"Unless they bring it up, I won't go digging": Psychiatric nurses' experiences of developing therapeutic relationships with adult survivors of child sexual abuse

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2022-04-05
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Walsh, Chloe
Bradley, Stephen K.
Goodwin, John
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John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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10.1111/ppc.13085
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Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore psychiatric nurses' experiences of developing therapeutic relationships with adult survivors of child sexual abuse (CSA). Design and Methods: A qualitative descriptive design was adopted. Semistructured interviews were conducted with six registered psychiatric nurses. Data were analyzed using reflexive thematic analysis. Findings: Although participants were able to develop therapeutic relationships with survivors and cited the importance of interpersonal skills, they felt uncomfortable discussing CSA. Practice Implications: Given the importance of developing trusting relationships, more support needs to be provided for nurses so they can build stronger alliances with survivors of CSA.
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Child sexual abuse , CSA , Qualitative research , Therapeutic relationships
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Walsh, C., Bradley, S. K. and Goodwin, J. (2022) 'Unless they bring it up, I won't go digging: Psychiatric nurses' experiences of developing therapeutic relationships with adult survivors of child sexual abuse', Perspectives in Psychiatric Care. doi: 10.1111/ppc.13085
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© 2022, the Authors. Perspectives in Psychiatric Care published by Wiley Periodicals LLC. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.