Women's Sexuality After Childhood Incest

Women's Sexuality After Childhood Incest
Author: Elaine Westerlund
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1992
Genre: Adult child sexual abuse victims
ISBN: 9780393701418

This book presents a research study of the sexual attitudes and practices of women with incest histories, including both statistical and anecdotal findings.

Reclaiming Our Lives

Reclaiming Our Lives
Author: Carol Poston
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2001
Genre: Adult child sexual abuse victims
ISBN: 0595179134

It is estimated that at least one in four or five women and one out of ten men was sexually abused as a child by a family member. Most of those people continue to suffer in adulthood because of undeserved guilt, anxiety, and shame. Reclaiming Our Lives, written by a survivor of abuse and a psychotherapist specializing in the treatment of adult survivors of abuse, uses interviews with survivors and a healing approach to track the adult problems and what to do about them. Issues of trust, power, control, sexuality, and intimacy are examined in detail. The book concludes with an alphabet of survival tactics and a fourteen-step guide for growth for the survivor.

Female Sexual Abuse of Children

Female Sexual Abuse of Children
Author: Michele Elliott
Publisher: Guilford Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1994-05-02
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780898620047

This courageous and powerful book is a first step in addressing the secrecy, distress, anger, and fear surrounding female sexual abuse of children. Refuting the rationales for our lack of attention to the problem and contradicting some commonly held beliefs about sexual abuse, it combines accounts from survivors with input from professionals working with both survivors and abusers. Part I presents contributions from professionals who discuss aspects of female sexual abuse ranging from impact and treatment issues for victims of childhood sexual abuse by female perpetrators to the paradox of women who sexually abuse children. The second part is devoted to survivors--it presents stories from both men and women, then provides self-help guidelines for both. The book concludes with a valuable section on resources which includes a review of the existing literature on female child molestation as well as a listing of pertinent books and help organizations. FEMALE SEXUAL ABUSE OF CHILDREN also addresses the controversial issue of current statistics that show that female sexual abuse is very rare and the question of whether it is being underreported due to fear from survivors that they will not be believed or supported. Regardless of the true magnitude of this problem, secrecy or denial about any aspect of child abuse must be avoided. Whatever future studies may show about this problem, it will not diminish this book's importance in taking the step of exploring this issue.

There Is Happiness After Incest and Child Sexual Abuse

There Is Happiness After Incest and Child Sexual Abuse
Author: CeCe Norwood
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 75
Release: 2008-07-31
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1465318771

Living a happy life following incest and child sexual abuse is often elusive to many survivors and a daunting task for those who seek a happy and productive life. Some survivors seek counseling but stop because they don ́t believe they’re improving. Counselors become frustrated because clients are not progressing. Family and partners have no idea how to help. This book will assist survivors, partners, family members and professionals understand a new approach to obtaining happiness following incest and child sexual abuse. By utilizing “The Acceptances”, The “Promises And Permissions”, and invoking “Trigger Busters” survivors will journey to happiness with greater ease and understanding.

REPAIR Your Life

REPAIR Your Life
Author: Marjorie McKinnon
Publisher: Loving Healing Press
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2015-12-04
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1615992723

ÿR.E.P.A.I.R. is a Six-Stage Program for abuse survivors that will transform your life forever! Recognize and accept your adult problems stemming from childhood sexual abuse.Enter into a commitment to transform your life.Process your issues with tools and techniques that will enable you to become healthy.Awareness to discover reality as you gather and assemble the pieces of the broken puzzle your life became.Insight into the complete picture helps you begin to return to what you were prior to being sexually violated.Rhythm recovers the natural rhythm you had before the incest happened, the blueprint that is the essence of your true nature, becoming who you really are. Therapists' Acclaim forÿREPAIR Your Life "REPAIR Your Life is one of several significant books by a woman who writes openly and perceptively, using her own experiences to take us down her path to an ultimately fulfilling life. This is an important book." --Vincent J. Felitti, MD, co-principal investigator of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study "Thank you Marjorie and God bless you for adapting this program for our survivors to follow. You have given survivors hope to continue on their healing journey." --Donna Gustafson, Executive Director, Sunrise Center Against Sexual Abuse "This program just has to work, because whether intuitively or through research, Marjorie McKinnon has assembled a highly effective program of recovery." --Bob Rich, PhD, psychologist Special editions also available for teenagers, children 6-12, and toddlers. www.TheLampLighters.org for more information or to find a support group in your area.

Secret Survivors

Secret Survivors
Author: E. Sue Blume
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Total Pages: 364
Release: 1998-01-20
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN:

Focusing on the later manifestations of incest, this reference offers a diagnostic aftereffects checklist, suggestions for healthy, rather than neurotic, coping mechanisms, and therapeutic treatment strategies.

Healing my Life: From Incest to Joy

Healing my Life: From Incest to Joy
Author: Donna Jensen
Publisher: Off the Common Books
Total Pages: 443
Release: 2019-06-17
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

In chronicling the physical and spiritual steps she took to reclaim her life and peel away the layers of damage done by incest, Jenson has written a powerful narrative of one person’s healing journey. And though the subject matter is deeply serious, Jenson writes with her sense of humor firmly intact, reminding us that joy is possible in the face of great pain. Poignant, brave, and helpful, Healing My Life offers a much-needed testimony for anyone affected by or concerned about childhood sexual abuse. “Healing My Life is a story that is unique and personal in its detail, yet also universal and human in its impact. If we could raise even one generation without violence or shaming, we have no idea what might be possible.” —Gloria Steinem “What an accomplishment! Taking the raw pain of incest, Donna Jenson has offered the world a generous dose of hope and delivered a clear message to survivors: healing is possible. Everyone who has survived childhood sexual abuse is stronger knowing each other’s journey. By eloquently sharing hers, Donna reminds us of a simple truth: we can heal.” —Marilyn Vanderbur, Miss America 1958 who survived incest

Exploring the Sexual Self-schemas of Adult Female Survivors of Childhood Incest

Exploring the Sexual Self-schemas of Adult Female Survivors of Childhood Incest
Author: Cynthia M. Baker
Publisher:
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2015
Genre:
ISBN: 9781321986273

Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) is a debilitating crime resulting in significant consequences to a survivor's mind, body, and spirit. Although there is much awareness of, and a plethora of research regarding the sequelae of CSA for survivors, there is nonetheless a scarcity of research focusing on how this population constructs their sexual self-schemas and self-concepts, and subsequently, how they see themselves as a sexual being in adulthood. Whereas there is some explanation of sexual self-schemas for survivors of CSA, most of this research combines survivors of extrafamilial and intrafamilial (i.e., incest) CSA into one sexually abused group, typically comparing the findings with persons who have not experienced sexual abuse. This creates difficulty in determining the experiences of different types of survivors. For these reasons, the mental health community is limited in awareness of how to best assist survivors of incest who struggle with developing healthy sexual views of self and identity.

Surviving Child Sexual Abuse

Surviving Child Sexual Abuse
Author: Liz Hall
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 420
Release: 1993
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780750701525

This is the second edition of a handbook for survivors of child sexual abuse and their helpers, featuring added material on the acknowledgement of survivors' strengths, the effect of sexual abuse on adult female sexuality and therapeutic themes.

Secret Trauma

Secret Trauma
Author: Diana E.h. Russell
Publisher: New York : Basic Books
Total Pages: 512
Release: 1986-06-09
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN:

Presents the results of a study on sexually abused girls based on in-depth interviews with 930 women from a variety of backgrounds.