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This comprehensive workbook addresses the use of illegal online
sexual images. Focusing specifically on child sexual exploitation
materials (CSEM), it offers a clear and professional manual for use
with men who use CSEM. Working with clients who access illegal
online images is challenging work. CSEM clients have unique
characteristics and treatment needs. Designed around practitioner
and client needs, each chapter provides a guide for clinicians and
a subsequent set of materials for the client.. The workbook covers
a range of topics such as motivation for change, relationships,
thinking patterns, emotions management, sexuality, computer use,
Internet safety and future strategies to ensure both client and
community safety. Addressing these issues as well as community
accountability helps users of CSEM achieve a satisfying life while
avoiding future criminal justice involvement. Through this clearly
written and structured workbook, clients are given the resources to
help manage problematic thoughts and/or illegal sexual behaviour.
Offering evidence-based strategies rooted in the authors' clinical
experiences, the workbook enables the practitioner and client to
work productively together to address the issues that have led to
their involvement with illegal sexual images. This book will be
helpful to a range of practitioners including forensic and clinical
psychologists, as well as those working in correctional settings,
such as probation and prison staff, psychiatrists, social workers,
counsellors and providers of mental health treatment. It is also
designed for anyone who has viewed, or is worried about viewing,
sexual images of children.
Understanding the Sexual Betrayal of Boys and Men: The Trauma of
Sexual Abuse is an indispensable go-to book for understanding male
sexual victimization. It has become increasingly clear since the
1980s that men and boys, like women and girls, are sexually abused
and assaulted in alarming numbers. Yet there have been few
resources available to victims, their loved ones, or those trying
to help them. Richard B. Gartner was in the vanguard of clinicians
treating male sexual victimization and has written extensively
about it, initially in professional papers, then in his landmark
1999 book for clinicians Betrayed as Boys: Psychodynamic Treatment
of Sexually Abused Men, continuing with his 2005 work Beyond
Betrayal: Taking Charge of Your Life after Boyhood Sexual Abuse. He
has been a tireless teacher, clinician, and advocate for male
victims of sexual abuse in the classroom, the lecture hall, and of
course the consulting room as well as in newspaper, television,
radio, and online interviews. Dr. Gartner has gathered together
expert colleagues from the trauma, psychoanalytic, medical, and
survivor treatment fields. Together, they have created a
comprehensive guide to what was once thought to be a rarity but now
is clearly an all-too-common occurrence. Understanding the Sexual
Betrayal of Boys and Men looks at the realities of male sexual
victimization, guiding clinicians and lay people alike to
understand the complexities of the devastation it causes in
victimized boys and men. It considers topics as diverse as: sexual
assault in institutions like the military, sports teams, schools,
universities, and religious organizations; sex trafficking of boys
and adolescents; neurobiology and brain chemistry of male survivors
of sexual abuse; gender and sexual dysfunctions and confusions
resulting from sexual exploitation and trauma; physicians'
treatment of sexually abused men's medical problems; socio-cultural
influences on processing and treating men's and boys' sexual
victimization. Understanding the Sexual Betrayal of Boys and Men is
required reading for anyone working with male victims of sexual
abuse and assault at any level - psychotherapists, rape counselors,
attorneys, journalists, guidance counselors, physicians, clergy,
graduate students, and lawmakers - and helpful to lay people
interested in this often-unrecognized problem.
Focusing on how rape, sexual assault, and harassment relate to
underrepresentation of women in public authority, this book
provides an insightful exploration of the policy context that
impedes women's advancement to positions of power. The election of
Donald Trump precipitated one of the largest outpourings of
political protest on a single day in U.S. history with the 2017
March for Women. The emboldened #MeToo and #TimesUp movements
reacted not only to the historical injustice of sexual offenses
perpetrated upon women, but women's associated underrepresentation
in positions of power and public authority. Women, Power, and Rape
Culture examines the principal events, actors, and paradigms in the
politics of rape, sexual assault, and harassment since Trump's
election. Unlike other studies, it connects these traumatic events
to women's underrepresentation in the public sphere. Chapters
consider the power of presidential speech, judges, and Congress to
create structural barriers to women's representation as well as the
stultifying effects of weak college and university responses to
sexual violence. Disparities in women's representation in positions
of public authority are considered in light of the disproportionate
burden imposed on women by a culture that discounts the prevalence
of rape and harassment and by the policies that inadequately
address them, allowing them to perpetuate. Explains how U.S.
