“It is refreshing to find child therapists ready to engage with sexually abused children by incorporating trauma theory and research, addressing child protection and seeing themselves as part of a team that includes the carers. The authors provide an overview of phases of treatment, theoretical considerations and essential skills. They emphasis the importance of relationship and explore its impact on the therapist. Their approach is creative and child-centered. Case vignettes, poems and exercises promote empathy with the child’s perspective. There is a useful chapter on cultural issues and the needs of children in alternative care…. this is an excellent primer for the child’s helping network” – COMMUNITY CARE
Therapeutic Work with Sexually Abused Children is a creative and practical guide for professionals working directly with those who have suffered sexual abuse and for their careers. The trauma of sexual abuse experienced in childhood can be severe and enduring. Therapeutic support is offered to help both the child and the family cope with psychological or emotional difficulties both currently and in later life.
Therapists must be able to respond effectively to the child victim in a sensitive and timely way which prioritizes the needs of each child. Drawing on their experience as practitioners, the authors explore the reactions which children commonly experience following abuse and examine the tasks of the therapist in responding to them.
The book covers:
- the theory, skills and process of therapeutic work
- children’s coping and defense mechanisms
- career involvement
- professional issues
Child sexual abuse is an issue which crosses professional boundaries and requires an integrated, inter-professional approach. Therapeutic Work with Sexually Abused Children will therefore be of interest to those undertaking specialist work or training in this area including social workers, psychotherapists, counsellors, psychologists, and health and education professionals.
This volume presents the results of five studies of suggestibility in children’s recollections, with important implications for psychological and legal practice with children alleged to have been abused.
In response to public and political concern about the sexual abuse of children, the Department of Health commissioned a feasibility study for a national survey of the prevalence of child sexual abuse. This report documents the work and conclusions of that study, which addresses a number of methodological, procedural and ethical issues, including the problems of definition, context, approach and presentation. A total of 25 in-depth interviews and 127 survey interviews were carried out.
Despite heightened media attention and the increase in professional knowledge about child abuse, many children are still being failed by the system. This book addresses in depth the acute practice dilemmas concerning children who, despite the climate of increased awareness, multi-disciplinary cooperation and legislative and procedural change, cannot easily be protected.
This work looks at child prostitution in 20th-century England, tracing the roots of a contemporary problem which has been the subject of increased publicity and concern. It uncovers a mass of new evidence to indicate the extent of the phenomenon from the late 19th century to the present day, arguing that child prostitution is a significant aspect of child abuse, and one of the clearest ways in which “deviant” groups can be conceived of as both victims and threats. The picture of child prostitution emerging from this book is one of exclusion from mainstream society and the law, and remoteness from the agencies set up to help young people in trouble which were often reluctant to accept the realities of child prostitution. Child prostitutes were not wholly victims, and motivations to enter prostitution have included, amongst other things, the desire for a level of income they are unable to obtain in other ways, and which provided a means of independence. Yet the evidence provided in this book indicate that the circumstances which have led children into prostitution since the early 1900s amount, at worst, to physical or psychological abuse or neglect, and at best as the result of limited choice.
Sexual, Physical, and Emotional Abuse in Out-of-Home Care brings into the open current or past sexually, physically, or emotionally abusive behaviors between children or between children and their caregivers in out-of-home care and helps prevent future victimization. The curriculum gives you 20 exercises that promote respectful and nurturing interactions among caregivers and children by offering healthy concepts of touching, communication, and boundaries. By implementing the concepts in this curriculum, you’ll help create positive, healthy attachments for children in out-of-home care who may feel abandoned and alone. Exercises in Sexual, Physical, and Emotional Abuse in Out-of-Home Care assist children and caregivers in understanding their rights and others’rights in residential treatment centers and group or foster homes. Exercises focus on:
Reference source for pediatricians and other clinicians who work with abused children. Part One is an annotated bibliography, sorted by subject. Part Two lists agencies and services. Contains reproductions of AAP policies and guidelines. Softcover. 
