Responding To A Sexual Abuse Outcry

Author : Susan Witts
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-14
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781524524814

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Responding to a Sexual Abuse Outcry by Susan Witts Pdf

The reaction of the person a child tells is an important factor in their recovery. Many families across America have had their children removed for failing to react appropriately when faced with the information that their child is a victim of sexual abuse. Most have stated that they were in shock, not sure what to do because of the lack of books about this topic. Responding to a Sexual Abuse Outcry was created to help families cope with this experience. There are over forty-two million survivors of sexual abuse in America. Research has shown children of sexual abuse survivors are at a higher risk of becoming victims themselves. TCaware.orgs goal, by publishing this resource, is to break the cycle of abuse and end the epidemic of sexual abuse. Every parent, childcare professional, law enforcement staff, caseworker, teacher, and religious/crisis intervention organization can benefit from the information in this book.

Author : Kathleen Davis
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781475858310

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Outcry Response by Kathleen Davis Pdf

Outcry Response is a book about sexual abuse for educators and administrators of all private and public learning institutions, organizations, and nontraditional settings. How to listen, respond, report, and recognize the often-disturbing signs of sexual abuse are noted for the purpose of building confidence as a mandated reporter. Survivors need responses of compassion, support, empathy, and recognition for their courage since the sexual assault was not their fault. Many survivors, past offenders, educators, and related agency personnel have assisted in describing the aftermath of sexual abuse and how educators can help. Compassion fatigue and exhaustion can lead a listener to inadvertently react with shock, shaming, repulsion, or silence. The solution is self-care with definitions and options provided in Outcry Response Trauma informed research and practices have made mandatory reporting, open communication, and safer campuses much more manageable. This wonderful book provides a variety of examples of trauma informed responses within educationally based scenarios of sexual abuse. The Department of Education websites for all fifty states and community programs enumerated within Outcry Response provide our educators and administrators with numerous resources about sexual abuse to use in their primary role of compassionately educating students of all ages.

Author : Joelle Casteix
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1508681708

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The Compassionate Response by Joelle Casteix Pdf

Author : Sue Richardson,Heather Bacon
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2003-01-15
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1846421756

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Creative Responses to Child Sexual Abuse by Sue Richardson,Heather Bacon Pdf

Despite heightened media attention and the increase in professional knowledge about child abuse, many children are still being failed by the system. Using attachment theory as a foundation, this book addresses in depth the acute practice dilemmas concerning children who, despite the climate of increased awareness, multi-disciplinary cooperation and legislative and procedural change, cannot easily be protected. The contributors give guidelines for working with the children, in particular those who, unable to disclose their experience themselves, are the most difficult to support. Illustrated throughout with case material and informed by the experiences of survivors themselves, the book presents a framework for well managed and resourced, flexible and integrated intervention with children, their families, and the community that will enable professionals and families to work together to break the `cycle of abuse'.

Author : Marie Keenan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199328994

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Child Sexual Abuse and the Catholic Church by Marie Keenan Pdf

A meticulously researched inside look at child sexual abuse by clergy, this exhaustive, hard-hitting analysis weaves together interviews with abusive priests and church historical and administrative details to propose a new way of thinking about clerical sexual offenders. Linking the personal and the institutional, researcher and therapist Marie Keenan locates the problem of child sexual abuse not exclusively in individual pathology, but also within larger systemic factors, such as the very institution of priesthood itself, the Catholic take on sexuality, clerical culture, power relations, governance structures of the Catholic Church, the process of formation for priesthood and religious life, and the complex manner in which these factors coalesce to create serious institutional risks for boundary violations, including child sexual abuse. Keenan draws on the priests' own words not to excuse their horrific crimes, but to offer the first in-depth account of a tragic, multi-faceted phenomenon. What emerges is a troubling portrait of a Church in crisis and a series of recommendations that call for nothing less than a new ecclesiology and a new, more critical theology. Only through radical institutional reform, Keenan argues, can a more representative and accountable Church emerge. Child Sexual Abuse and the Catholic Church is a unique reference for scholars of the Church and therapists who work with both victims and offenders, as well as a forward-thinking blueprint for reform.

