ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Forensic and Legal Psychology
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1602655
This article is part of the Research TopicThe Mental Health Needs of Victim-Survivors of Technology-Assisted Child Sexual AbuseView all articles
Violence as an individual concern: Responding to technology-facilitated sexual violence within Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Provisionally accepted
- 1Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- 2Department of Clinical Science, Faculty of Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Västerbotten, Sweden
- 3The Gender Research School, Umeå, Sweden
- 4Department of Health Sciences, Faculty of Human Sciences, Mid Sweden University, Östersund, Sweden
- 5Department of Social Sciences, Marie Cederschiöld University, Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
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Technology-Facilitated Sexual Violence (TFSV) is an emerging concern in child and adolescent mental health. This article presents an analysis of how child and adolescent psychiatric professionals conceptualize the phenomenon of Technology Facilitated Sexual Violence in relation to their clinical work with patients exposed to this violence type. Through Reflexive Thematic Analysis, we constructed the overarching theme: Violence as an Individual Concern. Our findings are analyzed through the lens of psychiatrization—a societal process that expands the reach of psychiatry, making social issues to psychiatric problems. This research provides critical insights into how the medicalization of TFSV may inadvertently individualize this broader societal issue.
Keywords: technology facilitated sexual violence, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychiatrization of Society, Reflexive thematic analysis, Interviews - methods, Young people
Received: 30 Mar 2025; Accepted: 05 Jun 2025.
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* Correspondence: Frida Carlberg Rindestig, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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