politics and public policy are intimately connected to rape,
assault, and sexual harassment Describes how political rhetoric in
social media can contribute to women's continuing relative silence
and underrepresentation in the public sphere Examines the influence
of judicial decisions shaped by justices who themselves have been
credibly accused of sexual assault Highlights the congressional
context where women are underrepresented in the most powerful
positions, overrepresented in support roles, and systematically
subjected to sexual harassment and misconduct that has been
inadequately acknowledged or addressed Considers the importance of
the campus context in setting the stage for women's
underrepresentation by perpetuating unjust outcomes in pervasive
cases of campus sexual assault and harassment
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"How Long Does It Hurt?" is the revised and updated edition of the
best-selling book written by an incest survivor for future
survivors. This step-by-step guide speaks directly to victims of
sexual abuse3/4to help them come to grips with what is happening to
them and overcome their feelings of isolation, confusion, and
self-doubt.
* The world's only comprehensive resource on women's sexuality and
anorexia nervosa * Presents a model for understanding sexuality as
an experience of complex and interconnected factors, and then
explores how anorexia nervosa interacts with these varied
components of one's sexuality * Melissa Fabello is a prolific
social media force with 22.4K Twitter followers, 16.4K Instagram
followers, 5K newsletter subscribers, and features on Good Morning
America, MSNBC, the BBC, the documentary Fattitude, and in
Upworthy, The Guardian, Bustle, SELF, and more
Against all evidence to the contrary, American men have come to
believe that the world is tilted - economically, socially,
politically - against them. A majority of men across the political
spectrum feel that they face some amount of discrimination because
of their sex. The authors of Gender Threat look at what reasoning
lies behind their belief and how they respond to it. Many feel that
there is a limited set of socially accepted ways for men to express
their gender identity, and when circumstances make it difficult or
impossible for them to do so, they search for another outlet to
compensate. Sometimes these behaviors are socially positive, such
as placing a greater emphasis on fatherhood, but other times they
can be maladaptive, as in the case of increased sexual harassment
at work. These trends have emerged, notably, since the Great
Recession of 2008-09. Drawing on multiple data sources, the authors
find that the specter of threats to their gender identity has
important implications for men's behavior. Importantly, younger men
are more likely to turn to nontraditional compensatory behaviors,
such as increased involvement in cooking, parenting, and community
leadership, suggesting that the conception of masculinity is likely
to change in the decades to come.
Transforming Sexual Narratives offers readers the opportunity to
address complex sexual problems through Narrative Relational Sex
Therapy (NRST), an original approach that Suzanne Iasenza has
developed during twenty-five years of clinical practice. This
method presents a deeper, richer way of thinking about sexual
challenges that has enabled clients to successfully rewrite their
mistaken narratives to reclaim pleasure, intimacy, and satisfaction
in their erotic lives. Drawing on the strengths of three very
different therapeutic traditions - psychoanalytic, couple and
family systems, and sex therapy - it delivers a fresh and dynamic
way of understanding the complex interrelationship between
personal, social, cultural, and familial sexual narratives.
Chapters include conversations with diverse couples and individuals
from all kinds of backgrounds and cultures, who exist in every kind
of body, and in each case show how unconscious and harmful
narratives can be transformed into healthy and pleasurable sex
lives. This essential guide will help therapists to identify their
client's secret sexual stories and enable them to rewrite their
inner narratives and relationship with sexuality for the better.
Sex therapists will be able to integrate a relational perspective
into behavioral treatment, individual and couple therapists will be
able to weave sexuality into general psychotherapy, and
psychoanalysts will be able to use the sexual history to identify
early dynamics that affect adult intimacy.
