Resources

Recommended Reading for Adult Survivors of Sexual Abuse

Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse

  • Courage To Heal: Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse – Bass/Davis
  • Courage To Heal Workbook: For Women and Men – Davis
  • Courage To Heal: ( double cassettes – read by authors ) – Bass/Davis
  • Scream Louder: Through Hell and Healing with an Incest Survivor – Utain
    Scream Louder: Healing an Incest Survivor – Utain/Oliver
  • Reclaiming Our Lives: Hope for Adult Survivors of Incest – Poston/Lison
  • The Woman Inside: From Incest Victim to Survivor – Barnes
  • Strong At The Broken Places: Overcoming the Trauma of Childhood Abuse – Sandford
  • Reach For The Rainbow: Advanced Healing for Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse – Finney
  • Right To Innocence: Healing the Trauma of Child Sexual Abuse – Engel
  • Obsidian Mirror: An Adult Healing from Incest – Wisechild
  • Growing Through Pain: The Incest Survivor’s Companion – Bronson
  • Incest and Sexuality: Guide to Understanding and Healing – Maltz/Holman
  • Healing Victims of Sexual Abuse – Sandford
  • Incest and Human Love: The Betrayal of the Soul in Psychotherapy – Stein
  • Rebirth of Power: Overcoming the Effects of Child Sexual Abuse Through the Experience of Others – Gorcey/Portwood/Sanders
  • Recovering From Incest: Imagination and the Healing Process – Kane
  • Healing the Incest Wound – Courtois
  • I Never Told Anyone: Writings by Women Survivors – Bass/Thornton
  • Voices in the Night: Women Speak About Incest – McMaron/Morgan
  • My Father’s House: A Memoir of Incest and Healing – Fraser
  • Cry Hard and Swim: The Story of an Incest Survivor – Spring
  • I Couldn’t Cry When Daddy Died – Galey
  • When Rabbit Howls: Trudi Chase ( autobiography )
  • I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings: ( autobiography ) – Angelou
  • Rescuing the ‘Inner Child’ – Parks
  • Blasphemous Rumours: Satanic Abuse, Fact, Fantasy? – Boyd
  • Allies in Healing – Davis

Adult Survivors of Physical/Sexual Abuse

  • Outgrowing the Pain: For and About Adults Abused as Children – Gil
  • Why Me? Help for Victims of Child Abused Even if they are Adults Now – Daugherty
  • Alive and Well: A Lesbian Health Guide. Sections on physical and sexual abuse – Hepburn
  • The Black Women’s Health Book: Sections on Physical and Sexual Abuse – White
  • Treatment of Adult Survivors of Child Abuse: Therapists Book – Gil
  • Fresh Start: A Self Help Book For Women – ( NZ Women’s Refuge )
  • Sexual Healing Journey: Guide for Survivors of Sexual Abuse – Maltz
  • Ideas for Therapy With Sexual Abuse ( AUS ) – Durant/White
  • Getting Free: You Can End Abuse – NiCarthy
  • Keeping The Faith: Questions and Answers for Abused Women – Fortune
  • The Charm Syndrome: Why Charming Men Can Make Dangerous Lovers – Horley

Child Sexual Abuse

  • Sexual Assault of Children and Adolescents – Burgess/Groth/Holmstrom/Sgroi
  • Treating Sexually Abused Children and Their Families – James/Nasjleti
  • Father–Daughter Rape – Ward
  • Best Kept Secret: Sexual Abuse of Children – Rush
  • Father Daughter Incest – Herman
  • Child Sexual Abuse – La Fontaine
  • Battle and the Backlash: The Child Abuse War – Hechler
  • Unofficial Secrets: Child Sexual Abuse, the Cleveland Case – Campbell
  • Child Sexual Abuse: Confronting the Problem – Briggs
  • For Your Child’s Sake – Saphira
  • Sexual Abuse of Children: 2nd edition – Saphira
  • By Silence Betrayed: Child Sexual Abuse in America – Crewdson
  • Confronting Child Abuse: Research for Effective Programme Design – Daro
  • A Very Touching Book – Hindman
  • Keep Children Safe – Briggs
  • We Can Say No: A Child’s Guide – Pithers
  • For Your Child’s Sake: Understanding Sexual Abuse – Saphira
  • Katy’s Yukky Problem – Morgan
  • I Told My Secret: A Book for Kids Who Were Abused, 5-9 years – Gil
  • Look Back, Stride Forward: ( NZ ) – Saphira/Mcintyre

