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An Online Resource Library on Domestic & Sexual Violence
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It reports on current research suggesting that victims experience a variety of negative mental health effects from sexual assault, including post-traumatic stress symptoms. It describes how rape survivors may struggle with how family and friends are reacting to the assault and may have to cope with secondary victimization experiences they encounter in some post-rape help seeking. It highlights a wide variety of issues rape survivors may present in therapy.
Routinely asking all individuals about accommodation needs gives the program information that enables them to provide appropriate accessible services. The protocol includes a recommended policy and procedures that cover initial contact and crisis intervention, providing ongoing services, a sample of screening questions and a reprint from Northwest Justice Project on signing documents when physically unable.
