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Understanding the need for personal space boundary restoration in women‐client survivors of intrafamilial childhood sexual abuse
Author(s) -
Geanellos Rene
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
international journal of mental health nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.911
H-Index - 54
eISSN - 1447-0349
pISSN - 1445-8330
DOI - 10.1046/j.1440-0979.2003.00288.x
Subject(s) - conceptualization , sexual abuse , personal space , psychology , space (punctuation) , boundary (topology) , psychotherapist , nursing , psychiatry , medicine , clinical psychology , social psychology , suicide prevention , poison control , medical emergency , mathematical analysis , linguistics , philosophy , mathematics , artificial intelligence , computer science
A large volume of literature exists on childhood sexual abuse (CSA) and nursing literature on this topic continues to develop. However, discussion of boundaries in relation to intrafamilial childhood sexual abuse (ICSA) and to its significance in terms of personal space boundary (PSB) violation, is lacking. This is important, as PSB violation creates difficulties for adult survivors of ICSA and for nurses who care for these people as clients. As all experiences of CSA cannot be addressed, discussion focuses on women who are clients of mental health services and who have experienced ICSA. Using Scott's work on boundaries and her diagrammatic conceptualization of PSBs, links are created between ICSA boundary violation, resultant PSB regulation difficulties and principles to guide nursing practice. Discussion centres on understanding the need for PSB restoration in women‐client survivors of ICSA.