Cyberflashing has been on the rise since the Covid-19 pandemic.
Yet, despite its prevalence and significant harms, cyberflashing is
not a criminal offence in England and Wales. This crucial book
provides new in-depth analysis, understanding and insight into the
nature and harms of cyberflashing. The authors consider recently
adopted laws in the US, Singapore and Scotland, and set out
proposals to criminalise cyberflashing as a sexual offence in
English law. This unique and timely study presents the first
comprehensive examination of cyberflashing and the need to reform
the criminal law.
Originally written in the 1990s, this book remains a key resource
for women in heterosexual marriages who discover, or are coming to
terms with, their lesbianism or bisexuality. This classic edition
includes a new foreword from Ann Northrop, veteran journalist,
activist, and co-host of Gay USA that reflects on the changes in
language, intersectionality, and understandings of gender since
first publication. Celebrating 25 years since first publication,
this book shares the author’s personal story, as well as the
descriptive experience of others, to provide validation and
empowerment to multitudes of women in their search for their true
identities. The author gives women ways in which to structure and
restructure their lives and their families after they realize their
same-gender sexuality. Chapters consider questions such as how
women make this discovery, reactions from loved ones, and the
outcomes for marriages and families. Updated throughout with
contemporary understandings of sexuality and gender, as well as
updated language, this book includes a wealth of information, fresh
narratives, and stories offering insight into women’s experiences
across the country. This is an essential read for women and their
partners who are discovering their true identity, as well as
therapists, helping professionals, and students of women’s
studies, gender studies, sexuality studies, and LGBTQ studies
programs.
Developmental Trauma offers a comprehensive introduction to the
research findings that help us understand the effects on human
development of early childhood trauma and adaptation to stress. It
explains how DTD differs from PTSD and emerges from a toxic seed
planted at the beginning of an individual's lifespan development.
This important volume examines relational traumas and adverse
childhood experiences, such as exposure to family and community
violence, polyvictimization (multiple repeated childhood traumas),
and disruptions to parent-child bonds, which lay the foundation for
future relationships. The volume considers how DTD affects
self-regulation capacities, identity development, self-esteem, and
faith in oneself and others andincreases the likelihood of
comorbidities including ADHD and autism spectrum disorders.
Individuals with indications of developmental trauma face lifelong
challenges in their ability to develop and maintain trusting
relationships, to build and utilize healthy coping strategies, and
to adjust to school and, eventually, the workplaceUniquely, Daniel
Cruz goes beyond individual levels of analysis that focus almost
exclusively on patients and explores toxic stress embedded in
social systems and institutional policies and procedures that cause
individuals to suffer, experience psychiatric and medical problems,
and that lead to social and economic adversities such as poverty,
homelessness, and involvement in criminal activity. Key topics
explored include institutional betrayal, such as sexual assaults
and workplace bullying, and judicial betrayal when failures from
the legal system do not adequately protect victims of trauma, for
example in cases of domestic violence. Developmental Trauma is for
students of child and adolescent psychology, developmental
psychology, clinical psychology, primary care and health
psychology, education, social work, and urban studies. It is
relevant for graduate students in applied fields such as clinical
and counseling psychology, and those working with diverse children,
and public health and policy.
This book aims to equip mental health professionals to integrate
discussions of sexual identity, health, wellness, and intimacy into
the scope of their client's mental health, ensuring they are
well-prepared to incorporate sexual functioning into core
assessment, interventions, and treatment. We exist in societies
that are scared to discuss sexual health, identity, and
relationships, and the stigma surrounding these topics saturates
our mental health professions. Sex, intimacy, and sexual identity
have historically been relegated as 'specialized' topics when
training new clinicians, which has led to professionals feeling
unable and unskilled to speak about a core part of their client's
psychological, biological, physical, and relational health. Viewing
this as a social justice issue, this book addresses a movement in
the counseling field to incorporate sexual health into therapy as
well as providing new ways of foundational teaching. Chapters begin
exploring the history of sex therapy and the problems that have
previously been addressed as concerns for the sex therapy field
only, before discussing issues surrounding transference and
countertransference. Encouraging self-reflection regarding values,
bias, and attitudes related to topics of sexuality, the book moves
to discussing strategies and integrative approaches to co-occurring
conditions, such as trauma, diagnosis of sexual difficulties,
stigma and societal messages, biopsychosocial treatment, networking
and coordination of care, and spiritual health and healing.
