Books
BOOKS FOR PARENTS OR GUARDIANS:
Straying Towards Truth: A Therapist's Personal Story and Professional Guide to Healing After Sexual Abuse by Karen E. Fennell, MSW, LISW-CP
Invisible Girls: Speaking the Truth about Sexual Abuse by Patti Feuereisen
Inside a Cutter's Mind: Understanding and Helping Those Who Self-Injure by Jerusha Clark
Rules of Estrangement: Why Adult Children Cut Ties and How to Heal the Conflict by Joshua Coleman, PhD
Helping Your Child Recover from Sexual Abuse by Caren Adams and Jennifer J Fay
The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman
Keep Your Love On by Danny Silk
Healing from the Trauma of Childhood Sexual Abuse: The Journey for Women by Karen A. Duncan
What Do I Do Now? A Survival Guide for Mothers of Sexually Abused Children (MOSAC) by Mel Langston PhD and Leona Puma
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk M.D. YouTube- The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
When Your Child Has Been Molested: A Parents' Guide to Healing and Recovery Revised Edition by Kathryn Brohl and Joyce Care Potter
When Parents Hurt: Compassionate Strategies When You and Your Grown Child Don't Get Along by Joshua Coleman PhD.
You Can Help: A Guide for Family & Friends of Survivors of Sexual Abuse and Assault by Rebecca Street
Healing from Hidden Abuse: A Journey Through the Stages of Recovery from Psychological Abuse by Shannon Thomas
Perfect Daughters: Adult Daughters of Alcoholics by Robert J. Ackerman
What Happened to You: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience and Healing by Bruce D. Perry and Oprah Winfrey
How You Do Anything Is How You Do Everything? A Workbook by Cheri Huber
8 Ways to Create Their Fate: Protecting the Sexual Innocence of Children In Youth-Serving Organizations, by Diane Cranley
When Survivors Give Birth:Understanding and Healing The Effects of Early Sexual Abuse on Childbearing Women by Penny Simkin
No Future Without Forgiveness by Desmond Tutu
Prey: The Secret That Almost Killed Me by Brad Watson
Taking Action: Support for Families of Adolescents with Illegal Sexual Behavior by Barbara L. Bonner
Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement by Tarana Burke
Splitting: Protecting Yourself While Divorcing Someone with Borderline or Narcissistic Personality Disorder by Bill Eddy, LCSW, JD and Randi Kreger
Children's Story: Sexually Molested Children in Criminal Court by Judge Sandra B. Smith, JD
The Hormone Cure by Dr. Sara Gottfried
You Know Me: A survivor of domestic psychological and emotional abuse shares her story of discovery, survival and triumph by Kelly Orr
Trauma and Recovery by Dr. Judith Herman
Complex PTSD by Pete Walker
Come Back: A Mother and Daughter's Journey Through Hell and Back by Claire Fontaine and Mia Fontaine
Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World that Wasn't Designed for you by Janara Nerenberg
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