Good Practice in Promoting Recovery and Healing for Abused Adults (Good Practice in Health, Social Care and Criminal Justice) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1849053723 ISBN 13: 9781849053723

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Pub, 2013

Synopsis

Therapeutic support offered to victims of abuse whether experienced in childhood or in adulthood is often not considered or planned properly; in many instances a victim's definition of recovery and healing may differ vastly from how a professional views those processes. '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. This series explores key practice areas for professionals working in social care, health care and the probation service. Contributors are drawn from a wide variety of settings, both in the voluntary and statutory sectors.

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Review

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

From the Author

Jacki Pritchard practises as an independent social worker and is registered with the Health and Care Professions Council. She is Director of the company Jacki Pritchard Ltd which provides training, consultancy and research in social care and also produces training materials. Jacki specialises in working directly with victims of abuse and was the founder of the organisation Beyond Existing, Support Groups for Adults Who Have Been Abused. Jacki has written widely on the subject of adult protection and has been Series Editor of the Good Practice in Health, Social Care and Criminal Justice series, published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers, since 1993.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Pub
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1849053723
• ISBN 13: 9781849053723
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 248
• Editor: Jacki Pritchard