This article explores the rarely considered role of friends and peers supporting young people after sexual abuse experienced in adolescence, drawing on participatory research with 32 young people in the UK with lived experience. The article considers ways in which relationships with friends and peers interplay with recovery from abuse. This includes friends and peers as recipients of disclosure, conduits to professional support, sources of emotional support and distraction, and being embroiled in often challenging, precarious peer cultures that young people navigate post-abuse. The article explores young people's rationale for, and experiences of, reaching out to friends and peers. It considers what young people seek and gain from these relationships in the aftermath of abuse, while acknowledging complex risks and precarity of these relationships. It argues that support from friends offers something distinct to family and professionals. It explores benefits of these relationships, but also potential for peer responses to undermine wellbeing if not sufficiently supportive or informed. The article ends by arguing for professionals to better recognise and respond to these relational contexts and consider whether there are safe and appropriate ways to ‘support young people to support’ without responsibilisation, and recognising welfare needs of those providing such support.

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“当你需要分享时让你分享”：英国年轻人在经历青春期性虐待后，了解朋友​​和同龄人的潜力和不稳定性

本文探讨了朋友和同龄人在经历青春期性虐待后支持年轻人的很少被考虑的作用，借鉴了对英国 32 名有生活经验的年轻人的参与性研究。这篇文章考虑了与朋友和同龄人的关系与从虐待中恢复的相互作用的方式。这包括作为披露对象的朋友和同龄人、获得专业支持的渠道、情感支持和分心的来源，以及卷入年轻人在受虐后应对的通常具有挑战性、不稳定的同龄文化中。这篇文章探讨了年轻人接触朋友和同龄人的理由和经验。它考虑了年轻人在遭受虐待后从这些关系中寻求和获得的东西，同时承认这些关系的复杂风险和不稳定性。它认为来自朋友的支持为家庭和专业人士提供了不同的东西。它探讨了这些关系的好处，但也探讨了如果没有足够的支持或知情，同伴的反应可能会破坏幸福感。文章最后主张专业人士更好地认识和回应这些关系背景，并考虑是否有安全和适当的方式来“支持年轻人提供支持”而无需承担责任，并认识到提供此类支持的人的福利需求。