Lis Garratt

Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse and Midwifery Practice (eBook, ePUB)

CSA, Birth and Powerlessness

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Many midwives will care for women who are survivors of childhood sexual abuse (CSA), whether these women disclose this or not.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315357287
• Artikelnr.: 54673691

Autorenporträt

Lis Garratt

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. What is childhood sexual abuse? How the research was
conducted: the problems and dilemmas of dealing with such a topic. The
interviews. How the interviewees responded. The impact of the research on
me. What we already know about the impact of CSA on childbearing. Postnatal
issues. The impact of caregivers. A life sentence: the effect of CSA on the
interviewees' daily lives. The uniqueness of trauma resulting from CSA.
Vulnerability: the end result. The psychological needs of birthing women,
post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic childbirth. Post-traumatic
stress disorder. Re-enactment? The women's experiences of giving birth.
Powerlessness. Betrayal. Humiliation. CSA and midwives: the impact on
midwives' practice. What the midwife-survivors considered to be good
practice. The pressure to conform. Coping with the inescapable: survivors'
dissociation, 'professional dissociation'. 'Professional dissociation'.
What women want from their maternity carers and why the industrial model
cannot deliver. The disempowerment of midwives. The separation of midwives
and women. The disempowerment of women. Institutionalised childbirth and
sexual abuse. Choice and control - the rhetoric. What is the answer?
Conclusions drawn from the women's positive experiences. Home birth - a
different world. What can be done?