In 2022, China issued a Work on the Inspection of Minors. Among them, the total number of crimes against minors has decreased, but sexual assault cases are still on the rise. With the development of the Internet, the problem of sexual assault has gradually worsened. What kind of psychological changes do these traumatized children experience?

Children who are aware of sexual abuse can quickly fall into a state of world collapse if they do not receive timely help. In some cases committed by acquaintances, according to the child’s previous cognition, these people can not be trusted? In this way, the child will lose the most basic trust in himself and the world, and fall into a kind of denial of himself and the world. Surrounded by a great sense of insecurity, become easily frightened, very anxious, difficult to integrate into the environment, difficult to interact with others, and eventually fall into isolation. However, in the adolescent period, children’s need for peer recognition and communication is very strong, and if this need is not met, it will cause great psychological damage.

And those who are unaware of the abuse may suffer greater psychological trauma later on. Even if you didn’t know anything at the time, the experience will be remembered in your brain because it was so weird and physically painful, but you don’t always know nothing about sex. It wasn’t until the sexual assault was understood and the memories came flooding back that the cliff collapsed. However, this has become the past that cannot be changed at all. At this time, many children who have been sexually abused will regret, hate the past themselves, sink in the past that cannot be changed, and cannot face the future.

Psychological Changes of Victims after Sexual Assault / Meiling Feng / Education Futures: KIPP & Futures Project (2024-25) by Mewling Feng is licensed under a 知识共享署名CC BY 3.0