Male Sexual Abuse: Case Conference
with Alison Feit, PhD
Join Us on Tuesdays, October 18 and 25, 7:30 p.m.,
Intermediate / Location TBD / 3 credits
Price: $180
Research dating back to the late 1970s has shown that while 1 in 4 women in the US are sexually abused before the age of 18, 1 in 6 American men are similarly sexually abused by the end of their teenage years. However, most of the current thinking about sexual abuse in both public and professional venues has been focused on women and girls, and there is little awareness of the needs of males recovering from sexual trauma. This workshop will examine common psychological sequelae of sexual abuse in men (e.g. depression, anxiety, self-harm, substance abuse etc…) as well as the role of psychosocial, cultural and religious factors in reporting and recovery. Particular emphasis will be placed on effective treatment paradigms as well as transference and countertransference issues that are frequently encountered in work with male survivors.
Objectives:
Participants will be able to identify the specific patterns of psychological trauma common to male survivors of sexual abuse.
Participants will be able to identify common psychological sequelae of male survivors of sexual abuse.
Participants will be able to identify common ‘enactment’ patterns in male survivors of sexual abuse that occur in psychodynamic treatment with these populations.
Participants will gain an in-depth understanding of effective treatment paradigms and the the transference and countertransference issues that are frequently encountered in work with male survivors.,
Readings:
Lindberg, L. D., Maddow-Zimet, I., & Marcell, A. V. (2019). Prevalence of sexual initiation before age 13 years among male adolescents and young adults in the United States. JAMA Pediatrics, 173(6), 553–560. http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamapediatrics.2019.0458
Ports, K. A., Lee, R. D., Raiford, J., Spikes, P., Manago, C., & Wheeler, D. P. (2017). Adverse childhood experiences and health and wellness outcomes among black men who have sex with men. Journal of Urban Health, 94(3), 375–383. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-017-0146-1
Scheidell, J. D., Kumar, P. C., Campion, T., Quinn, K., Beharie, N., McGorray, S. P., & Khan, M. R. (2017). Child sexual abuse and HIV-related substance use and sexual risk across the life course among males and females. Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 26(5), 519–53
Topitzes, J., Pate, D. J., Berman, N. D., & Medina-Kirchner, C. (2016). Adverse childhood experiences, health, and employment: A study of men seeking job services. Child Abuse & Neglect, 61, 23–34.
Voith, L. A., Anderson, R. E., & Cahill, S. P. (2020). Extending the ACEs framework: Examining the relations between childhood abuse and later victimization and perpetration with college men. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 35(17-18), 3487-3512. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260517708406
Williams, J. K., Wilton, L., Magnus, M., Wang, L., Wang, J., Dyer, T. P., Koblin, B. A., Hucks-Ortiz, C., Fields, S. D., Shoptaw, S., Stephenson, R., O’Cleirigh, C., Cummings, V., & HIV Prevention Trials Network 061 Study Team. (2015). Relation of childhood sexual abuse, intimate partner violence, and depression to risk factors for HIV among black men who have sex with men in 6 U.S. cities. American
Journal of Public Health, 105(12), 2473–2481. http://dx.doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2015.302878
