Abuse

It Happened to Me: A Teen’s Guide to Overcoming Sexual Abuse (workbook)

Whether sexual abuse happens in early childhood or just before leaving home, most trauma survivors find that the teenage and early adult years are crucial for their recovery. With the right kind of support, it’s then that they have the motivation and capacity for insight that will let them begin the process of healing.This workbook is written for …

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Life, Reinvented: A Guide to Healing from Sexual Trauma for Survivors and Loved Ones

Life, Reinvented brings both inspiration and practical tools to survivors of sexual assault or childhood sexual abuse and their friends, family members, and spouses. Combining recent research, years of clinical experience, and first-hand accounts of healing, Erin Carpenter offers a unique viewpoint on recovery from trauma. Life, Reinvented is a truly complete guide to healing. Beginning with …

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Boundaries: Loving Again After a Pathological Relationship

Boundaries: Loving Again After a Pathological Relationship, from the author of the book and website Psychopaths and Love Were you involved with a psychopath or other manipulator or abuser? Are you thinking about taking another chance at love? This is the book for you. It gets to the heart of the matter of boundaries for survivors …

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It’s Not You, It’s What Happened to You: Complex Trauma and Treatment

With It’s Not You, It’s What Happened to You: Complex Trauma and Treatment, Dr. Christine Courtois has simplified her extensive and, until now, quite scholarly work geared toward understanding and developing the concept of “complex trauma,” and the assessment and treatment thereof. A universally acknowledged leader in this emerging psychotherapeutic field, Dr. Courtois provides here an abbreviated and …

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How to Spot a Dangerous Man Before You Get Involved

This savvy, straightforward book pairs real women’s stories with research and the expertise of a domestic violence counselor to help women of all ages identify Dangerous Men — before they become too involved.Brown describes eight types of Dangerous Men, their specific traits and characteristics. In separate chapters, she explores victim’s stories that tell how they came in contact …

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Resurrection After Rape: A guide to transforming from victim to survivor

Updated 2013 Edition! Expanded with new content! From the resurrectionafterrape website: Looking for a book about rape that’s not depressing or boring, but doesn’t avoid deeper emotions and questions either? Resurrection After Rape is a deeply-moving, powerful guide for women recovering from rape. What sets this apart from other books on rape is that this one isn’t written …

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