Answer: Educate family member or significan others about the nature and aftereffects of sexual assault is very important when supporting a sexual assault survivor.
Evidence:
1. Family members might experience anger either towards the perpetrator or survivor, and they need to understand that is not the survivor's fault.
2. Family members tend to become over protective and overinvolved, and they have to comprehend that by behiving that way they are underming the survivor's own attempts at reempowerment.
3. Family members sometimes tend to keep the assault as a family secret and don't let the survivors talk about it, and this can deprive the survivor from the opportunity to experience her feelings and and to receive in her recovery.
Source:
- Article # 26c: "Applications of Crisis Intervention" by Annabel Prins and Josef Rusek.
- My service learning: Training for Crisis Intervention Couselors.
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