THE PURPOSE: To answer the questions and address the concerns of parents whose children have been sexually abused, including information about obtaining appropriate therapy and dealing with parents' own emotional concerns. Internet resources are also provided. SPANISH EDITION ALSO INCLUDED: This book contains a full Spanish-language version as well as the English version. Specialized Internet links to Spanish-language websites are included in the Spanish test. Links for the Website of "Healing the Harm Done" Links to Resources Cited in the Book American Psychological Association www.apa.org National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology www.nationalregister.org National Organization for Victim Assistance www.try-nova.org Alcoholics Anonymous, Al-Anon, and Ala-Teen www.aa.org Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers www.atsa.com MegaSkills (parenting and school achievement information) www.MegaSkillshsi.org National Organization on Male Sexual Victimization www.malesurvivor.org Effective Learning Systems (source for "Self Image for Children" relaxation audiotape) www.efflearn.com Enlaces en español American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (varios temas de interés) www.aacap.org/publications/apntsFam/index.htm (abuso sexual) www.aacap.org/publications/apntsFam/sexabuse.htm Arte Sano Recursos para sobrevivientes de la violación y la violencia sexual que buscan ayuda en español) www.arte-sana.com/recursos.htm Recursos para toda la familia www.familymanagement.com/facts/spanish/apuntes28.html Diez razones para no emplear castigo corporal www.familymanagement.com/espanol/razones.htm I Información del Dpto. de Educación de EE.UU. www.ed.gov/espanol/parents/academic/tareaescolar/tareaescolar.doc www.ed.gov/espanol/parents/academic/preescolar/part_pg9.html El sitio web de Centro Nacional de Salud Mental y Educación www.naspcenter.org/espanol/retencion.html Changing the FACE of Child Mental Health - New York City www.aboutourkids.org/aboutour/articulos_espanol.html Consejo para padres www.eduplace.com/parents/rdg/sp_succeed.html Texas Association Against Sexual Assault www.taasa.org/esp New York Online Access to Health (NOAH) www.noah-health.org/es/mental/disorders/violence Alianza Latina Nacional para Erradicar la Violencia Domestica www.dvalianza.org El Hogar de mi Hermana (My Sister's Place) Washington, D.C. www.mysistersplacedc.org/spanish/aboutussp.asp Centro de Mujeres del Area de Houston www.hawc.org Sitio del Albergue para Mujeres Maltratadas, Naples, Florida www.naplesshelter.org/spanish/index.htm Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs (WCSAP) www.wcsap.org Alcoholicos Anónimos www.aa.org

First published in 1989, Dan Allender's The Wounded Heart has helped hundreds of thousands of people come to terms with sexual abuse in their past. Now, more than twenty-five years later, Allender has written a brand-new book on the subject that takes into account recent discoveries about the lasting physical, emotional, relational, and spiritual ramifications of sexual abuse. With great compassion Allender offers hope for victims of rape, date rape, incest, molestation, sexting, sexual bullying, unwanted advances, pornography, and more, exposing the raw wounds that are left behind and clearing the path toward wholeness and healing. Never minimizing victims' pain or offering pat spiritual answers that don't truly address the problem, he instead calls evil evil and lights the way to renewed joy. Counselors, pastors, and friends of those who have suffered sexual harm will find in this book the deep spiritual guidance they need to effectively minister to the sexually broken around them. Victims themselves will find here a sympathetic friend to walk alongside them on the road to healing.

This is a short book designed to answer the questions and address the concerns of parents whose children have been sexually abused. It is presented in question-and-answer format and covers emotional and behavioral problems in abused children and how parents can cope.

Helps adult victims of sexual assault move from brokenness to healing. This book outlines a theology or redemption and includes an application of how the disgrace of the cross can lead victims toward grace.

Written by the directors of S.A.F.E. Alternatives, a self-injury treatment program, "Bodily Harm" is an authoritative examination of this alarming syndrome, offering a comprehensive treatment regimen.

Editor of the award-winning site Feministing.com, Maya Dusenbery brings together scientific and sociological research, interviews with doctors and researchers, and personal stories from women across the country to provide the first comprehensive, accessible look at how sexism in medicine harms women today. In Doing Harm, Dusenbery explores the deep, systemic problems that underlie women’s experiences of feeling dismissed by the medical system. Women have been discharged from the emergency room mid-heart attack with a prescription for anti-anxiety meds, while others with autoimmune diseases have been labeled “chronic complainers” for years before being properly diagnosed. Women with endometriosis have been told they are just overreacting to “normal” menstrual cramps, while still others have “contested” illnesses like chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia that, dogged by psychosomatic suspicions, have yet to be fully accepted as “real” diseases by the whole of the profession. An eye-opening read for patients and health care providers alike, Doing Harm shows how women suffer because the medical community knows relatively less about their diseases and bodies and too often doesn’t trust their reports of their symptoms. The research community has neglected conditions that disproportionately affect women and paid little attention to biological differences between the sexes in everything from drug metabolism to the disease factors—even the symptoms of a heart attack. Meanwhile, a long history of viewing women as especially prone to “hysteria” reverberates to the present day, leaving women battling against a stereotype that they’re hypochondriacs whose ailments are likely to be “all in their heads.” Offering a clear-eyed explanation of the root causes of this insidious and entrenched bias and laying out its sometimes catastrophic consequences, Doing Harm is a rallying wake-up call that will change the way we look at health care for women.