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Abused Women and Survivor Therapy: A Practical Guide for the Psychotherapist | 
 enlarge | Author: Lenore E. Walker
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 1065423
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 529
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Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.3 x 1.4
ISBN: 1557982295
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.85210082
EAN: 9781557982292
ASIN: 1557982295
Publication Date: June 1994
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Useful and informative December 29, 1999
30 out of 31 found this review helpful
Current societal beliefs and the impact on victims of sexual abuse is something any psychotherapist should be aware of. The tendency to blame the victim is still very much present throughout our society and even in psychological practice. Regrettably, I doubt that psychiatrists and psychotherapist who still hold such traditional beliefs would ever buy this book in the first place. Is there any value in this book then for those who already are aware of the negative impact and the implicit assumptions we often have about women and victims of sexual abuse? It definately is if you want to be more informed and incorperate the main principles of survivor therapy in your clinical practice. Even though many of these principles such as safety, empowerment, validation and an emphasis on strenghts appear to be self evident, they do deserve special attention when carefully considering the societal impact in the destruction of these principles in women. However, do not expect this book to be giving you a detailed approach to survivor therapy in how to use it in practice however. Only a small part of the book is dedicated to this specifically, which is probably the greatest weakness of the book. Many more interesting connections could have been made between societal beliefs and the principles of survivor therapy. If society in itself forms the theoretical foundation of survivor therapy, then this could have been made more explicit and approached in a more methodological manner, which would have led to a more detailed explanation of what survivor therapy exactly is.
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