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Author:   Sam Warner (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) ,  Jane Ussher (University of Western Sydney, Australia)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.476kg
ISBN:  

9780415360289

ISBN 10:   0415360285
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   19 December 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Part 1. Theory. Setting Scenes: Developing a Feminist, Post-structuralist Perspective. Disordered and Abnormal: Mainstream Misrecognition of Women and Child Sexual Abuse. Dangerous Desires: Child Sexual Abuse, Mental Disorder, and the Mass Media. Changing Concerns in Theory and Activism: Women, Child Sexual Abuse and Radical Politics. Part 2. Research. Contingent Morality and Ethical Research Practices: Critical Uses of Interviewing and Q-methodology. Narratives of Displacement: Women’s Routes into Secure Hospitals. Embodying Disorder: Representing Women and Theorising the Effects of Child Sexual Abuse. Special Care and Child Sexual Abuse: Working with Women in Secure Hospitals. Part 3. Practice. Visible Therapy and Child Sexual Abuse: Critical Approaches to Working with Women and Girls. Between Investigation and Protection: Revising the Role of the Expert Witness in Child Care Proceedings. Reconstructing Blame and Re-enactment: Motherhood, Child Sexual Abuse and Domestic Violence. Beyond Deviance and Damnation: Working with Women and Girls in Secure Care Contexts.

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The number of books on trauma, PTSD, and sexual abuse churned out each year is astounding. One is tempted to believe that there cannot be much left to be said on these thoroughly researched subjects. However, Sam Warner's Understanding the Effects of Childhood Abuse approaches, from an entirely novel angle, the theory, research and practice surrounding childhood sexual abuse. The result is a compelling study that forces an overturning of current assumptions about the way that the public and the psychological and legal experts understand the effects of sexual abuse on children and adults, and how this understanding affects treatment of survivors. ... The result of Warner's feminist-post-structuralist rethinking of the effects of child sexual abuse is nothing short of a revolution in psychology, culminating in a radical political agenda that transforms research, theory and practice as they relate to child sexual abuse. ... Understanding the Effects of Child Sexual Abuse is a refreshing new voice in violence and abuse studies. It is a must-read for practitioners in the field, as it offers a spectrum of practical therapeutic approaches to suit individual patients and situations. Students would benefit from Warner's study, as would any educated reader who is interested in rethinking the way our societies work to suppress some knowledge (such as violence begins at home and generally at the hands of a male you know intimately ) and elevate as self-evident truth other, more convenient understandings ( mental patients are personality-disordered ). - Wendy C. Hamblet, Ph.D., Metapsychology Reviews Online An elegantly written and practically useful text for students of gender and welfare in a variety of disciplines, as well as those on qualifying and post-qualifying programmes in social work, clinical psychology, psychiatry and nursing. Its conclusions and recommendations for ethical practice in the area of sexual abuse show considerable sagacity and are practical, pragmatic and compassionate. - Professor Sue White, Lancaster University

""The number of books on trauma, PTSD, and sexual abuse churned out each year is astounding. One is tempted to believe that there cannot be much left to be said on these thoroughly researched subjects. However, Sam Warner's Understanding the Effects of Childhood Abuse approaches, from an entirely novel angle, the theory, research and practice surrounding childhood sexual abuse. The result is a compelling study that forces an overturning of current assumptions about the way that the public and the psychological and legal ""experts"" understand the effects of sexual abuse on children and adults, and how this understanding affects treatment of survivors. ... The result of Warner's feminist-post-structuralist rethinking of the effects of child sexual abuse is nothing short of a revolution in psychology, culminating in a radical political agenda that transforms research, theory and practice as they relate to child sexual abuse. ... Understanding the Effects of Child Sexual Abuse is a refreshing new voice in violence and abuse studies. It is a must-read for practitioners in the field, as it offers a spectrum of practical therapeutic approaches to suit individual patients and situations. Students would benefit from Warner's study, as would any educated reader who is interested in rethinking the way our societies work to suppress some knowledge (such as ""violence begins at home and generally at the hands of a male you know intimately"") and elevate as ""self-evident truth"" other, more convenient understandings (""mental patients are personality-disordered"")."" - Wendy C. Hamblet, Ph.D., Metapsychology Reviews Online ""An elegantly written and practically useful text for students of gender and welfare in a variety of disciplines, as well as those on qualifying and post-qualifying programmes in social work, clinical psychology, psychiatry and nursing. Its conclusions and recommendations for ethical practice in the area of sexual abuse show considerable sagacity and are practical, pragmatic and compassionate."" - Professor Sue White, Lancaster University ""The number of books on trauma, PTSD, and sexual abuse churned out each year is astounding. One is tempted to believe that there cannot be much left to be said on these thoroughly researched subjects. However, Sam Warner's Understanding the Effects of Childhood Abuse approaches, from an entirely novel angle, the theory, research and practice surrounding childhood sexual abuse. The result is a compelling study that forces an overturning of current assumptions about the way that the public and the psychological and legal ""experts"" understand the effects of sexual abuse on children and adults, and how this understanding affects treatment of survivors. ... The result of Warner's feminist-post-structuralist rethinking of the effects of child sexual abuse is nothing short of a revolution in psychology, culminating in a radical political agenda that transforms research, theory and practice as they relate to child sexual abuse. ... Understanding the Effects of Child Sexual Abuse is a refreshing new voice in violence and abuse studies. It is a must-read for practitioners in the field, as it offers a spectrum of practical therapeutic approaches to suit individual patients and situations. Students would benefit from Warner's study, as would any educated reader who is interested in rethinking the way our societies work to suppress some knowledge (such as ""violence begins at home and generally at the hands of a male you know intimately"") and elevate as ""self-evident truth"" other, more convenient understandings (""mental patients are personality-disordered"")."" - Wendy C. Hamblet, Ph.D., Metaphsychology Reviews Online

The number of books on trauma, PTSD, and sexual abuse churned out each year is astounding. One is tempted to believe that there cannot be much left to be said on these thoroughly researched subjects. However, Sam Warner's Understanding the Effects of Childhood Abuse approaches, from an entirely novel angle, the theory, research and practice surrounding childhood sexual abuse. The result is a compelling study that forces an overturning of current assumptions about the way that the public and the psychological and legal experts understand the effects of sexual abuse on children and adults, and how this understanding affects treatment of survivors. ... The result of Warner's feminist-post-structuralist rethinking of the effects of child sexual abuse is nothing short of a revolution in psychology, culminating in a radical political agenda that transforms research, theory and practice as they relate to child sexual abuse. ... Understanding the Effects of Child Sexual Abuse is a refreshing new voice in violence and abuse studies. It is a must-read for practitioners in the field, as it offers a spectrum of practical therapeutic approaches to suit individual patients and situations. Students would benefit from Warner's study, as would any educated reader who is interested in rethinking the way our societies work to suppress some knowledge (such as violence begins at home and generally at the hands of a male you know intimately ) and elevate as self-evident truth other, more convenient understandings ( mental patients are personality-disordered ). - Wendy C. Hamblet, Ph.D., Metaphsychology Reviews Online An elegantly written and practically useful text for students of gender and welfare in a variety of disciplines, as well as those on qualifying and post-qualifying programmes in social work, clinical psychology, psychiatry and nursing. Its conclusions and recommendations for ethical practice in the area of sexual abuse show considerable sagacity and are practical, pragmatic and compassionate. - Professor Sue White, Lancaster University

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Sam Warner is a consultant clinical psychologist and research fellow, Department of Psychology and Speech Pathology, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK.

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