Women Who Were Sexually Abused as Children (eBook)

Mothering, Resilience, and Protecting the Next Generation

Teresa Gil (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
218 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-5381-0178-0 (ISBN)

Infos

This book highlights the resilient capacities of mothers who have experienced childhood sexual abuse and gives them the opportunity to break their silence, share their struggles, and give voice to their experiences, pains, and triumphs. By offering their stories, Teresa Gil sheds light on the challenges of mothering after childhood sexual abuse.

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Stories of mothers who survived sexual abuse as children reveal the struggles, challenges, and triumphs of this special group of women. Unraveling the veil of silence and capturing the experiences of mothers who were sexually abused as children, this book offers a first step in both supporting mothers and disrupting the cycle of intergenerational abuse that keeps these mothers isolated and alone in their mothering challenges and successes. Each story reveals the concerns, the needs, the difficulties, and the fears these mothers confront as they parent their children while struggling with their own past experiences. By examining the therapeutic needs and concerns of mothers who have survived child sexual abuse, Teresa Gil offers special insight into understanding and supporting these remarkable women. At issue is understanding what helps women who were sexually abused as children to survive and to parent effectively. Written for adult mothers who were victims of childhood sexual abuse, as well as for helping professionals, this book reveals the touching details of the pain and triumphs of mothering as a survivor and examines the protective factors that support resiliency and assist survivor/mothers to overcome challenges and to provide safe environments for the next generation.

Autor

Teresa Gil, PhD, has been a psychotherapist, professor, and trainer for more than 25 years. She has a private practice working with women, children, and families dealing with recovery from child abuse and trauma. She is a full professor and teaches General Psychology, Abnormal Psychology, Child Psychology, and Psychology of Women. She has also taught courses in both Social Work and Sociology. Teresa works as a trainer and consultant in human service settings and has developed and facilitated dozens of workshops and clinical trainings on pertinent clinical and therapeutic issues. Teresa has facilitated large group workshops on communication, parenting skills, and family relations.

Inhalt

Chapter One: Defining Child Sexual Abuse and the Factors that Impact Resiliency and RecoveryChapter Two: The Long-Term Impact of Child Sexual AbuseChapter Three: Transcending Adversity and Overcoming Abuse: Risk Factors, Protective Factors, and ResiliencyChapter Four: Mothering: Challenges and RisksChapter Five: Mothering: Sustaining ResiliencyChapter Six: The Therapeutic Relationship and Its Importance to Resiliency and HealingChapter Seven: A Legacy of Trauma: Mechanisms for Intergenerational AbuseChapter Eight: Implications for Treatment and Policy: Strengthening Resiliency

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.8.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Familie / Erziehung
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Lebenshilfe / Lebensführung
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Persönlichkeitsstörungen
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Notfallmedizin
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: avoiding abuse • childhood sexual abuse • child sexual abuse • courage after abuse • getting help after sexual abuse • healing after trauma • healing from sexual abuse • how to parent when you've been abused • life after sexual abuse • long-term consequences • marriage after sexual abuse • mothering after sexual abuse • mothering after trauma • parenting • parenting after sexual abuse • parenting after trauma • protecting children from sexual abuse • PTSD • Recovery • resiliency • Sexual Abuse • sexual abuse as a child • stories of sexual abuse • surviving sexual abuse • survivng sexual abuse • victim • women and sexual abuse
• ISBN-10: 1-5381-0178-5 / 1538101785
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5381-0178-0 / 9781538101780