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Disability and child sexual abuse : lessons from survivors' narratives for effective protection, prevention and treatment / Martina Higgins and John Swain.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Higgins, Martina.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Child sexual abuse--Case studies.
- Child sexual abuse.
- Children with disabilities--Case studies.
- Children with disabilities.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (260 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Disability and Child Sexual Abuse examines the ways in which society marginalises, institutionalises and places disabled children in situations of unacceptable risk, and  how - as evidenced in the survivors' narratives - patterns of service delivery can contribute to the problem.
- Contents:
- FRONT COVER; Disability and Child Sexual Abuse: Lessons from Survivors' Narratives for Effective Protection, Preventionand Treatment; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1 Seven Disabled People with Telling Stories; Chapter 2 Narrative and Enabling Stories of ChildSexual Abuse; Chapter 3 An Abusive Society?; Chapter 4 The Double Whammy Effect; Chapter 5 Expressions and Survival of Pain; Chapter 6 Organizational Abuse; Chapter 7 Who Abuses and Why?; Chapter 8 Collective Identities; Chapter 9 Narratives of the Narrative; Conclusion Towards a Non-Abusive Society; REFERENCES; SUBJECT INDEX
- AUTHOR INDEXback cover
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-75001-1
- 9786612750014
- 0-85700-210-4
- OCLC:
- 665581384
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