
- 272 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
A scholarly handbook focusing on variables that assist in confronting and preventing the forms of sexual victimization, which include rape, child abductions, battering, sexual harassment, and incest. Resources include parent and teacher training, public education and awareness, and psychotherapeutic techniques for families and friends of victims as well as the victims themselves. All contributors to this handbook have been active in research, advocacy, and legislation in sexual victimization of children, adolescents, and adults. It will be of special interest to individuals who work in the area of sexual victimization: psychologists and psychiatrists, social workers, attorneys, policymakers, agency and shelter volunteers and professionals, clergy, and faculty and students in psychology, women's studies, law, medicine.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I: Sexual Victimization by Family Members
- Part II: Sexual Victimization in Dating and Marital Relationships
- Part III: Sexual Victimization by Strangers
- Part IV: Sexual Victimization in Educational and Work Settings
- Part V: Sexual Victimization: Legal and Legislative Responses
- Part VI: Sexual Victimization: Resources for Teaching, Research, and Advocacy
- Appendices
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- About the Contributors