本研究探討女性如何敘說遭受性侵害創傷後的成長與復原經驗。為了脫離受暴的宿命論，其生命發展必須面對的挑戰與付出的代價。訪談童年受性侵害的成年女性，從服務使用者的觀點提出兒少及婦女服務福利制度的改進參考。因此，本研究主要目的在於探討童年受性侵害的成年女性之生命歷程及受助經驗，從中反思兒少與婦女福利政策以及機構之服務如何回應其需求與問題。
以敘事研究為研究方法，共分為三個主要面向的研究問題：（一）需求面：了解童年受性侵害的成年女性從服務中滿足哪些需求？（二）服務面：兒少服務到婦女服務有哪些福利斷層現象？（三）政策面：兒少及婦女福利政策對於兒少及婦女獨立生活有何限制？採用立意取樣方式取得二位研究參與者的同意，訪談過程則依循其步調敘說生命經歷，再依其口述資料與研究者的詮釋整理。最後，形成童年受暴個案與兒少、婦女福利服務及福利政策的關係之研究架構。內容可分為（一）個案：性創傷對個人的自我、人際的影響。（二）服務：受助經驗之正面與負面影響。（三）政策：兒少成長到成年初期的福利斷層現象，成為兒少發展的困難和婦女獨立生活的限制。
研究發現童年受性侵害的成年女性，可能缺乏家人良好的關係，或親密關係的受挫，影響自我與人際的信任與安全感。然而，童年性侵害之正式的、中長期的社會資源嚴重不足。例如，就業條件不佳、居住大不易的處境，造成婦女面臨獨立生活的阻力大增，從創傷中復原需要依靠自己本身的努力，以及重要他人實質及情感的支持力量。最後對於未來實務工作、兒少與婦女福利服務以及政策方向，提供建議之參考。
This research discussed about female post-traumatic growth and recovery experience after sexual abuse. Moreover, it investigated how the challenges and battles the victims should face in order to escape from the fatalism of the abuse. The methodology of this qualitative research was to interview female adults who had experience of being abused in their childhood about their recovery and seeking help process. Based on the victims’ point of view about the process, the researcher tried to find out the disadvantages of the public welfare system. Through the reflection of the public welfare system, this study aimed to explore the improvement of welfare policies as well as how the welfare institutions should respond to victims’ needs and problems.
By using narrative research methodology, this research was divided into three main research questions: (1) Demand side: How the service meets the victims’ needs? (2) Service side: Is there any fault phenomenon about the service from children, teenagers, to female adults? (3) The policy side: Is there any restriction for victims to live independently according to the welfare policy? Purposive sampling approach was applied to this study. Two participants took part in the study. The interview process followed the narrative pace of describing their life experience, and the researcher interpreted all the qualitative data. All the interview content included (1) Personal: self, interpersonal effects of trauma on individuals. (2) Service: explore positive and negative effects on victims seeking help experience. (3) Policy: how the welfare fault phenomenon from children, teenagers, to female adults became the restriction of their independent living.
The research found that good family relationship, or frustrated intimacy may result in victims’ low self- confidence, interpersonal trust and security. However, child sexual abuse may show a long-term serious problem of shortage of social resources. For instance, victims may not be able to find the employment. As consequence, it may impede them to live independently. This research may contribute to the future substantive work on the improvement of children and women's welfare services and policy.
