This second edition provides a comprehensive, social ecological review of women's rape and sexual assault disclosures and how support providers can better respond to them and challenge rape culture.

Sarah E. Ullman, PhD, is Professor of Criminology, Law, and Justice at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Her research focuses on sexual victimization of women and rape’s impact on mental and physical health. Dr. Ullman has conducted multiple longitudinal studies on sexual assault survivors and how social reactions from support sources affect their coping and recovery. She also interviewed survivors and service providers about their disclosure and help-seeking experiences and codeveloped an informal support network intervention for survivors and their social networks. She is conducting a large multimethod, dyadic study to better understand disclosure, social reactions, and their impacts.

Series Foreword
Acknowledgments
An Introduction to Helping Sexual Assault and Rape Survivors
Chapter 1. The Social Context of Talking About Sexual Assault
Chapter 2. Theories of Women’s Rape Disclosure
Chapter 3. Why, How Often, and to Whom Do Women Disclose, and What Factors Influence Whether Disclosure Is Healing?
Chapter 4. What Social Reactions Do Victims Receive When Disclosing Sexual Assault?
Chapter 5. Impacts of Social Reactions on Survivors
Chapter 6. Informal Supporter Providers’ Experiences Responding to and Helping Survivors
Chapter 7. Formal Supporters Helping Survivors: Advocates and Clinicians
Chapter 8: Conducting Interviews With Survivors of Sexual Assault
Chapter 9. Challenging the Rape Culture: Recommendations for Change
References
Index
About the Author