - 965 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Nov-Dec2020
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