Abstract
Currently, the studies on sexual abuse trauma, and resilience in Confucian survivors are still limited. The purpose of this study is to explore the resilience of Confucian women after sexual abuse trauma to provide evidence to support in counseling and psychotherapy practices. The article describes the resiliency story of a Vietnamese Confucian female survivor who was abused by her brother from the age of 8 to 16. The life history approach used in qualitative narrative research was applied in this study. The researcher identified two factors that strongly influence the survivor’s resilience: (1) the effectiveness of passive education in the general education curriculum is oriented to both competence and quality development; and (2) an authentic understanding of the core Confucian philosophical doctrine: the neutrality and the self-nurture. Based on the findings, we propose a 7-stage flow diagram of a Confucian women's resilience following sexual abuse. These findings provide a new approach to psychological counseling for female survivors of any religion by using Confucian philosophy and contribute to the impact of studies on religious and spiritual factors affecting the resilience of sexual abuse survivors.
Highlights
An overview of childhood sexual abuse Child sexual abuse (CSA) is a traumatic experience that happens across countries, races, religions, classes, and cultures and has lifelong effects
The main findings are presented and they are illustrated with quotations extracted from the transcripts (Giang, 2021)
L’s mental and spiritual resources: The passive effect of the education curriculum and the most authentic perception of Confucian philosophy In L’s story, we discovered two factors influencing her resilience: the passive effect of the educational program, and Confucianism
Summary
An overview of childhood sexual abuse Child sexual abuse (CSA) is a traumatic experience that happens across countries, races, religions, classes, and cultures and has lifelong effects. There have been a lot of previous studies done to understand, support, and heal the survivors. These studies can be divided into three groups: (1) studies on the CSA's traumatic experience and causes (Blakemore et al, 2017; Murray et al, 2014; Stoltenborgh et al, 2011); (2) studies on CSA prevention (Barron & Topping, 2013; Rudolph & Zimmer-Gembeck, 2018; Rudolph et al, 2018); and (3) studies on support, intervention and healing the SAT (Adams et al, 2018; Sanjeevi et al, 2018). This research is the result of the efforts of various countries, communities, and societies working together to protect children's rights
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