Pressure to hold the family together, visa worries and fear of social exclusion can make it harder to leave abusive relationships.
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When a person’s story about a traumatic event seems fuzzy, they may be experiencing the nuances of how their brain processes trauma.
Estrangement is rarely caused by childhood abuse or a pushy therapist. Instead, it reveals a collision between two ideas of what family should be.
Not even the #MeToo movement and a reckoning with sexual abuse could rupture the sound-proof walls of South African classical music.
Sexual, physical and emotional abuse, and neglect experienced as a child, can change how a partner’s affection feels as an adult, potentially impacting a romantic relationship.
Former child star Jennette McCurdy’s gross, gripping debut novel shows there is no single, correct way to engage with stories about female desire and power.
Canada’s sport system requires meaningful change that will depend less on identifying problems (which are already well-known) and more on whether governments enforce accountability.
A researcher answers the question many asked when they heard charges of abuse and rape against civil rights icon Cesar Chavez: Why didn’t the women speak earlier about the events from decades ago?
Half of older adults surveyed faced adversity after 60, with abuse and isolation linked to worse physical and mental health.
Emily Brontë’s novel celebrates the head-spinning, hair-raising, all-consuming experience of falling in love.
The conversation around #iwasfifteen sheds light on the dynamics of abusive relationships and the experiences of trafficking victims.
Governments across the world must look at alcohol and its related harms through the eyes of women and children who are mostly affected.
The show is a missed opportunity to to sympathetically explore girlhood in the digital age.
Factors contributing to school violence are found in the family, the community and the school.
Perpetrators used emotional connection to create a sense of closeness early in the relationship, later using it against their victims.
The staircase was originally acquired due to its craftsmanship. Only later did scholars realize that it was where Harriet Jacobs suffered abuse at the hands of her enslaver.
Time limits on civil claims of historical abuse deny justice and silence victims. Law reform would bring NZ into line with Australia and remove barriers to redress.
The public can choose to forget, to preserve the comforting fiction their favourite heartthrob is a ‘good man’.
Witnesses to workplace mistreatment respond with both schadenfreude and empathy, an analysis of 158 studies found.
AI has the potential to help prevent and detect abuse, but only if it avoids bias and is sensitive toward traumatized people’s needs.
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Professor of Psychology, University of Denver
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Professor of Family and Sexual Violence, RMIT University
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Professor, Director, Open Door: Improving the Wellbeing of Veterans, Public Safety Personnel and their Families, Flinders University
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Professor of Law, University of Virginia
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Professor of History and Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan
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Professor of Law and Deputy Director of the Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (CEVAW), The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Monash University
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Reader in Sport Psychology, School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University., Loughborough University
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Associate Professor, University of Waikato
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Head Of Department in Department of Sport & Event Management, Bournemouth University
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Lecturer in Education, University of Newcastle
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Professor of Global & Language Studies, RMIT University
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Professor of Criminology, Monash University
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Professor, School of Economics, Finance and Marketing, RMIT University
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Associate Professor, School of Public Health, Georgia State University