Including journaling exercises, assessment tools, and case studies
of how to weave approaches addressing sexual concerns into
practice, this book will provide graduate courses and continuing
education instructors with the core material to assist the training
and development of future and established professionals.
'Rough sex' has been at the forefront of criminal law in recent
years following several high-profile murders of women killed during
alleged consensual sex 'gone wrong', leading to widespread calls
for reform to prevent the use of what has been termed the 'rough
sex defence.' Situated in a global context in which violence
against women is one of the leading preventable contributors to
death and illness for women aged 18-44 worldwide, this timely
collection examines the rough sex defence and responds to some of
the wider debates around sex and the law. Drawing on a range of
empirical and theoretical standpoints, chapters delve into a range
of topics including the female experience of 'unwanted' slapping,
choking and spitting during sex, the BDSM community, the impacts of
pornography, the normalization and sexualization of violence
against women, early depictions of BDSM involving the eroticization
of non-consensual relations, problematic perceptions of BDSM as
inherently violent, and more. Bows and Herring expertly collate a
wide-reaching mix of perspectives to contribute to a powerful
feminist investigation of this critical issue. It is a compelling
read for scholars interested in the intersection of sex, the law,
and the criminal justice system.
This book examines the modern pandemic of online child sexual
exploitation (OCSE). It explores the prevalence, perpetration,
impact, and victimization of as well as therapy for child sexual
exploitation and its interaction with child sexual abuse. Chapters
discuss OCSE from neuropsychological, epidemiological,
neurological, behavioral, psychological, clinical, neurobiological
and epigenetic perspectives. The volume also addresses the physical
and mental impact of early exposure to pornography. The book serves
as a resource on an issue that is proving exponentially complex as
technology ceaselessly evolves at a faster rate than its
consequences can be understood and addressed. Key areas of coverage
include: Neuropsychological changes and dysfunctional coping
mechanisms resulting from both online and offline child sexual
abuse. The psychological, emotional, and physical impacts (e.g.,
depression, anxiety, PTSD, and self-harm) of child sexual abuse.
Prevention and early intervention strategies, including scalable
technological responses. Developing a public health approach to
preventing and addressing online child abuse and exploitation. Porn
culture and its impact on children, adolescents, and emerging
adults. The neurobiology and epigenetic impact of trauma. This book
is a must-have resource for researchers, clinicians, and graduate
students in child and school psychology, public health, social work
as well as interrelated disciplines, including neuropsychology,
neurobiology, sociology, anthropology, and educational policy and
politics.
* addresses the vital role dance-movement therapy plays in helping
survivors of sexual abuse * the book's chapters were written by
highly experienced dance therapists who specialize in the field of
sexual assault * first book of its kind which offers in-depth and
comprehensive knowledge of characteristics of therapeutic
intervention using dance-movement therapy to treat sexual trauma
This book examines the phenomenon of sexual harassment in the UK
Parliament and efforts to tackle it. The volume's in-depth research
unveils a political culture where sexual transgressions thrive. Its
intersectional feminist perspective furthermore highlights multiple
systems of gendered oppression perpetuating inequality. Britain's
experience is viewed against the global #MeToo movement and
Hollywood's Weinstein sex scandal. The book identifies ways to
redress the status quo and challenges ahead, including a gender
power gap, misuse of non-disclosure agreements to silence victims,
and misogynistic organisational cultures.
