Essay On Suicidality

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Suicidality has also been associated with CSA (Briere & Runtz, 1986; Bryer, Nelson, Miller, & Krol, 1987). Kristensen & Lau (2007), found that 39% had attempted suicide on at least one occasion, and over 50% attempted more than once. Bagley and Ramsay (1986), concluded that CSA victims (n = 83) had significantly higher frequency of suicide plans and/or deliberate self-harm or suicide attempts (5% vs. 0%). However, 81% of them reported that they were suffering with stress and other problems. This serves as a problem because these variables could have been the cause of the suicide attempt or thoughts and not necessarily the abuse. They also speculated that force can be a factor here. Suicidality without force or the threat of force was not correlated …show more content…

Child who subsequently have positivity in school experiences and succeed socially, academically or even in extracurricular activities had lower rates in adult difficulties. Good parental relationship and/or model figures also help (Joseph & Jacob, 2007). Establishing relationships in adulthood helps lessen the impact of CSA (Romans et al. 1995; Spaccarelli & Kim, 1995). It also takes the society as a hold to help in the problem in forming appropriate support groups. Developing and refining different strategies may help victims resolve the different impact of the …show more content…

The perspectives I will choose for this study is the traumagenic model (Finkelhor, 1988) and multifaceted models of traumatization (Kendall-Tacket et al., 1993). Established from the literate we know that a child is anyone below the age of 18 and CSA takes into account both contact and non-contact sexual relations with children. It will be very difficult to put a time constrain on the term “long term effects”, therefore, we will just leave it as effects that persist with a person over a period of

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