Seksualinę prievartą patyrusių paauglių merginų traumos įveikos ir motinos komplekso sąsajos

The number of victims of sexual abuse is increasing thus making scholars and practicioners get into the subject. Sexual abuse trauma causes immediate and long-term consequences. Ways of managing posttraumatic difficulties are of great importance. There is no one answer which coping strategies are most effective for sexual abuse trauma coping in adolescence. The aim of the study is to explore the coping of sexual abuse (the connection between the consequences and coping strategies of sexual abuse) and reveal how Mother complex (relationship with the mother and internal representations of relations with the mother) and mother’s sexual abuse is related with the coping of sexual abuse in adolescence. The analysis of factual, experiential and deep level of psychic functioning refers to the complex theory of analytical psychology. The research design is based on the integration of qualitative and quantitative methods to analyze all three levels. To reveal mothers and daughters interrelations more precisely their dyads participated in the research. The results of the study show that sexually abused girls and their mothers estimate their relationship worse compared with the comparative group. The consequences of sexual abuse trauma are closely interrelated with the coping strategies and the relationship with the mother in adolescence. A negative Mother complex of sexually abused girls is related with more intensive trauma symptoms. The results how adolescent girls’ sexual abuse trauma coping may be related to their mothers’ sexual abuse experience are discussed