Reclaiming Lives from Sexual Violence Understanding Shame through Innovative Narrative Therapy

Reclaiming Lives from Sexual Violence Understanding Shame through Innovative Narrative TherapyOut 29 March 2022 pre order your copy. This book takes an innovative approach to using narrative therapy in counseling people who have been subject to childhood sexual abuse. Reclaiming Lives from Sexual Violence presents an illustrative case study of the authors, Tim the therapist in consultation with Dale the client, who was sexually abused as a child by a clergy member. The book is unique in documenting their therapeutic work using transcripts

He calls them atomic habits

every dream

and watches her two friends dance by the sea

Francis Smith

There are many creative suggestions on how to banish the Disappointment Dragon and an introduction for adults explaining disappointment in children and how they can help

and it took them twenty years to find each other again

the means by which we fill the holes at our centre

We are coming

but not exact or fixed boundaries

this lyrical text is paired with exquisite high-contrast illustrations by Kamilaroi author and illustrator Gregg Dreise

on their journey through the Great Sandy Desert

shelters in the woods where she befriends an Irishman trapper