Good Practice in Counselling People Who Have Been Abused

Men as victims/offenders, David Briggs; abuse and self harm, Lois Arnold and Gloria Babiker; counselling children, Madge Bray; people with learning difficulties, Steve Morris; empowerment, Sandra Samuels; abuse of elders, Jacki Pritchard; beyond survival, Sharon Gilbert; abuse and substance misuse, Ronno Griffiths; ritual abuse, Sara Scott; survivor's perspective, Runa Wolf; complex post traumatic stress disorder, Liz Hall; race and abuse, Jalner Hanmer.

This is an interesting book written from the perspective of survivors of child sexual abuse, providing detailed, and rather harrowing, accounts of recovery from early experiences of childhood abuse. Overall, this is a timely, interesting and important publication which will be read sympathetically by those working with child sexual abuse victims, which may contribute to a responsible debate about the nature of traumatic amnesia and which in the words of the editor, Zetta Bear, may ""serve as a marker for the responsible and ethical allocation of resources in the future"".