[[alternative]]A Study of the Recovery Process of Three Adult Women of Childhood Sexual Abuse--using the perspective of social culture context

[[abstract]]A Study of the Recovery Process of Three Adult Women of Childhood Sexual Abuse -Using the Perspective of Social Culture Context Pey-Yi Lin ABSTRACT The recovery process of three adult women at childhood sexual abuse in the social culture context is studied in this thesis. The purpose of this research herein is to explore the recovery experiences of these childhood sexual abuse women in their lives. This study conducts in-depth interview with considerations and realizations by the semi-structured questionnaire on sexual abuse incidents and the impressive events of development. The results of interviewing had generated lots of written reports that serve as the grounded hermeneutic for analysis. The results are as follows: 1. The traditional social culture and its corresponding values are deeply affected and influenced the recovery plights of these childhood sexual abuse women. The familism, virginity, traditionalism and inequality aspects of gender, once make these survivors hopeless in their recovery lives. The survivors were faced with difficult conditions, such as the familism first than individualism, the loss of virginity meaning the loss of women values and worth, traditional gender-role education limiting the development of female power, the traditional social expectation limiting the development of women career, unequal power relationship shaping the deeply powerless and hopeless of female. 2. It is also found from the recovery experience of these survivors: outside aides such as psychotherapy will vary the homosexuality aptitude and heal the suffering of depressions. Especially, wholly acceptance for survivors through respecting gender issues in psychotherapy is important which can release from and offset the limitation of filial duty and the patriarchal fetish traditionalism. 3. From the investigations, the survivors' recovery experiences are concerning with and affected by the growing background and society culture themselves. Nevertheless, from the view of therapists, the recovery process does not complete and it should focus on the individual character of survivors' strengthened alteration and complement, the positive coping development, and the cognition adjustment. It is markedly for therapists considerate and understand the individual survivors' conditions of theirs growing circumstances and its corresponding society to diminish and to press close to the survivors. 4. It is also obtained in the study, the gender sense has significant relations to sexual abuse treatment. To avoid increasing and remaking the patriarchal myths of female and sexual abuse once again, the therapists who devote themselves to sexual abuse treatment must understand particular records about the frame of feminine background and its corresponding culture. Moreover, the therapist must offer the wholly acceptance to female survivors and utilize the feminist perspective to treating them. Finally, understanding and closely to the sexual abuse experience needs the social context perspective rather than the interpretation of cause and effect. The investigation results and the inferences on the counseling practice are also discussed and described in the final chapter. Moreover, suggestions and further studies are outlined from main results of the research.