Counselling Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse

Published UK, 2006 (3rd edition) Reprinted 2008
This completely revised and expanded third edition of this well-established text provides comprehesive coverage of the theory and practice of counselling survivors of child sexual abuse (CSA). Additional new material examines how trauma models explain and describe the impact of CSA, and considers CSA in relation to post-traumatic stress disorders and other trauma reactions. Stand-alone chapters provide in-depth coverage of:

+  CSA's impact on survivors' sense of self and their relationships with others
+  Self-harming behaviour, including self-injury, substance abuse and eating disorders
+  How memory is constructed and reconstructed
+  Useful approaches to coping with fear and loss from working with other types of trauma
+  The impact of CSA and trauma on sexuality
+  Working with shame and dissociation

Christiane Sanderson is a lecturer in Psychology at London University, UK.
Paperback. 447 pages