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An Integrated Systems Model for Preventing Child Sexual Abuse

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Abstract

The Trinidadian artist Candice Sobers depicts the gendered roles of a woman in her painting Self Sacrifice. The woman’s inability to escape her lived realities of suppression is portrayed; they are overwhelm- ing and all-encompassing, but hope and renewal are also manifest. Disadvantage, oppression and a yearning for betterment intersect in a Caribbean milieu; her arms outstretched and reaching for her- self — outward and within. Sobers describes ‘Self Sacrifice’ as a ‘silent suffering and repressed existence’ (Candice Sobers, personal com- munication, 14 January 2014).

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  1. Centre for Applied Childhood Studies, University of Huddersfield, UK

    Adele D. Jones PhD (Professor of Social Work and former Director)

  2. Organizational Psychologist and Freelance Consultant, Barbados

    Ena Trotman Jemmott PhD

  3. The University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago

    Priya E. Maharaj PhD

  4. The Sweet Water Toundation, Grenada

    Hazel Da Breo PhD

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Jones, A.D., Jemmott, E.T., Maharaj, P.E., Breo, H.D. (2014). Women’s Spaces, Voices and Action. In: An Integrated Systems Model for Preventing Child Sexual Abuse. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137377661_4

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