Alyce, Susanna and Taggart, Daniel and Turton, Jackie (2024) Trust, entrusting and the role of trustworthiness for adult survivors of child sexual abuse. Journal of Mental Health. pp. 1-10. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/09638237.2024.2390366
Alyce, Susanna and Taggart, Daniel and Turton, Jackie (2024) Trust, entrusting and the role of trustworthiness for adult survivors of child sexual abuse. Journal of Mental Health. pp. 1-10. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/09638237.2024.2390366
Alyce, Susanna and Taggart, Daniel and Turton, Jackie (2024) Trust, entrusting and the role of trustworthiness for adult survivors of child sexual abuse. Journal of Mental Health. pp. 1-10. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/09638237.2024.2390366
Abstract
Background Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) are reported to have difficulties in trusting. Yet no previous study investigating CSA survivors’ subjective experiences of trust exists and there is a paucity of clinical research into constructs and definitions of “trust.” Aims To use a phenomenological lens to investigate CSA survivors’ descriptions of trust relationships and trustworthy others by privileging their subjective experience. To better understand how trust can be built within therapeutic relationships. Methods A qualitative methodology using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis was conducted within the survivor-research paradigm. The researcher was a person with lived experience of CSA who co-produced the study with CSA survivor advisors and co-constructed interviews with 17 adult CSA survivors. Results Findings present a “Survivor Trust Enactment Model” that delineates the process of building/repairing relational trust and advancing “transactional trust.” Trust is portrayed as nuanced and formed across and according to context, including the demarcation of generalised and relational trust. The findings emphasise that trustees’ trustworthiness is key to building trust which challenges assumptions that survivors are deficient in trust. Conclusion The foregrounding of subjective trust experiences challenges diagnostic and clinical views on trust deficiency in adult CSA survivors. The study develops clinical constructs of trust, considers implications for clinical practice, and indicates areas for further research into trust dynamics in therapeutic relationships.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Child sexual abuse; lived experience; survivor; survivor-research; trauma; trust; trustworthiness |
Divisions: | Faculty of Science and Health Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Science and Health > Health and Social Care, School of Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology and Criminology, Department of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 19 Sep 2024 11:30 |
Last Modified: | 30 Oct 2024 21:07 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/39217 |
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