Journal article
Relationship Difficulties Postrape: Being a Male Intimate Partner of a Female Rape Victim in Cape Town, South Africa
Health care for women international, Vol.35(7-9), pp.1081-1105
01/01/2014
DOI: 10.1080/07399332.2014.916708
PMID: 24821128
Abstract
In a longitudinal phenomenological study, the lived experience of being a male intimate partner (MIP) of a female rape victim in Cape Town, South Africa, is presented. Nine men participated in four face-to-face, semistructured interviews. The authors describe changes in communication and sexual intimacy postrape and how these changes spiralled into a dysfunctional relationship. Participants were interested in interventions for both partners and particularly for education to improve their communication and sexual relationships postrape. Researchers need to reconsider existing policies related to training programs to develop interventions that can address the needs of couples postrape and, ultimately, enhance their recovery.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Relationship Difficulties Postrape: Being a Male Intimate Partner of a Female Rape Victim in Cape Town, South Africa
- Creators
- Evalina van Wijk - Cape Peninsula University of TechnologyTracie C. Harrison - The University of Texas at Austin
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Health care for women international, Vol.35(7-9), pp.1081-1105
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- DOI
- 10.1080/07399332.2014.916708
- PMID
- 24821128
- ISSN
- 0739-9332
- eISSN
- 1096-4665
- Number of pages
- 25
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/01/2014
- Academic Unit
- Nursing
- Record Identifier
- 9984696726102771
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