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Transforming Trauma
A Guide to Understanding and Treating Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse



June 2014 | 376 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Practitioners helping adult survivors of child sexual abuse need to be aware of the thought processes of offenders. The premise of Anna Salter's major book is that those who do not recognize an internalized perpetrator when they hear one will often be frustrated by the tenacity of the survivor's self blame.

Primarily oriented towards treating adult survivors, this invaluable book will also be useful for treating sex offenders. It includes discussion of crucial issues such as: what clinicians who treat survivors need to know about sex offenders; the different ways sadistic and nonsadistic offenders think and the resulting different `footprints' they leave in the heads of survivors; how trauma affects survivors' world-views; whether apology sessions re-abuse survivors; and what is effective, and why telling a client that `it's not your fault' is ineffective, in combating an internalized perpetrator. Finally, Salter describes the steps of therapy for survivors and proposes that trauma can be transformed rather than just endured.

 
What Do We Know about Sex Offenders and What Does It Mean?
 
The Deviant Cycle
 
Sadistic versus Nonsadistic Offenders and Their Effects on Victims
 
Apology and Forgiveness in the Context of the Cycles of Adult Male Sex Offenders Who Abuse Children
 
Footprints on the Heart
Effects of Child Sexual Abuse on Emotions

 
 
Sex Offenders in the Head
Effects of Child Sexual Abuse on Victim Thinking

 
 
Managing Chronic Pain
 
Links between Offenders and Victims
Summing Up

 
 
Crossing Open Ground
Trauma and Transformation

 
 
Epilogue

Anna C. Salter

Dr. Salter received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and Public Practice from Harvard University and obtained a Masters Degree in Child Study from Tufts. She was a Teaching Fellow at both Universities. Dr. Salter has lived in Madison Wisconsin since 1996 and consults half time to the Wisconsin Department of Corrections.... More About Author

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ISBN: 9780803955097
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