Non-supportive responses to adolescents who have experienced sexual abuse: Relations with self-blame and trauma symptoms.

Background: Youth who have experienced sexual abuse sometimes also experience non-supportive responses, such as accusations of lying, from people in their family and social environment. Little is known about how such responses from different sources (caregivers, friends, other adults) correlate with one another and operate together in the prediction of youth problematic thinking, such as self-blame, and trauma symptoms.

Objective: To better understand how non-supportive responses from different sources relate to one another and contribute to youth problems following sexual abuse.