The rape victim : clinical and community interventions /

The rape victim : clinical and community interventions / Mary P. Koss, Mary R. Harvey.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Koss, Mary P., Harvey, Mary R. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Newbury Park, California : Sage Publications, [1991]
Edition:Second edition.
Series:Sage library of social research ; v. 185.
Subjects:
Rape > United States.
Rape victims > Services for > United States.
Rape victims > Counseling of > United States.
Community mental health services > United States.
Sexual assault.
Sexual violence.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The crime of rape
  • Legal definitions of rape
  • Types of rape
  • Incidence of rape
  • National crime survey techniques that undermine rape disclosure
  • Prevalence studies of rape
  • The causes of rape
  • 2. Trauma of rape
  • An ecological model of rape trauma
  • Phases of response to rape
  • The male victim
  • Symptomatic responses to rape
  • Cognitive impact of rape
  • Person characteristics that affect rape response
  • Event characteristics that affect rape response
  • Posttraumatic stress disorder in rape victims
  • A behavioral-cognitive conceptualization of rape aftereffects
  • Clinical screening for assault history
  • Psychometric assessment of rape aftereffects
  • 3. Rape as a community issue
  • Defining "community"
  • Functions of communities
  • The community as "ecosystem"
  • A resource perspective
  • Case example" date rape on college campuses
  • The adaptive nature of community change
  • Initiating change in a community's response to rape
  • Assessing local services
  • Components of a communitywide response to rape
  • Social action, community education, and prevention
  • A community needs assessment tool
  • Conclusion
  • 4. The rape crisis center
  • The rape crisis center movement
  • Feminist origins of the rape crisis center movement
  • A feminist analysis of rape
  • Social change initiatives
  • Empowering services
  • Feminist organizations
  • Rape Crisis Center research
  • A study of nine exemplary rape crisis centers
  • Conclusion
  • 5. The clinical treatment of rape victims
  • Challenges of working with rape victims
  • Single-session debriefing for the victim of rape
  • Criteria of recovery
  • Integrative treatment of nonrecent rape
  • 6. Group treatment for survivors
  • Research on group treatment
  • The rationale for group treatment
  • Group treatment and recovery
  • A range of group treatment approaches
  • Designing a survivors' group
  • Group treatment within the victims of violence program
  • Conclusion
  • 7. Preventing sexual assault
  • Preventive mental health care
  • Prevention, public health, and epidemiology
  • Prevention and the promotion of competence
  • The primary prevention of sexual assault
  • Competence-based primary rape prevention strategies
  • Conclusion.

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