A5010167117- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies
- Intimate Partner and Family Violence
- Mental Health and Patient Involvement
- Comics and Graphic Narratives
- Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
- Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Digital Communication and Language
- Mental Health via Writing
- Child Welfare and Adoption
- Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
King's College London
2019-2023
University of Suffolk
2023
University of Bristol
2019-2021
Abstract To experience sexual violence and abuse is to silence. This commentary explores some of the ways in which psychiatry reinforces silencing survivors. We argue that current psychiatric responses typically constitute iatrogenic harm including through: a failure provide services meet survivors’ needs, believe or validate disclosures; experiences medicalisation diagnoses can delegitimise people's own knowledge meaning; ‘power over’ relational approaches prevent compassionate result staff...
Experiences of sexual violence, childhood abuse, and assault are common across all societies. These experiences damage physical mental health, coping ability, relationships with others. Given the breadth magnitude impacts, it is imperative that there effective, accessible services to support victim-survivors, ease suffering, empower people cope, recover thrive. Service provision for this population in United Kingdom complex has been hit substantially by austerity. Since positive social can...
Objectives To establish a James Lind Alliance (JLA) Priority Setting Partnership (PSP) to identify research priorities relevant the health and social care needs of adults with lived experience recent and/or historical sexual violence/abuse. Participants Adults (aged 18+ years) violence/abuse (ie, ‘survivors’) were consulted for this PSP, alongside healthcare professionals who support survivors across public, voluntary, community, independent practice enterprise sectors. Methods In line...
Section 28, the last of special measures under Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 to be implemented, was rolled out across England Wales between 2020 2022. This allows vulnerable and/or intimidated witnesses complainants, who have first pre-recorded their evidence-in-chief through a police video-recorded interview, pre-record cross-examination, which is then presented court during substantive trial. article critically explores s. 28 by drawing upon qualitative data from 108...