TY  - SER
AU  - Townsend, Harriet
TI  - The imposition of a coerced autonomy : : suicidal “bad girls,” human service professionals, and gender bias
PY  - 2024///
PB  - Sage, 
KW  - CHILD PROTECTION
KW  - CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE
KW  - FAMILY VIOLENCE
KW  - MENTAL HEALTH
KW  - RISK FACTORS
KW  - SEXUAL VIOLENCE
KW  - SOCIAL SERVICES
KW  - SUICIDE
KW  - TRAUMA
KW  - YOUNG WOMEN
KW  - INTERNATIONAL
KW  - AUSTRALIA
N1  - Affilia, 2024, First published online, 23 July 2024,  39(3), 443-462
N2  - Through a thematic analysis of four cases of suicide by young women identified from the National Coronial Information System, I apply a gendered lens to understanding the ways in which human service professionals’ expectations of feminine behavior, led them to view these young women as “bad girls” and imposed a disempowering “coerced autonomy” framework onto them. In this framework, the girls were held responsible for factors that caused their distress but were denied self-determination in their diagnosis and/or treatment. I aim to broaden our understanding of how gendered expectations can have fatal consequences. (Author's abstract). Record #8923
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1177/08861099231209760
ER  -