This is a small handbook for children about the effects of sexual abuse.

I Told My Secret: A Book for Kids Who Were Abused

Children's Books

Gil, Eliana

Growing Up & Facts of Life

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When You're Ready: A Woman's Healing from Childhood Physical and Sexual Abuse by Her Mother

Evert, Kathy

Bijkerk, Inie

Self-Help

This is a practical, down to earth guide for mental health professionals assisting adult survivors of childhood abuse. Short and long term effects of abuse are presented, (as well as clinical findings from 99 survivors), setting a foundation for the type of therapeutic response most helpful. Assessment of victims who characteristically do not self disclose is emphasized. Specific treatment "phases" are presented with clear goals in each phase. Special issues such as dissociative phenomena, trauma resolution, and group therapy are highlighted.

Treatment of Adult Survivors of Childhood Abuse

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Prisoner of Innocence

Montegna, Donna

This groundbreaking book, written by a male survivor, makes explicit the isolation and stigmatization of male survivors and discusses the fear and conflict of disclosure. Men and women survivors share many common concerns such as guilt,isolation,shame and low self esteem. The issues unique to male survivors are discussed in a candid and sensitive manner. Focus is maintained on hope and recovery through a 12-step model of spiritual and emotional growth and development.

Men Surviving Incest: A Male Survivor Shares the Process of Recovery

Thomas, T.

Abuse

This book is written for individuals with multiple personalities, and explains what multiplicity is, why it develops, how to understand it,and when and how to seek help. Multiples have too long suffered with nagging worries about being crazy or so unique that they cannot have friends or companionship. This book defines multiplicity as a creative and life saving adaptive strategy, not as a disorder or sign of mental illness.

United We Stand: A Book for People With Multiple Personalities

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

Introduction No emotion has the potential to inform us more about our selves than does shame. Unfortunately, many of us grew up in families where we were exposed to parental behaviors that induced too much shame. In childhood, carefully measured and small doses of shame lead to the formation of conscience and the capacity for emotional growth and integration. This optimal amount of shame is experienced as feeling exposed as someone who is in some way lacking. It is a temporary and tolerable feeling that is released as soon as it is acted upon. Thus, optimal shame can be used to improve ourselves and our relationships. On the other hand, too much shame is poisonous to the developing child self because it is internalized; that is, it becomes a lasting part of the self. Instead of having useful information about the self that would motivate corrective measures that release shame, the child forms an enduring core belief that says "I'm bad and unlovable," or some variation on this theme. This belief follows the child into adulthood and is experienced as shame-the painful feeling of being inferior, inadequate, or defective as a person. Too much shame is responsible for low self-esteem as well as difficulties in forming and maintaining close relationships. 
This book is about how too much shame is induced in children as certain parental messages are taken into the developing self. These negative messages sever the crucial attachment bod between parent and child and thus activate shame. I will explain how these messages are communicated and how each results in a different shame-based core belief about the self. Readers who were subjected to various combinations of such messages will learn how to counter them and create a new sense of self based on positive self-esteem.

Rising Above Shame: Healing Family Wounds to Self Esteem

Wilson, Stanley

Small Sips of Water: Understanding Dissociation in Recovery

O'Conner, Madeline Adler

Medical Books

This book is the first self-help manual for mutiple personality disorder. The fact that it is written by someone with MPD is evident throughout, in that this is an insider's view,and written from the heart. At the same time, the manual is balanced and sensible, and reviews the diagnosis and treatment of MPD accurately and in detail.

Living With Your Selves: A Survival Manual for People With Multiple Personalities

Hocking, Sandra J.

Psychology & Counseling

Sexualized Children: Assessment and Treatment of Sexualized Children and Children Who Molest

Parenting & Relationships

Johnson, Toni Cavanagh

Family Relationships

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