Understanding the effects of child sexual abuse : feminist revolutions in theory, research, and practice / Sam Warner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Warner, Sam.

Contributor:

Lipman Criminology Library Fund.

Series:

Women and psychology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child sexual abuse.

Adult child sexual abuse victims.

Abused women--Mental health.

Abused women.

Abused women--Institutional care.

Sexually abused children--Mental health.

Sexually abused children.

Psychotherapy.

Feminist theory.

Institutional care.

Physical Description:

xiii, 285 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.

Summary:

Understanding the Effects of Child Sexual Abuse draws on feminism and post-structuralism to critically examine current perceptions of women, girls and child sexual abuse in psychology, psychiatry and the mass media. The book demonstrates the need to question the use of formulaic methods in working with abused women and girls, and calls for an explicit concern with politics, principles and ethics in the related areas of theory, research and practice.

Using research into women who have been sexually abused in childhood, and who are detained in maximum security mental health care, Sam Warner explores and identifies key principles for practice. A social recovery model of intervention is developed, and case study examples are used to illustrate how this approach can be used in a variety of practice contexts including abuse psychotherapy, therapy in child care and therapy with women and girls in secure care units.

This thorough investigation of this emotive issue provides a clear theoretical and practical framework for understanding and coping with child sexual abuse. This book will be of interest to anyone who works with children and adults who have been sexually abused. This includes clinical psychologists, therapists and other professionals that work in mental health, psychotherapy and social services; and legal settings within both community and secure care contexts. It should also be essential reading for students and academics in this area.

Contents:

Part 1 Theory 1

1 Ethical praxis: applying a feminist post-structuralist perspective 3

2 Disordered and abnormal mainstream misrecognition of women and child sexual abuse 15

3 Dangerous desires: child sexual abuse, mental disorder and the mass media 34

4 Using radical politics to understand child sexual abuse: changing concerns in women's theory, activism and therapy 53

Part 2 Research 73

5 Critical research practices and ethical methodologies: researching women and child sexual abuse 75

6 Mad, bad or dangerous? Women's routes into 'special' maximum-security mental hospitals 91

7 Women surviving in secure care: making sense of the effects of childhood sexual abuse 117

8 Special care and childhood sexual abuse: working with women in secure mental hospitals 144

Part 3 Practice 165

9 Visible Therapy with women and girls: reworking the effects of childhood sexual abuse 167

10 Critical practices in child protection: social framework evidence and the expert witness 187

11 Mothers, children and protective practices: making links between domestic violence and child sexual abuse 208

12 Beyond deviance and damnation: working with women and girls in secure care contexts 227.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-275) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lipman Criminology Library Fund.

ISBN:

9780415360272

0415360277

9780415360289

0415360285

OCLC:

144328062