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

As with everything under resources, take the time to see what is the best fit for you and your family.  This information has not been vetted by KKC Cares, Inc.  This information has been shared by parents as a tool they have come across and/or found helpful.  Please share anything that you have found so we can add it to our page as a resource for other parents.  Thank you!                   

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