Counselling for Sexual Abuse: A Therapist's Guide to Working with Adults, Children, and Families

A practical guide to sexual abuse counseling, this book is written by counselors for counselors. It succeeds in providing a wide variety of therapeutic tools derived from the work of numerous theorists and combined with a consistent theoretical framework. The authors employ systems theory and a feminist perspective. The focus is on the practical issues of what to do, how, why, and when. The approach is comprehensive with separate chapters dealing with different client needs. Issues of culture and gender are also addressed.