I could not ignore the tiny spark of hope that whispered to me that there might be someone with whom I could be vulnerable and real, and that this time they might just not let me down.
Adult Transgender Care provides an overview of transgender health and offers a comprehensive approach to training mental health professionals in transgender care.
This thought-provoking work raises important questions about sex offender laws, drawing from personal stories, research, and data to prove the policies promote fear, destroy lives, and fail to protect children.
Putting Analysis into Child and Family Assessment bridges theory and practice, and provides clear guidance to improve assessments in child and family social work.
This book provides readers and researchers with a critical examination of mass shootings as told by the media, offering research-based, factual answers to oft-asked questions and investigating common myths about these tragic events.
This book examines the risk factors surrounding children at risk of experiencing and perpetrating violence, and looks at the positive role that children's rights can play in their protection.
Revised and updated in light of the reissued Working Together to Safeguard Children guidance and the Children's Act (2004), this concise guide will help health and allied professionals negotiate the complexities of child protection practice, with the aim of preventing abuse and neglect and protecting children from further harm once it has occurred.
Um Kinder und Jugendliche nachhaltig gegen (sexualisierte) Gewalt in Institutionen zu schützen, müssen Schwächen und Fehler der Vergangenheit analysiert und eine intensive Präventions- und Aufklärungsarbeit mit systematisierten Handlungsempfehlungen durchgeführt werden.
This edited volume advances the conceptual framework of the 'everyday urban' to unpack the ways in which processes of modernity in India shape young subjects and, in so doing, centers the analytical categories of childhood and youth.
This book explores the nature of power in persons, groups, and nations by asking a question that we can understand in contemporary terms: what would Bill Gates do if he had Hitler's absolute power?
Taking a multi-disciplinary perspective, and one grounded in human rights, Unaccompanied young migrants explores in-depth the journeys migrant youths take through the UK legal and care systems.
Burkert, Girard, and Smith hold important and contradictory theories about the nature and origin of ritual sacrifice, and the role violence plays in religion and culture.
The scale of the Rotherham child protection scandal has led professionals responsible for safeguarding children in other regions to recognise the extent of child abuse in their area and consider how to respond efficiently.
In response to the civil war in Darfur, the African Mission in Sudan (AMIS) force was established in May 2004, and by June its first contingents were on the ground.
Die Evaluationen in der Jugendhilfe - und damit auch wirkungsorientierte Evaluationen - zeichnen sich im Gegensatz zur Laborforschung dadurch aus, dass wissenschaftlich fundierte Untersuchungsinstrumente nicht in einem künstlichen Setting, sondern in der Praxis zum Einsatz kommen.
With statistics showing that 1 in 5 women have experienced some form of sexual abuse, it is likely that all birth professionals will support a survivor of such abuse at some point during their career.
Confronting taboos and misunderstandings about sexuality and aging, Couple Sexuality After 60: Intimate, Pleasurable, and Satisfying motivates couples to embrace sex and sexuality in their 60s, 70s, and 80s.
Sexual assault is a worldwide public health concern, as it occurs to people of all genders at alarming rates and results in serious impacts to physical and mental health.
This groundbreaking second edition of Human Sexuality continues its broad and interdisciplinary goal of providing readers with a comprehensive overview on sexuality as a core part of our individual identities and social lives.
School Safety: True Stories and Solutions from School Leaders is a compilation of best practices on school safety, shared by current and former school administrators and school leaders.
Die schicke Gesellschaft der 1950er und 1960er Jahre mit ihren rauschenden Bällen und ausgelassenen Partys, den Stars und feinen Zirkeln, bildet die Kulisse für diese dramatische Familienchronik, in der Sissy Böhm, älteste Tochter von Karlheinz Böhm, ihre persönliche Geschichte und die ihrer Vorfahren beschreibt.
In the Americas, debates around issues of citizen's public safety--from debates that erupt after highly publicized events, such as the shootings of Jordan Davis and Trayvon Martin, to those that recurrently dominate the airwaves in Latin America--are dominated by members of the middle and upper-middle classes.
This authoritative one-stop resource helps readers understand the problem of sexual assault in the United States, including societal factors, notorious cases, laws and practices, victim advocacy and reform efforts, and keys to recovery.
Created to counteract the spiritual imbalance that MI can cause, the Moral Injury Reconciliation (MIR) methodology is a 9-week, 3-phased spiritual care treatment, for Veteran and family transformation.
Desde 10 campos o enfoques diversos, en este libro se intenta descubrir y denunciar las distintas formas de violencia de género, sus raíces históricas, culturales y religiosas.
Disability and Child Sexual Abuse examines the ways in which society marginalises, institutionalises and places disabled children in situations of unacceptable risk, and how - as evidenced in the survivors' narratives - patterns of service delivery can contribute to the problem.