Main description:

'This book explores with refreshing clarity the complexities and challenges of working with child sexual abuse in the family environment. Describing a victim-centred, family approach based on clear ethical principles and with reference to their own practice experiences, Tolliday, Spangaro and Laing offer a resource which will be of huge practical use for any professional working to address child sexual abuse.' - Simon Hackett, Professor of Child Abuse and Neglect, Durham University.

Contents:

List of tables; Preface; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: The Victim-Centred Family Approach; Chapter 3: Engaging the Harming Parent; Chapter 4: Mothers; Chapter 5: Children who have Experienced Parental Sexual Assault; Chapter 6: Siblings; Chapter 7: Conjoint Work within an Integrated Approach to Therapy: When, How and Why; Chapter 8: Work with the Extended Family; Chapter 9: Building Safety; Chapter 10: Group Work; Chapter 11: Creating Safety for Doing the Work: A Context for Therapy; Index