Recommended Reading for Child Sexual Abuse Survivors and their Family & Friends
In our library, you will find a curated assortment of books recommended by our child sexual abuse survivors community. Books include various paths to healing from child sexual abuse, plus resources for therapists, spouses, family and friends, and a collection of memoirs from our survivor community authors.
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Good Grief: 50th Anniversary Edition
For fifty years Good Grief has helped millions of readers, including NFL players and a former first lady, find comfort and rediscover hope after loss.…
Survivor Personality: Why Some People Are Stronger, Smarter, and More Skillful atHandling Life's Diffi culties…and How You Can Be, Too
The classic guide to what makes people survivors, now in a revised and updated new edition. Who survives? Who thrives? As a psychologist who spent…
Getting Past Your Past: Take Control of Your Life With Self-Help Techniques from EMDR Therapy
Whether we've experienced small setbacks or major traumas, we are all influenced by memories and experiences we may not remember or don't fully understand. Getting…
The Survivors Club: The Secrets and Science that Could Save Your Life
Which is the safest seat on an airplane? Where is the best place to have a heart attack? Why does religious observance add years to…
The Right to Innocence: Healing the Trauma of Childhood Sexual Abuse: A Therapeutic 7-Step Self-Help Program for Men and Women, Including How to Choose a Therapist and Find a Support Group
"A practical and powerful must-read book for all who have suffered childhood sexual abuse, their family members and loved ones, and for all mental health…
Surviving Childhood Sexual Abuse: Practical Self-help For Adults Who Were Sexually Abused As Children
Understanding the past-and breaking free from it-is the key to surviving childhood sexual abuse. This book can help ease the journey, with discussions of the…
Door of Hope: Recognizing and Resolving the Pains of Your Past
Victims of abuse-any abuse-need to know how other people have made it through the recovery process. As a victim of incest herself, Jan Frank understands…
Overcoming Childhood Sexual Trauma: A Guide to Breaking Through the Wall of Fear for Practitioners and Survivors
Go beyond the pain and fear of sexual abuse to heal the trauma Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) can be a physically and emotionally painful soul-shattering…
Abused Boys: The Neglected Victims of Sexual Abuse
A long overdue book by a psychologist who has extensive clinical experience treating male victims of child sexual abuse, it explodes the myth that sexual…
Wounded Boys Heroic Men: A Man's Guide to Recovering from Child Abuse
Offers adult male victims of child abuse a procedure for facilitating the recovery process, and suggests ways to break the cycle of violence
Leaping Upon the Mountains: Men Proclaiming Victory over Sexual Child Abuse
Presenting the first real investigation of what male sexual assault survivors themselves identify as most important during various stages of recovery, Leaping upon the Mountains…