Alice Miller

  • Drama of Being a Child
  • Drama of the Gifted Child: Same Book, New Preface
  • Thou Shalt Not Be Aware: Society’s Betrayal of the Child
  • For Your Own Good: Violence and Children
  • Banished Knowledge: Facing Childhood Injuries
  • Untouched Key: Tracing Childhood Trauma in Creativity and Destructiveness
  • Prisoners of Childhood
  • Breaking Down the Wall of Silence

Suzanne Sgroi

  • Handbook of Clinical Interventions in Child Sexual Abuse
  • Vulnerable Populations Vol 1: Evaluation and Treatment of Sexually
  • Abused Children and Adult Survivors
  • Vulnerable Populations Vol 2: Sexual Abuse Treatment for Child-Adult
  • Survivors, Offenders and Persons with Mental Problems

Child Abuse (In General)

  • Recognising Child Abuse: A Guide for the Concerned – Besharov
  • Child Abuse: Practical Guide for Those Who Help – Jorgenson
  • Child Abuse and Neglect: A Guide for Educators and Community Leaders – Erickson/McEvoy/Colucci
  • Too Old To Cry: Abused Teens in Today’s America – Ackerman/Graham

For Sexually Abused Children And Young People

  • Out In The Open: A Guide for Young People who have been Sexually Abused – Bain/Sanders
  • Stepping Out: Incest Information for Girls – Marsh
  • Taking Care of Me: A Healing Work Book ( NZ ) 5-10years ( 1990) – Eder/Smith
  • Too Close For Comfort: Sexually Molested Children in Criminal Court (revised edition) – Smith
  • Katie’s Yukky Problem: 4-10 years ( NZ ) – Morgan
  • Megan’s Secret: 8-16years – Morgan
  • Daniel and his Therapist: 5-14 years ( NZ ) – Morgan
  • What’s Wrong With Bottoms: Child Abused by Uncle 5-10 years( NZ ) – Hessel
  • Something Happened To Me: 3-7 years – Sweet
  • Push Me, Pull Me: 14 year old Abused by Mother’s Boyfriend – Chick
  • Gillyflower: A Young Girl Abused by her Father, 9-14 years – Howard
  • Secrets Not Meant to be Kept: Abuse at Nursery School, 11-16 years – Miklowitz
  • Secrets: ( 1990 ) ( NZ ) – Gorrin
  • He Tapu To Tinana: Your Body is Special ( Maori/English ) ( NZ ) 3-6 years

Client Abuse

  • Sex in the Forbidden Zone: When Men in Power – Therapists, Doctors, Clergy, Teachers and Others – Betray Women’s Trust – Rutter
  • Sex in the Therapy Hour: A Case of Professional Incest – Bates/Brodsky
  • Is Nothing Sacred? When Sex Invades the Pastoral Relationship – Fortune
  • Injustice: A NZ Woman’s Story – Miller

Christian Perspectives on Violence and Abuse

  • Pastoral Care of Battered Women – Clark
  • Sexual Violence: The Unmentionable Sin, an Ethical and Pastoral Perspective – Fortune
  • Keeping The Faith: Questions and Answers for the Abused Woman – Fortune
  • Sexual Abuse Prevention: A Study for Teenagers – Fortune
  • Preventing Child Sexual Abuse: Curriculum for ages 9 – 12 years – Reid/Fortune
  • Escaping the Shadows, Seeking the Light: Christians in Recovery from Child Sexual Abuse – Brewer
  • Surviving The Secret: Healing the Hurts of Sexual Abuse – Verdevelt/Rodriguez
  • Child Sexual Abuse: A Handbook for Clergy and Church Members – Carlson
  • No Place to Hide: Wife Abuse – Olson

