1st Edition

Surviving Child Sexual Abuse A Handbook For Helping Women Challenge Their Past

By Liz Hall, Siobhan Lloyd Copyright 1993
412 Pages
by Routledge

416 Pages
by Routledge

416 Pages
by Routledge

Surviving Child Sexual Abuse" is a handbook for survivors and their helpers. It examines what sexual abuse entails for a child and why it happens. Personal and professional issues for helpers are addressed and the long term effects of sexual abuse are examined. The strengths of survivors are acknowledged together with the supportive alliances they have formed with partners, helpers and friends.... Read more
Issues for helpers; problems in adulthood; strengths of survivors; seeking help; stages of recovery; disclosure; themes in therapeutic work; sexuality; survivors' groups; therapeutic techniques; training for working with survivors; conclusions. Appendices: poems by survivors; hidden memories; useful books.

Biography

Liz Hall, Siobhan Lloyd