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Domestic Abuse in the UK Sri Lankan Tamil Community: Understanding Shame

Published:10th May 2022
Authors: Phoebe Neville
Categories: Justice and home affairs

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Shame resulting from domestic abuse can have wide-reaching negative consequences for victim-survivors. Shame has been theorised as a transcultural, transdiagnostic, embodied emotion, the experience of which differs according to the norms and expectations of groups. More therefore needs to be understood on behalf of mental health services about the group-specific experiences of shame, to be able to provide targeted support for victim-survivors. 

This research report has been sourced from the UEL Research Repository under licence (CC BY 4.0).

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