Survivor's Narratives of Early Childhood Sexualized Violence

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dc.contributor.authorLindner, Kylee
dc.contributor.supervisorKakuru, Doris
dc.contributor.supervisorKaur Mucina, Mandeep
dc.date.accessioned2023-08-29T21:29:51Z
dc.date.available2023-08-29T21:29:51Z
dc.date.copyright2023en_US
dc.date.issued2023-08-29
dc.degree.departmentSchool of Child and Youth Careen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis adopts a Critical Feminist Research methodology to reveal how young children (6 years old and under) resist, respond to and heal from sexualized violence. Using memoirs that include first-person narratives as the data set, I utilized reflexive thematic analysis to sort the data into the following themes; “Resistance”; “Survival Techniques”; and “Healing”. Additionally, themes of narrative theory and response-based practice were utilized to collect and sort data. Ultimately, this thesis reveals a disparity between the highlighted academic literature and the selected memoirs. More specifically, the academic literature sparsely included first-person narratives, largely utilized third party evaluators and promoted a single story of damage. Whereas, the selected memoirs revealed multiple stories of resistance, healing, survival, pride, and determination. This thesis argues that the current state of psychology’s academic literature contributes to victim blaming, rape culture and structural violence. Based on this thesis, I recommend that psychology researchers shift their focus away from the damage narrative and towards a narrative of dignity.en_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/15305
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectcritical feminist researchen_US
dc.subjectreflexive thematic analysisen_US
dc.subjectsexualized violenceen_US
dc.subjectchild sexual abuseen_US
dc.subjectresponse based practiceen_US
dc.subjectresistanceen_US
dc.titleSurvivor's Narratives of Early Childhood Sexualized Violenceen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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