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Find guidance to the best resources in advice, books, eBooks and audio for overcoming problems, finding relaxation, leisure and learning. Emotional abuse. The purpose and motivation for the abuser is to diminish the self-respect of the victim. The abuser will rarely recognise what is being done and carries on regardless. The ultimate end can be the threat of, and the carrying out of physical abuse. Physical abuse. Most often the therapist will see a client who was physically abused in the past rather than somebody who is being abused when they seek your help. This is because people who are being harmed are usually too frightened that the abuser will discover that the hurt is being made more ‘public’ and will be made to become even more violent. The client feels trapped in a situation that needs a radical step to find resolution.The cliché says that that abuse is perpetuated by victims. Perhaps in bullying this is more apparent. A boy who is bullied by his father is unable to retaliate with him but he can take out his anger and resentment by bullying another boy, or girl, in the household or classroom. Sexual abuse. Guilt is a huge issue. The power base of an abuser is the creation of a feeling of collusion in the victim. This will include feelings of guilt at complying if it recurs when the child realises that it was something that should never have happened more than once. “You wanted me to do it and if you tell anybody then I will explain that you made me do it.” This is a typical line from an abuser whether father, brother, grandfather uncle or neighbour. Abuse victims should seek help and guidance but the following books shed light on the problem and offer help not only to victims but therapists as well. |
| RESCUING THE 'INNER CHILD' - Therapy for Adults Sexually Abused as Children - by Penny Parks. - Amid the recent welcome campaign to help child victims of sexual abuse, one group of victims has remained largely untapped: the many thousands of adults who have grown up emotionally crippled by the huge burden of guilt and self-disgust that is the legacy of child abuse, and who are now ongoing victims, unable to form mature sexual relationships, unable to function as adults. Their manifold problems are so acute that few of them can regain their emotional health without professional intervention. Many of these people are now being helped by Parks Inner Child Therapy, and in this important book Penny Parks describes her techniques so that thousands more can be reached and guided to maturity. Her aim is to get through to the hurt child at the adult's core. By showing her clients how to re-enact their childhood memories, face their experiences and receive the comfort and reassurance that they so badly needed at the time, she helps to desensitise the pain. she encourages them to vent their suppressed anger, guilt and bitterness, to understand what happened to them and gradually to grow and come to terms with themselves and their sexuality. Throughout the book her clients contribute their own experiences, not only of the past, but of the process of the therapy and restoration. Their memories and feelings make painful, often shocking reading but through them other victims and their partners will be able to work out their own necessarily hurtful path to recovery. The effects of sexual abuse have too often been belittled in the past. This book lays bare the full scale of the lasting trauma that is inflicted and provides practical and sympathetic techniques to heal the wounds. |
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'The Counsellor's Guide to Parks Inner Child Therapy' comprehensively covers all the tools and resources needed to work confidently in the field of child abuse. Covering the processes of establishing rapport, memory retrieval, identifying and removing limiting beliefs, visualisation techniques, keeping clients on track, understanding clients' differing needs, dealing with grief and anger, the importance of assertiveness, identifying and shifting general blocks, intensifying happy memories, reframing guilt, shame and sexual difficulties, determining when a client is ready for change, defusing trauma response and dealing with the counsellor's own feelings. Written in a jargon-free style, easy to use, it is an essential guide for trained counsellors and therapists, which will add insights and tools to their repertoire, as well as being a guide for use in a self-help programme. Giving clear information about the effects and treatment of child abuse, amply illustrated with sample material and guidelines. It is a valuable reference for anyone working with victims of child abuse.
About the Author Penny Parks developed her 'Parks Inner Child Therapy' from her own experience of recovery from childhood abuse. She has sinse refined the PICT model into a thorough way to work with childhood abuse victims or anyone experiencing Post Traumatic Stress. |
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Ugly (Paperback) by Constance Briscoe Product Description Constance's mother systematically abused her daughter, both physically and emotionally, throughout her childhood. Regularly beaten and starved, the girl was so desperate she took herself off to Social Services and tried to get taken into care. When that failed, she swallowed bleach 'because it kills all known germs and my mother always told me I was a germ'. When Constance was thirteen, her mother simply moved out, leaving her daughter to fend for herself: there was no gas, no electricity and no food. But somehow Constance found the courage to survive her terrible start in life. This is her heartrending – and ultimately triumphant – story, now with fourteen extra chapters detailing the trial. |
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Strictly for Therapists by John Smale Very often therapy is like working on a cryptic crossword. You have to look for clues from your clients. This book helps you by giving a lot of the letters for you to make solving those puzzles simpler. The task of a therapist is to expose the cause of each problem and then defuse the negative effects to build a positive future for the clients. They will trust you to help them. This book makes it easier for you to help them. Strictly for Therapists is an exposition of the author’s experiences with a large number of problems presented by many clients over a substantial period of time. It is aimed at giving guidance and level-headed advice to new therapists, established therapists and their clients. The author has dealt with a huge number of abuse victims and understands how to resolve their problems. |
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