Kategoria BISAC: Self-Help >> Abuse

Sexual abuse is a subject that has received and continues to attract a considerable amount of scholarly attention. However, most studies tend to treat sexual abuse as strictly personal and isolated suffering. Following Sexual Abuse attempts to develop a broader perspective on this important issue via narrated accounts of women's experiences. It is a sociological investigation that looks at the connection between the intra-personal and social worlds of victims as revealed through reflexive therapy.

Marie C. Croll explores the transformational space between intra-personal and...

2010 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award from the American Sociological Association; Race, Gender, and Class Section

2008 Finalist, The Society for the Study of Social Problems C. Wright Mills Award

Much has been written about the challenges that face urban African American young men, but less is said about the harsh realities for African American young women in disadvantaged communities. Sexual harassment, sexual assault, dating violence, and even gang rape are not uncommon experiences. In Getting Played, sociologist Jody Miller presents...

2010 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award from the American Sociological Association; Race, Gender, and Class Section

2008 Finalist, The Society for the Study of Social Problems C. Wright Mills Award

Much has been written about the challenges that face urban African American young men, but less is said about the harsh realities for African American young women in disadvantaged communities. Sexual harassment, sexual assault, dating violence, and even gang rape are not uncommon experiences. In Getting Played, sociologist...

Children's exposure to violence (CEV) in their home, their community, and our society has finally been recognized as a serious mental health, social, and public health problem. This book highlights a summary of relevant current research, practice, and policy issues. It is the third in a series to help provide current state-of-the-science information to stimulate awareness, research, and best practices in the field.

This book provides chapters concerning the physiological effects of violence on children, its effects on behavioral and emotional functioning, and differences between...

R.E.P.A.I.R is Recognition, Entry, Process, Awareness, Insight, and Rhythm

Enter a Six-Stage Program with your child to cross the Bridge of Recovery and make available a whole new world of hope:

• Uncover and acknowledge feelings by discovering emotion
• Build self-esteem and optimism with the "Magic Mirror"
• Discern healthy and unhealthy messages
• Learn self-soothing skills with "Dear Diary" letters to the inner-child
• Reveal inner states with picture drawing
• Break free from the confines of false shame
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Coupling stories of how Turley was abused and inflicted abuse upon others, My Darkest Hour offers readers the tools needed to recognize a problem in a relationship and how to transform it. His testimony assures one that such a transformation is possible--given the desire to want to change.

Turley also gives advice on how to...

Empowerment Begins When the Reaction Ends

A compelling journey from Abuse to Energy, Mariane Weigley takes her readers to a greater understanding of the essential idea, You Are More Than You Think You Are. Seeing life and the world from a new perspective can allow the awareness and create the opportunity to change from the inside.

This book advances the premise that we are energy It shares the very personal life stories of emotional abuse, allowing the reader to apply concepts bringing a greater...

Ask yourself...

• Do you feel the need to be frequently checking up on your partner?


• Are you suspicious when you meet new people?


• Do you often question your partner about where they are going and who they are seeing?


• Do you withdraw from your partner without giving an explanation as to why you doing this?


• Do you make all of the social arrangements for your partner's life?


• Have you ever feigned illness to keep your partner at home?


• Are you frightened of being unable to survive without your...

"There is no how-to manual when it comes to helping teenagers with the multitude of issues they'll face during their adolescence. Whether you work with teens or are trying to parent them, you've probably already run into a few things that you felt completely unprepared or ill equipped to deal with. You are not alone In this hard-hitting series of books, you'll find answers to the difficult questions you face when challenges arise. Knowing that ninety-five percent of all the people with diagnosed eating disorders are teenage girls, it's likely that you'll encounter this issue if you...