Rape/Harassment

  • No Fairy Godmothers, No Magic Wands: Healing Process after Rape – Katz
  • I Never Called it Rape: The MS Report on Recognising, Fighting and Surviving Rape – Warshaw
  • Recovering from Rape – Ledray
  • Quest for Respect: A Healing Guide for Survivors of Rape – Braswell
  • Warning! Dating May be Hazardous to Your Health – McShane
  • Sexual Harassment: Dealing with Sexual Abuse, ( NZ ) – Colbert
  • Free of the Shadows: Recovering from Sexual Violence – Fay/Adams

Education – Young People

  • No Is Not Enough: Helping Teenagers Avoid Assault – Adams/Fay/Loreen/Martin
  • No More Secrets: Protecting your Child from Sexual Assault – Adams/Fay
  • It’s My Body: A Book to Teach Young Children How to Resist Uncomfortable Touch ( 3-6 years) – Freeman
  • Protect Your Child: A Parent’s Guide ( companion to ‘It’s My Body’) – Hart/Rossi
  • Close to Home: Saying No is Not Enough. 4 stories. 4-10 years – Wacher
  • Private Zone: Sexual Assault Prevention Tools for Children – Dayee
  • We Can Say No: A Child’s Guide 3-7 years – Pithers/Greene
  • A Very Touching Book: 4-8 years – Hinderman
  • Keeping Children Safe – Briggs

Recovery

  • Other Side of the Family: Recovery from Abuse, Incest and Neglect – Ratner
  • Healing Hidden Memories: Recovery for Adult Survivors of Childhood Abuse – Williams
  • Abused No More: Recovery for Women in Abuse and/or Codependent, Alcoholic Relationship – Ackerman
  • The Healing Way: Adult Recovery of Child Sexual Abuse – Kunzman

Relationships

  • Really Relating: How to Build an Enduring Relationship – Jansen/Newman
  • Living, Loving, Learning – Buscagilla
  • The Dance of Anger: A Guide to Changing Patterns of Intricate Relationships – Lerner
  • Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples – Hendrix
  • Making Friends: A Guide to Getting Along with People – Matthews
  • The Dance of Intimacy: A Guide to Change in Relationships – Lerner
  • Intimate Partners: Patterns in Love and Marriage

Codependence

  • Codependent No More – Beattie
  • Women Who Love Too Much – Norwood
  • Leaving The Enchanted Forest – Covington
  • Meditations for Women Who Do Too Much – Wilson-Schaef
  • Facing Codependence – Meollody
  • Smart Love: Choosing Healthy Relationships – Hayes

Women’s Issues

  • Women’s Reality – Wilson-Schaef
  • The Courage to be Yourself: Growing Beyond Dependence – Thoelle
  • A New Approach to Women and Therapy – Greenspan
  • Women and Self Esteem – Sandford/Donovan
  • Women and the Blues – James
  • Mothers Who Love Too Much – Grizzle
  • How to be an Assertive ( Not Aggressive ) Woman – Baer
  • Women’s Burnout: How to Prevent It – Freudenberger

Teens & Sexual Pressure / Abuse

  • Sexual Abuse Prevention: A Study for Teens – Fortune
  • Too Old To Cry: Abused Teens – Ackerman/Graham
  • Too Close for Comfort: Sexually Abused Teenagers – Hayward
  • Out in the Open: A Guide for Young People who have been Sexually Abused – Bain/Saunders
  • Dating Violence: Young Women in Danger – Levy

Partners of Survivors

  • Survivors and Partners – Paul Hansen
  • Outgrowing the Pain Together – Eliana Gil
  • Chapters for Partners in “Victims no Longer” – Mike Lew
  • Courage to Heal – Ellen Bass and Laura Davies