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Healing from the Trauma of Childhood Sexual Abuse
Karen A. Duncan
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Description for Healing from the Trauma of Childhood Sexual Abuse
paperback. Presents stories from 18 women abused as children, explaining that healing can occur at any stage of life, and that healing, itself, occurs in stages. This book offers guidance to recognize the long-lingering potential affects of childhood sexual abuse including depression, anxiety, dissociation, and chronic shock. Num Pages: 264 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JHB; JM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 158 x 20. Weight in Grams: 416.
The traumatic affects of childhood sexual abuse can remain and recur throughout life for women who have not healed emotionally. This book by a family therapist shares stories from 18 women abused as children, explaining that healing can occur at any stage of life, and that healing, itself, occurs in stages. The author offers guidance to recognize the long-lingering potential affects of childhood sexual abuse including depression, anxiety, dissociation, and chronic shock, and she explains steps to take for recovery. Also presented are letters from women who have healed or are in recovery. Sexual abuse by men, juveniles, and ... Read more
The traumatic affects of childhood sexual abuse can remain and recur throughout life for women who have not healed emotionally. This book by a family therapist shares stories from 18 women abused as children, explaining that healing can occur at any stage of life, and that healing, itself, occurs in stages. The author offers guidance to recognize the long-lingering potential affects of childhood sexual abuse including depression, anxiety, dissociation, and chronic shock, and she explains steps to take for recovery. Also presented are letters from women who have healed or are in recovery. Sexual abuse by men, juveniles, and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
ABC-CLIO United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780313363214
SKU
V9780313363214
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99-50
About Karen A. Duncan
KAREN A. DUNCAN has 22 years clinical experience working with women, children, and families in their recovery from sexual abuse. She has presented at conferences throughout the United States in the education regarding and prevention of sexual abuse. She is the author of a comprehensive adult education program entitled The Right to Be Safe: Adult Education to Prevent Child Sexual ... Read more
Reviews for Healing from the Trauma of Childhood Sexual Abuse
Children should have a safe haven of family love. Sexual abuse makes this impossible. Duncan shares the survival strategies women use to cope with childhood physical and emotional trauma
strategies that include denial, repression, depression, secrecy, and chronic shock that can lead to such lingering problems as mood and eating disorders, substance abuse, dissociation, and self-injury….This book offers theoretical frameworks and ... Read more
strategies that include denial, repression, depression, secrecy, and chronic shock that can lead to such lingering problems as mood and eating disorders, substance abuse, dissociation, and self-injury….This book offers theoretical frameworks and ... Read more