The Effect of Educator Support on Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse: Attachment Security & Posttraumatic Stress Severity

= 148) completed retrospective surveys of educator relationships, current attachment profiles, and current levels of PTSS. Results of multivariate regression analyses indicate that higher levels of educator emotional support during schooling were associated with (a) lower levels of avoidant attachment in adulthood and (b) lower levels of PTSS in adulthood, specifically among participants with scores in the clinically elevated range. Findings varied among the subgroup of participants (20%) endorsing that their teachers had knowledge of their CSA. Educator relationships remain understudied in the lives of students with trauma histories. This study represents a first step in examining the impact of educator relationships on survivors of CSA and highlights both the need for further research and the importance of trauma-responsive teacher training to better serve youth with histories of CSA.