Author : Helen Beckett,Jenny Pearce
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351866576

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Understanding and Responding to Child Sexual Exploitation by Helen Beckett,Jenny Pearce Pdf

The issue of child sexual exploitation (CSE) has received intense scrutiny in recent years, following a number of high profile legal cases, serious case reviews and inquiries. This has resulted in increasing expectations that those working in the field will know how to appropriately manage and respond to this form of abuse. Of course, this is no easy task given the widely acknowledged difficulties of identifying and responding to sexual abuse and the particular complexities associated with the gain dynamic within CSE and the predominantly older age of children affected by it. This edited collection draws on the latest research evidence and academic thinking around CSE to consider issues of understanding and response. Written by researchers from ‘The International Centre: Researching child sexual exploitation, violence and trafficking’ at the University of Bedfordshire, Part I considers issues of understanding and conceptualisation. Part II considers the practical implications of some of this thinking, sharing learning from research and evaluation on prevention, identification and response. Understanding and Responding to Child Exploitation presents critical learning for academics and students, and for those working in the fields of policy, practice and commissioning. It is relevant to a wide range of disciplines including social care, youth work, education, criminology, health and social policy.

Author : Dean Knudsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781351534192

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Abused and Battered by Dean Knudsen Pdf

That family violence injures and kills its victims both physically and psychologically was established over two decades ago by early researchers in this field. Abused and Battered heralds the second generation of domestic abuse research: it examines the implications of the legal and social responses to both victims and offenders by systematically addressing the intended and unintended consequences of programs and procedures designed to ameliorate the effects of spousal and child abuse. Contributors to this multidisciplinary volume represent the leading perspectives in public health, law and criminal justice, psychology, and sociology. They provide new and sophisticated insights regarding the etiology of the multiple forms of family abuse and they suggest innovative strategies for mitigating the anguish resulting from physical and emotional violence against adults and children within households. The results of this research will be of interest to students and practitioners in sociology, public health, psychology and family studies, and to clinicians and therapists who treat victims or offenders.

Author : Tom Plach
Publisher : Charles C Thomas Publisher
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780398077952

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Investigating Allegations of Child and Adolescent Sexual Abuse by Tom Plach Pdf

Author : Sara Carrigan Wooten,Roland W. Mitchell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317534488

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The Crisis of Campus Sexual Violence by Sara Carrigan Wooten,Roland W. Mitchell Pdf

Although awareness of campus sexual assault is at a historic high, institutional responses to incidents of sexual violence remain widely varied. The Crisis of Campus Sexual Violence provides higher education scholars, administrators, and practitioners with a necessary and more holistic understanding of the challenges that colleges and universities face in implementing adequate and effective sexual assault prevention and response practices. In this volume, a diverse mix of expert contributors provide a critical, nuanced, and timely examination of some of the factors that inhibit effective prevention and response in higher education. Chapter authors take on one of the most troubling aspects of higher education today, bridging theory and practice to offer programmatic interventions and solutions to help institutions address their own competing interests and institutional culture to improve their practices and policies with regard to sexual violence.

Author : Thomas G. Plante Ph.D.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2004-03-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780313057793

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Sin against the Innocents by Thomas G. Plante Ph.D. Pdf

Experts from a variety of fields join forces to show what fuels a most horrific violation of trust—sexual abuse by priests—and how the Church and church structure play a role in this abuse. This riveting work includes chapters by a former Director of the premiere U.S. facility treating clergy who are sexual offenders, by a Jesuit psychologist who authored the largest study of clergy sexual abusers ever completed, and from a Vatican Correspondent explaining the issues as seen by the Vatican. The text also includes an opening chapter by Michael Rezendes, a Boston Globe investigative reporter and member of the Spotlight Team that won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking the story of sexual abuse by clergy. A statement by the Executive Director of SNAP, the national support group for victims of clergy sexual abuse, is also included. This is the first book that gathers experts from a variety of fields to offer thoughtful, objective perspectives regarding what we know about sexual abuse by clergy and what we can do to solve the problem. Attention is given not only to psychological aspects of both the perpetrators and victims, but also to canon law, clergy misconduct review boards, the sexual/celibate agenda of the Church, the challenges for treatment facilities, and barriers to resolution that exist within the Roman Catholic Church.

