We Are Still Here: What Counsellors and Therapists Can Learn from the Lived Experiences of Child Sexual Abuse Survivors
Jul 2024 · Jessica Kingsley Publishers
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Child sexual abuse leaves a legacy that continues to affect survivors in adulthood. This practical book is full of personal stories that provide helping professionals with the knowledge they need to truly meet survivors' needs.
Survivors share a wide range of personal experiences, including abuse within families, institutions and faith communities, abuse by females, and organised child sexual exploitation. Expert psychologist Christiane Sanderson explains what lessons can be drawn from these stories, and how to support survivors of such experiences in professional settings. Examining the common consequences experienced by survivors in adulthood - such as shame, vulnerability to substance addiction, attachment issues, dissociation, and distortion of reality - Sanderson advises how to listen and respond sensitively, and create an optimal environment for post-traumatic healing.
Survivors share a wide range of personal experiences, including abuse within families, institutions and faith communities, abuse by females, and organised child sexual exploitation. Expert psychologist Christiane Sanderson explains what lessons can be drawn from these stories, and how to support survivors of such experiences in professional settings. Examining the common consequences experienced by survivors in adulthood - such as shame, vulnerability to substance addiction, attachment issues, dissociation, and distortion of reality - Sanderson advises how to listen and respond sensitively, and create an optimal environment for post-traumatic healing.
About the author
Christiane Sanderson is a retired senior lecturer in Psychology at the University of Roehampton. With over 35 years' experience working in the field of child sexual abuse, sexual violence, complex trauma, and domestic abuse. Christiane has delivered training internationally and to both statutory and voluntary organisations, as well as therapeutic training institutes. She has authored multiple books on trauma and surviving sexual abuse. She also is a trustee at the charity One in Four.
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