EDWARDS: A team effort
By Margaret Edwards | October 9, 2013As a community, we tend to want to ask a person who reveals that they were assaulted: “What happened?” We want to know if they said no, or whether the people involved were drinking, and whether the “victim” fought back — as if the answers to these questions determine whether the trauma has occurred or not. Regardless of whether it will stand up in a court of law, if someone calls it trauma, the best thing you can do is to assume that that is how the person experienced it, and support them in seeking help.
