Sexual Abuse in Sport: A Qualitative Case Study

Sexual Abuse in Sport: A Qualitative Case Study
ISBN-10
3319467956
ISBN-13
9783319467955
Category
Psychology
Pages
128
Language
English
Published
2016-11-22
Publisher
Springer
Author
Helen Owton

Description

This book is about sexual abuse in sport, and specifically about one girl’s experience of long-term chronic abuse in sport. A ‘non-conventional’ approach is employed to explore the experiences of a female athlete named Bella who was groomed, sexually abused by her male coach, and then subjected to years of athlete domestic violence. Through a collaborative auto-ethnography process, these experiences are reported through vignettes and selected poems seeking to involve the reader in the grooming process of a young female athlete, so that they might react from the different social positions they currently occupy. Bella’s story acts as a pedagogical resource in ways that stimulate ethical discussions and enhance knowledge of sexual abuse in sport, by assisting those involved to better understand their own ‘field’ and the dynamics of abuse within it, in order to develop effective abuse prevention strategies.

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