Kategoria BISAC: Family & Relationships >> Abuse - General

The condemnation of wartime sexual violence as a gross violation of human rights has received widespread support. While rape and other forms of sexual violence have attracted considerable local and international attention, this often excludes wartime sexual violence among women belonging to so-called 'perpetrator' war-torn nations. This book explores the silence surrounding women's experiences of wartime sexual violence within academic, legal and public discourses. Olivera Simic argues that the international criminal law and feminist legal discourse on wartime sexual violence can construct...

Written by experts with a combined 50 years of experience teaching and researching in the field of domestic abuse, Intimate Partner Violence: Effective Procedure, Response, and Policy provides practical instruction for practitioners and lay people responding to domestic violence, as well as ideas for policymakers working to create solutions to the violence. Narratives by victims of intimate partner abuse provide a framework from which students and practitioners can assess address problems of domestic abuse.

This book focuses on what can be practically done to address the...

Everyone wants the fairy tale, but fairy tales don't come easy when the marriage is battling to overcome past shame, sin and betrayal. Shannon Deitz divulges in the early struggles of her marriage to Neal as they overcome sexual intimacy issues, abusive behaviors toward one another that bleed into their parenting and the imminent threat of an extramarital affair and divorce. Redeemed reveals the self-destructive behavior Shannon was led into because of the shame of rape and guilt of self-imposed inexcusable sin. Shannon unfolds this truth through the continuation of her journey in...

Presence after trauma is an ongoing exploration of willingness to accept what is, and willingness to allow it to change. With this book, gather gentle, effective healing tools, including the many facets of acceptance. Discover your body's structure so you can move more fluidly and take up space confidently. Even in the face of abusive and everyday gaslighting, rebuild self-trust. Manage ongoing trauma effects more skillfully and know that hard times will still come and go. Leave behind the isolation of trauma to rejoin the challenges and rewards of relating. You deserve to exist exactly...

Winner of these international book awards (1st edition of "Police Wife"):

- American Society of Journalists and Authors' Arlene Book Award for Writing that Makes a Difference

- Hollywood Book Festival non-fiction book award (runner-up)

- eLit Book Awards (silver)

- INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards (bronze)

- Next Generation Indie Book Awards (finalist)

_____________________

"EXCELLENT JOB.... An important read." - Det. Albert Seng, PhD, Retired, Tucson Police Department, Arizona

"AMY'S STORY MIRRORS MINE IN SO MANY WAYS.... All of us...

Bullet Proof is a collection of personal testimonies creatively written to openly explore how nine traumatic and real-life experiences (bullets) were able to graze the author, but not one was able to penetrate and destroy her (thanks to God's unfailing love and ever-present existence in her life). In addition, readers will also learn how to recognize, survive, heal and learn from their own life's storms with tried and true revelations in which the author was led to share.

Written to encourage, inspire and uplift, this book is an absolute "must read" for...