What constitutes real recovery for adult victims of abuse? Current support offered to adults is often poorly planned and informed; this book sheds light on the true impact of abuse and how it can be healed.Good Practice in Promoting Recovery and Healing for Adults Who Have Been Abused explores the idea of 'recovery' being something physical in the short-term and 'healing' as an emotional process for long-term work. The book features chapters written by practitioners and researchers from various backgrounds and gives an insight into how to be creative in helping both male and female victims through recovery and healing processes. The prologue introduces the views of victims themselves before the opening chapter considers how recovery and healing should fit into the adult safeguarding process. The chapters then describe creative therapeutic methods which can be employed to help victims recover and to heal in different settings, whilst highlighting the long-term effects of abuse and the subsequent issues to be addressed. The issues covered range from child sexual abuse, domestic abuse and sex trafficking to the abuse of men and holocaust victims.With pedagogical features throughout, the book is essential reading for social workers, nurses, housing officers, support workers, counsellors, therapists, and for anyone working with adults who have experienced abuse in childhood or adulthood.
Introduction: Listening to What Victims Have To Say about Recovery and Healing. Jacki Pritchard, Jacki Pritchard Ltd, UK.; 1. How Recovery and Healing Should Fit into the Adult Safeguarding Process. Jacki Pritchard.; 2. Recovery and Healing From Complex Trauma. Christiane Sanderson, Independent consultant, UK.; 3. The Work of a Sexual Assault Recovery Centre. Bernie Ryan, St. Mary's Sexual Assault Recovery Centre, UK.; 4. Male Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse: Experience of Mental Health Services. Sarah Nelson, Ruth Lewis and Sandra S. Cabrita Gulyurtlu, University of Edinburgh, UK.; 5. Recovery Through Psychodynamic Therapy: Working with Men who Have Experienced Sexual Violation. Georgina Hoare, SurvivorsUK.; 6. Surviving Sex Trafficking: Recovery and Healing. Krista Hoffman, Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape, USA.; 7. 'To Be Who We Really Are': Recovery and Healing After Domestic Abuse. Dr Hilary Abrahams, University of Bristol, UK.; 8. Helping Recovery and Healing: A Supported Housing Project Approach. Jacqui Smith, Young Women's Housing Project, UK.; 9. Louder Than Words: Art Therapy with Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities Who Have Been Abused. Amanda Gee, Vita Community Living Services, Canada.; 10. Recovery and Healing in Survivors of the Holocaust. Judith Hassan, Jewish Care, UK.; 11. Group Work and the Healing Process. Jacki Pritchard. Epilogue: The Maslow Experiment. Jacki Pritchard and Hilary Abrahams. Index.
''This refreshing and wide ranging book is challenging of - and informative for - professionals working in the field of abuse, including domestic, sexual, physical and emotional abuse and the subsequent trauma those can lead to. Rarely do we hear so clearly the voice and experiences of the survivors themselves, both male and female, alongside the voices of the workers in the field. The book addresses the practical and therapeutic needs of survivors, highlighting the creative resources survivors find useful (and the scarcity of them) as well as psychological understandings of the complexity professionals can expect to be dealing with across a range of different settings. Once again Jacki Pritchard has managed to bring together a knowledgeable and experienced group of authors, all with something to add to our view of 'recovery' and 'healing' from abuse - concepts that are skilfully woven throughout. This book should be on a list of required reading for all health and social care professionals.'' - Kim Etherington, Emeritus Professor, Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol, UK and author of several books including Narrative Approaches to Working with Adult Male Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse: The Clients', the Counsellor's and the Researcher's Story
