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Gender-based Violence and Public Health: International perspectives on budgets and policies

by Keerty Nakray

Gender-based violence is a multi-faceted public health problem with numerous consequences for an individual's physical and mental health and wellbeing. This collection develops a comprehensive public health...

Exploited

by Emma Jackson

'If you read the papers, you'd think that the only girls to get hooked are from dysfunctional families. But what happened to me could happen to anyone. Your child, your sister, your friend - even yourself if...

Effects of and Interventions for Childhood Trauma from Infancy Through Adolescence: Pain Unspeakable

by Sandra Hutchison

Successfully reach out and help children through the worst times of their young lives!

Effects of and Interventions for Childhood Trauma from Infancy Through Adolescence: Pain Unspeakable explores an array...

Responding to Physical and Sexual Abuse in Women with Alcohol and Other Drug and Mental Disorders: Program Building

by Bonita Veysey & Colleen Clark

Learn from the experiences of these program sites to develop better services for women with co-occurring disorders and histories of violence

This book explores the efforts of the Women, Co-Occurring Disorders...

Intimate Violence: Contemporary Treatment Innovations

by Donald Dutton & Daniel Jay Sonkin

Take an updated approach to treating partner violence!

Intimate Violence: Contemporary Treatment Innovations examines new and innovative approaches to treating domestic violence, de-emphasizing the unilateral,...

Domestic Abuse and the Jewish Community: Perspectives from the First International Conference

by Diane Gardsbane

Learn ways to address domestic and sexual abuse in your community

Breaking the cycle of domestic violence and abuse poses unique problems for the Jewish community, owing to the internal divisions of politics,...

Behind the Eight Ball: Sex for Crack Cocaine Exchange and Poor Black Women

by Tanya Telfair Sharpe

Inner-city black women open their hearts to share the pain of crack addiction and its consequences

Behind the Eight Ball: Sex for Crack Cocaine Exchange and Poor Black Women documents an American tragedy that...

For Love of Country: Confronting Rape and Sexual Harassment in the U.S. Military

by Terri Spahr Nelson

A compelling exploration of sexual victimization in the United States military!This incisive book offers a unique perspective on rape and sexual harassment in the United States military. Drawn from the experiences...

Men's Violence Against Women: Theory, Research, and Activism

by Christopher Kilmartin & Julie Allison

This text offers a balance of clinical and social psychological theory and research, as well as prevention and intervention techniques with the purpose of understanding and ultimately ending gender-based violence....

Beginning to Heal

by Ellen Bass & Laura Davis

There's nothing as wonderful as starting to heal, waking up in the morning and knowing that nobody can hurt you if you don't let them.

Beginning to Heal offers hope and guidance for all survivors starting the...

The Bully Action Guide

by Edward F. Dragan, EdD

Bullying used to be thought of as an unpleasant rite of passage, but now psychologists are realizing that it inflicts real harm. As many as 40 percent of children report that they’ve experienced episodes of...

Crazy Love

by Leslie Morgan Steiner

At 22, Leslie Morgan Steiner seemed to have it all: a Harvard diploma, a glamorous job at Seventeen magazine, a downtown New York City apartment. Plus a handsome, funny, street-smart boyfriend who adored her....

Sexual Abuse and the Culture of Catholicism: How Priests and Nuns Become Perpetrators

by Myra L Hidalgo

An inside look at the reasons Catholic priests and nuns commit sexual abuse

Sexual Abuse and the Culture of Catholicism digs beneath the public scandals to explore the underlying causes of sexual abuse by priests...

Kids Who Commit Adult Crimes: Serious Criminality by Juvenile Offenders

by R. Barri Flowers

Examine the factors that contribute to increasingly violent youth crimes in the United States!

Kids Who Commit Adult Crimes: Serious Criminality by Juvenile Offenders is an examination of today's serious, chronic,...

An Awesome Journey

by Deb J. Damone

The author gives her audience a front row seat as the stage to her life unfolds before your eyes. In sharing the truth in her own words regarding what it is like to live with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID),...

Prostitution, Trafficking, and Traumatic Stress

by PhD, Melissa , PhD Farley

Prostitution, Trafficking, and Traumatic Stress offers the reader an analysis of prostitution and trafficking as organized interpersonal violence. Even in academia, law, and public health, prostitution is often...

Handbook of Anger Management: Individual, Couple, Family, and Group Approaches

by NoContributor

Get the most from your ability to work with clients suffering the effects of chronic anger

The Handbook of Anger Management provides therapists and counselors with a comprehensive review of anger and aggression...

House of Horrors

by Nigel Cawthorne

In April 2008, in the quiet Austrian town of Amstetten, a truly horrifying vision of hell was discovered by police in the cellar of a seemingly normal suburban home. Undoubtedly the worst case in Austrian criminal...

Holographic Reprocessing: A Cognitive-Experiential Psychotherapy for the Treatment of Trauma

by Lori S. Katz

Holographic Reprocessing (HR) is a cognitive-experiential psychotherapy based on Seymour Epstein's theory of personality, cognitive experiential self-theory (CEST). According to CEST, people have a natural adaptive...

Sharp

by David Fitzpatrick

"Endorphins sped through me. I spun around, growing dizzy, frantic, and silly. I wasn't drunk, but I felt a nice stoned feeling, sans paranoia, and I thought, 'I believe I've found my new pharmaceutical deep...