The Secret Keepers

Narratives Exploring the Inter and Transgenerational Effects of Childhood Sexual Abuse and Violence
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4438-4415-4
Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 175 Seiten

Keeping the stories relating to childhood sexual abuse and violence secret within families seems core to the traumatic effect such abuse has on the lives of not just the person who has been abused, but also on their children and even their children’s children. This book demonstrates the uses of narrative practices both as a means to explore, through a collaborative research process, the effect of this traumatic legacy within families, and also the use of narrative as a dynamic therapeutic process which finds creative ways for people to break through the silence and live beyond being defined by abuse and violence. The contributors to this volume range in age, background and experience, but are linked through the common theme of inter and transgenerational trauma.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dale, Susan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Familientherapie, Paartherapie, Gruppentherapie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Entwicklungspsychologie Familienpsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Kindesmissbrauch, Sexueller Missbrauch, Häusliche Gewalt

Über Autor(innen)

Dale, Susan
Susan Dale works as a counsellor, researcher and writer in private practice and is editor of the BACP’s Thresholds journal. Following the completion of a doctorate in education specialising in narrative and life story research, she has published widely in academic journals, on counselling and narrative practices, and is the author of Where Angels Fear to Tread: An Exploration of having Conversations about Suicide in a Counselling Context (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010) and Songs at Twilight: A Narrative Exploration of Living with a Visual Impairment and the Effect this has on Claims to Identity (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011).

Susan Dale works as a counsellor, researcher and writer in private practice and is editor of the BACP’s Thresholds journal. Following the completion of a doctorate in education specialising in narrative and life story research, she has published widely in academic journals, on counselling and narrative practices, and is the author of Where Angels Fear to Tread: An Exploration of having Conversations about Suicide in a Counselling Context (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010) and Songs at Twilight: A Narrative Exploration of Living with a Visual Impairment and the Effect this has on Claims to Identity (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011).