Main description:

This volume offers a collection of ten case studies from clinical social workers who work in the field of sexual trauma, with the objective of challenging and informing social work practice with survivors and perpetrators of sexual trauma. These steps are meant to help the process of treatment by breaking down the experience of trauma to a set of steps and interventions aimed at resolving traumatic symptoms within a given time frame. Our text seeks to challenge the tendency towards reductionism inherent in the dominant social paradigm by encouraging the development of a phenomenological and interdisciplinary approach to understanding sexual trauma. In doing so, the examples of interventions presented in each case study reflect practice methods that honor the complexity of the human experience of sexual trauma, suffering, and recovery.

Contents:

Introduction: Using Case Studies of Sexual Trauma in the Classroom Jaffe, Floersch, Longhofer, and Conti 1. Thinking Critically About Sexual Trauma in the 21st Century Conti 2. Virtual Trauma: Social Work with Adolescents in the Online Era Busfield 3. Victim or Offender? Stigma and Justice in a Complex Forensic Case Healy 4. Sexual Abuse, the Therapeutic Alliance, and Therapist Self-Disclosure Oreski 5. Redefining Resilience in Children: A Story of Strength and Survival Stolow 6. Social Work and Sex Trafficking: Therapeutic Intervention in the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children Beckett 7. Social Work with an Adolescent Female Sex Offender De La Cruz 8. In-Home Treatment for In-Home SexualTrauma: The Case of Becky Norman 9. The Silent War Within: Miltary Sexual Trauma Lado 10. Social Work, Sex Addiction, and Psychodynamic Treatment Oxman