Violence and abuse in society

What can schools and social care workers do to help children affected by domestic violence?

Children's exposure to violence (CEV) in their home, their community, and our society has finally been recognized as a serious mental health, social, and public health problem.

For many vulnerable children, the idea of talking to an adult about their experiences and feelings can be a daunting prospect.

In this groundbreaking work, Lois Presser investigates the life stories of men who have perpetrated violence.

What is emotional neglect?

A powerful, heartbreaking, and redemptive account of a boy who endured a childhood of poverty and abuse in an American Southwest trailer park named Cloud 9.

Narrative medicine is a fresh discipline of health care that helps patients and health professionals to tell and listen to the complex and unique stories of illness.

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.

An in-depth look at revolutionary new ways to handle sexual assaults.

New Directions in Sex Therapy: Innovations and Alternatives, Third Edition focuses on new and cutting-edge therapy paradigms as alternatives to conventional clinical strategies, challenging practitioners to expand our thinking about how to deal with sexual concerns.

This volume examines how young creators learn, create, and share their visual art online.

Every year, hundreds of thousands of women become victims of sexual violence in conflict zones around the world; in the Democratic Republic of Congo alone, approximately 1,100 rapes are reported each month.

Children bereaved by the death of one parent at the hands of the other, almost always the father, in effect lose both parents, and are often forgotten in the midst of such dramatic situations.

212 pages, 445 images, 11 contributorsSexual abuse of children is an especially delicate matter, and each reported case should be treated with exacting care.

Spanning the years just before (and just after) Nelson Mandela's 1962 arrest, this entirely fresh history of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), or Spear of the Nation, and its revolutionary milieu brings to life the period in which Mandela and his comrades fought South Africa's apartheid regime not only with words and protests, but also with bombs and fire.

In this volume, the authors present an overview of the innovative work taking place in relation to domestic violence and child protection.

An account of the origins of violence, its consequences, its uses, and the relationship between violence and democracy.

This comprehensive analysis on abuse committed in the home provides insights at both the micro and macro levels.

À côté de la violence et de la drogue, les abus sexuels comptent aujourd’hui parmi les situations qui inquiètent le plus les parents concernant leurs enfants.

Inspired by the clinical and ethical contributions of Muriel Dimen, Social Aspects of Sexual Boundary Trouble goes beyond the established consensus that sexual boundary violations (SBV) constitute a serious breach of professional ethics, in order to explore the cultural and historical implications of their chronic persistence.

With the advance of evidence-based practice has come the publication of numerous dense volumes reviewing the theoretical and empirical components of child and adolescent treatment.

We live in a moment of renewed and highly visible action on the issue of sexual violence.

This groundbreaking collection of essays on the sex industry contains original studies on sex work, its risks and benefits, and its political implications.

The helping professions and social scientists traditionally seek concepts and paradigms that can be used in shaping research and services focused on marginalized populations in the United States.

The Handbook of Clinical Sexuality for Mental Health Professionals, 3rd Edition, builds on the authors' authoritative first person voice on sexual matters of the previous editions.

From Every Child Matters and the Munro Review, to changing shifts in thinking from Coalition government; the child protection system has seen dramatic political and policy developments over recent years.

Famous for its revolutionary aspects in musical, political, sexual identity and consumerist ideas, punk rock also has its lesser-known gangster ethos as well, explained here by players in the various punk gangs.

An in-depth treatment in two volumes of the historical and cultural contexts of rape and rape culture, this set discusses both victims and perpetrators internationally during war and peace times and examines the treatment of survivors.

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On April 11, 1981, two neighboring Palestinian Arab towns competed in a soccer match.

This book is grounded in the debates of the 1980s and 1990s that surrounded recollections of childhood sexual abuse, particularly those that emerged in the context of psychotherapy.

What impact on the safety of incarcerated individuals does race, gender, and sexual orientation have?

This book highlights bullying as a complex, multi-caused behaviour which can occur in a variety of contexts, social settings and relationships.

Sexual harassment in the workplace, date rape, and domestic violence dominate the headlines and have recently sparked scholarly debates about the nature of the sexes.

Warum stellen einige politische Gewalttäter ihre Taten öffentlich und spektakulär zur Schau?

A thorough examination of cultic violence discussing religious violence all the way to the post-9/11 era.

Real Life Heroes Life Storybook, 3rd Edition is a resourceful tool for children with traumatic stress.

Why is it that some social movements engaged in contentious politics experience radicalization whereas others do not?

An all-in-one resource for understanding the issue of teen runaways in the USA, including the demographic and socioeconomic dimensions of the problem.

A breakup can feel like the end of the world - but what if it could serve as the start of a better you?

Surveys patterns of crisis, coercion and credibility in US-North Korea relations from the 1960s through to 2010.

The attacks to the World Trade Center and Pentagon on September 11, 2001 brought serious consequences for the daily lives of Americans even to date.

Now a major motion picture by the Academy Award-winning director of The Exorcist.

This radical and thought-provoking book argues that violence does not result from a breakdown of morality, but is morally motivated.

Die Debatte um die Aufarbeitung des sexuellen Missbrauchs an Minderjährigen, die durch die sog.