The impacts of sexual violence are most commonly understood via trauma or mental health frameworks.
But we believe that sexual violence cannot be separated from a broader social context – one in which the victim, the offender, and the violation itself exist in a larger system of social norms, relations and inequities.
Community-based sexual assault centre services are rooted in a comprehensive and socially-contextualized analysis of sexual violence. In this way, our counselling models can differ from medical and mental health frameworks, including psychotherapy.
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