Author : Jacob M. Kohlhaas,Mary M. Doyle Roche
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781647124342

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Modern Catholic Family Teaching by Jacob M. Kohlhaas,Mary M. Doyle Roche Pdf

A first of its kind critical engagement with the collected documents of Catholic Family Teaching Catholic Family Teaching (CFT) has developed in parallel with Catholic Social Teaching (CST), yet has not similarly been critically explored as a documentary tradition. Modern Catholic Family Teaching redresses this imbalance through a collection of outstanding commentaries and interpretations of the primary texts and key developments of CFT. Modern Catholic Family Teaching features academic commentary on magisterial texts that constitute primary sources of contemporary Catholic teaching on the family. Each chapter engages a moment in this tradition to invite critical academic engagement with CFT, a topic that increasingly bears weight across diverse areas of theological and ethical consideration. This edited volume offers a clear understanding of the tradition’s growth and development over 130 years, equipping scholars and students of theology to engage the pressing questions of our time.

Author : Carole Jenny
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781416063933

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Child Abuse and Neglect by Carole Jenny Pdf

Carole Jenny's Child Abuse and Neglect: Diagnosis, Treatment and Evidence focuses attention on the clinical evidence of child abuse to help you correctly diagnose and treat such cases in your own practice. In print and online, this unique, well-illustrated clinical reference provides new insights into the presentation and differential diagnosis of physical abuse and looks at shaken baby syndrome, sex offenders, and abuse in religious organizations, information on the biomechanics of injury, and other factors. Identify an abusive injury and treat it effectively by reviewing evidence and critical analyses from leading authorities in the field. Recognize the signs of shaken baby syndrome, sex offenders, and abuse in religious organizations. Understand the biomechanics of injury to determine whether abuse was truly the cause of a child's injury. View illustrations that show first-hand examples of child abuse or neglect. Search the complete contents online and download the illustrations at www.expertconsult.com.

Author : Robin E. Clark,Judith Freeman Clark,Christine A. Adamec
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780816075065

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The Encyclopedia of Child Abuse by Robin E. Clark,Judith Freeman Clark,Christine A. Adamec Pdf

An A to Z reference containing over 400 entries with information on key issues related to child abuse.

Author : Claire M. Renzetti,Sandra Yocum
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781555538118

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Clergy Sexual Abuse by Claire M. Renzetti,Sandra Yocum Pdf

This book brings together experts primarily from the fields of criminology, criminal justice, law, and social work, but also cultural anthropology and psychology, to analyze clergy sexual abuse from the perspective of their individual disciplines. Contributors examine the latest data and analyses on the scope and impact of clergy sexual abuse, frame the problem in terms of sociological and criminological theories of crime and deviance, explore the social and legal issues the problem raises for the personal and communal life of faith communities, and discuss possibilities for reform, reconciliation, and healing. Covering sexual abuse of both minors and adults, chapters not only focus on the Catholic Church, but also examine Christian faith traditions more generally. The editors' introductory chapter identifies points of agreement and divergence among the essays, develops a coherent overview of the problem, and presents viable solutions to it.

Author : James T. O'Reilly,Dr. Margaret S.P. Chalmers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199350124

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The Clergy Sex Abuse Crisis and the Legal Responses by James T. O'Reilly,Dr. Margaret S.P. Chalmers Pdf

The sexual abuse of children and teens by rogue priests in the U.S. Catholic Church is a heinous crime, and those who pray for a religious community as its ministers, priests and rabbis should never tolerate those who prey on that community. The legal disputes of recent years have produced many scandalous headlines and fuelled public discussion about the sexual abuse crisis within the clergy, a crisis that has cost the U.S. Catholic Church over $3 billion. In The Clergy Sex Abuse Crisis and the Legal Responses, two eminent experts, James O'Reilly and Margaret Chalmers, draw on the lessons of recent years to discern the interplay between civil damages law and global church-based canon law. In some countries civil and canon law, although autonomous systems of law, both form part of the church's legal duties. In the United States, freedom of religion issues have complicated how the state adjudicates both cases of abuse and who can be held responsible for clerical oversight. This book examines questions of civil and criminal liability, issues of respondeat superior and oversight, issues with statutes of limitations and dealing with allegations that occurred decades ago, and how the Church's internal judicial processes interact or clash with the civil pursuit of these cases.