Since the first scandals broke in the mid-1980s, the sexual
misconducts of priests have cost the Catholic Church in America
more than $4 billion in compensation settlements and incalculable
damage to its reputation. Although their crimes have attracted far
less attention, predatory nuns have also caused harm. The
depredations of these nuns took place in convent novitiates,
orphanages, boarding schools for Native Americans, and in Catholic
schools, both elementary and secondary. Their victims, male and
female, ranged in age from six-year-olds to young adults. This book
focuses on the criminal behavior of North American nuns and the
responses from church leadership. Mothers superior were outspoken
in their refusal to accept responsibility for the crimes committed
under their watch, and their inclination was to close ranks and
protect the predators, endangering many children and young people
in the process. The complainants, on the other hand, were
considered nuisances to be pushed aside with the least amount of
exposure and expense possible. Straightforward and informative,
this text begins by exploring the nuns' vow of chastity and its
relationship with human sexuality, followed by dozens of case
studies detailing the sexual abuse that nuns committed in various
settings.
The purpose of this edited volume is to examine the disconnect in
the sexual violence prevention field between legislation, research
and practice. The work is focused primarily on United States
policies and initiatives, with key case studies internationally.
Contributions show that current policies are mainly based on repeat
offenders: residence restrictions, registration and notification
statutes, and post-sentence initiatives. While these initiatives
address public fears, they are not evidence-based and do not
necessarily reduce offending. Research shows that post-sentence
policies may destabilize offenders and limit their ability to
reintegrate with society at a critical period, therefore increasing
the chances of recidivism. Furthermore, the majority of sex crimes
(95%) are committed by first time offenders. This innovative book
is divided into two parts juxtaposing what is currently being done
legislatively with what the research evidence suggests would be
best practice.
This is the first book to address the issue of child sexual abuse
within a region of the world constructed as a "paradise" in the
language of global travel and thus makes a significant contribution
to the international literature on the topic. The book follows on
the heels of the most recent research into the topic and draws
extensively from previously unpublished material. While child
sexual abuse occurs in all countries, few books explore the nuanced
conceptual, cultural and social behaviours which underpin it. The
book is distinctive in that it addresses the limitations of
dominant models for child protection that have emerged out of the
richer countries of the West and which are often ineffective in the
majority world and provides practice and policy examples for
transforming child protection in sustainable ways. This edited
volume includes contributions from a wide range of disciplines such
as psychology, psychotherapy, law, social work, sociology, early
childhood education and counselling.
* Edited by the founding editor of the American Journal of
Sexuality Education who is a renowned and respected name in the
field, with chapters written by contributors to the journal. *
Covers a broad range of hot topics, including areas which are often
overlooked or address marginalized audiences, such as porn,
consent, gender identity, and race. * No current text in the field
that looks at sexuality education in such an interdisciplinary way.
* Accessibly written, this book aims to present essays that capture
essential research findings in sexuality education, helping help
professionals stay up-to-date with the latest in the field. * Each
chapter describe the author's key findings, explain the
significance and application of their work, and explore new
developments since the last time their work was developed. * Essays
are aimed at a wide range of occupations and academic disciplines,
such as public health professionals and students of human
sexuality, gender studies, biology, psychology, sociology, as well
as community educators, school nurses and health teachers, and
administrative leaders affiliated with sexuality education programs
at community-based organizations.
When Gail Hovey was a teenager, her local Presbyterian church hired
Georgia, a seminary-trained Christian education director. Brilliant
and charismatic, Georgia used the language of faith to seduce
several of her students, swearing each to secrecy. When she
eventually abandoned the others and focused on Gail, Gail believed
herself uniquely blessed and for the next 15 years modeled her life
on Georgia's-the seminary degree, the minister husband. The
relationship had a profound and lasting influence on the woman Gail
became and left her a legacy of guilt and shame. Shedding light on
the largely invisible issue of sexual abuse of girls by women,
Hovey's brave memoir relates her decades-long journey-from East
Harlem to South Africa to Brooklyn-to break free of an
overwhelmingly powerful and deeply destructive first love.
- brings together researcher and practitioner perspectives. -
explores these issues on a local and global level - provides
critical reflections around how sexual violence is framed and
responded to within the Criminal Justice system.
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