Transforming Trauma: A Guide to Understanding and Treating Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse

Transforming Trauma: A Guide to Understanding and Treating Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
ISBN-10
1506319033
ISBN-13
9781506319032
Series
Transforming Trauma
Category
Family & Relationships
Pages
376
Language
English
Published
1995-05-31
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Author
Anna Salter

Description

Practitioners helping adult survivors of child sexual abuse need to be aware of the thought processes of offenders. The premise of Anna Salter's major book is that those who do not recognize an internalized perpetrator when they hear one will often be frustrated by the tenacity of the survivor's self blame. Primarily oriented towards treating adult survivors, this invaluable book will also be useful for treating sex offenders. It includes discussion of crucial issues such as: what clinicians who treat survivors need to know about sex offenders; the different ways sadistic and nonsadistic offenders think and the resulting different `footprints' they leave in the heads of survivors; how trauma affects survivors' world-views;

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