Childhood sexual experiences : narratives of resilience /

Sexual relations between children and adults is a highly controversial issue, and is usually framed as child sexual abuse. However, not all people regard their childhood sexual experiences as abusive or having an impact on their lives. Without detracting from the significant trauma of child abuse, t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hunter, Sally V.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Radcliffe Publishing, [2010]
Subjects:	Child sexual abuse > Psychological aspects. Adult child sexual abuse victims > Psychology. Children and sex.

Table of Contents:

1. Childhood sexual experiences
2. Damaged goods? What we already know about childhood sexual experiences
3. Normal sexual development
4. A silence recently broken
5. The need to remember and the need to forget
6. Protecting and helping others
7. Justice at any cost
8. Remaining defiant
9. Kids and adults that don't tell
10. Drawing together the threads of resilience
11. Gender differences in the development of narratives of resilience and disclosure
12. How to heal relational injuries caused by childhood sexual experiences
Appendix 1. Ten week, step-by-step recovery programme
Appendix 2. Research methodology
Appendix 3. Limitations of research methodology.