Society's Response to Survivors
A detailed social ecological review delves into the dynamics behind rape and sexual assault disclosures and the retraumatizing impact of negative social reactions. Updated research highlights emerging findings from the MeToo movement and diverse groups, offering vital strategies to help empower survivors and aid their healing.
This second edition provides a comprehensive, social ecological review of women's rape and sexual assault disclosures and how support providers can better respond to them and challenge rape culture.
 
Women who have been raped and sexually assaulted are often retraumatized by negative social reactions from family and friends, healthcare professionals, institutions, and society at large.
 
Sarah Ullman educates supporters on more appropriate responses that empower survivors and help them heal. Drawing on interviews with survivors and support providers, she offers powerful, provocative insights to therapists, other frontline workers assisting survivors, researchers, and students.
 
She reviews transtheoretical research on why, how often, and to whom women disclose the impact of social contexts on disclosures and social reactions from informal support networks and professionals in a variety of institutional settings.
 
New to this edition is updated research addressing social media, social phenomena like the MeToo movement, and informal supporters amp rsquo experiences with survivors. While most research still focuses on White, heterosexual, and cisgender women, emerging findings on LGBTQ+ individuals, cis males, people of color, and people with disabilities are reviewed where available.