Sexual Violence Against Adolescent Girls: Labeling It to Avoid Normalization

• DOI: 10.1089/jwh.2016.6161
• Publication Date: 2017-03-20T10:44:58Z
• Authors: Giussy Barbara; Federica Collini; Cristina Cattaneo; Federica Facchin; Paolo Vercellini; Laura Chiappa; Alessandra Kuster...
• Keywords: Sexual Violence

Violence against women is a pervasive complex phenomenon that destroys women's feelings of love, trust, and self-esteem. In this commentary, we specifically focus on sexual violence adolescent girls, whose impact particularly harmful since it may lead to impaired mental health, social functioning, neurodevelopment. Between 12% 25% girls throughout the world experience violence, very often perpetrated by family member or friend. Moreover, for an alarming proportion first coerced. article, review multiple negative effects girls. We also report data derived from our practice in public Italian referral Centre Sexual Domestic (SVSeD) address importance multidisciplinary clinical approach with victims violence.