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Books on Sexual Abuse, Physical Abuse, Neglect, Rape, Bullies, Self Injury and Other Abuse Issues
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MUST HAVES for abuse survivors, friends and family

For more books on Self Injury please go here and here are more books on Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)

1. Invisible Girls: The Truth About Sexual Abuse--A Book for Teen Girls, Young Women, and Everyone Who Cares About Them 2. When Your Child Has Been Molested: A Parents Guide to Healing and Recovery 3. Please Tell!: A Child's Story About Sexual Abuse (Early Steps)

Invisible Girls: The Truth About Sexual Abuse--A Book for Teen Girls, Young Women, and Everyone Who Cares About Them

By: Judith Reichman

Reader Comment:
"A book that can really help teenage girls who are dealing with sexual trauma at a young age."

buy the book $11


When Your Child Has Been Molested: A Parents Guide to Healing and Recovery

By: Kathryn Brohl, Joyce Case Potter

Reader Comment:
"Thanks to this book, we were finally able to understand that many of the behaviors that our daughter was showing at the time stemmed from her trauma."

buy the book $14


Please Tell!: A Child's Story About Sexual Abuse (Early Steps)

By: Jessie Ottenweller

Reader Comment:
"It's told in the first person by a little girl who is sexually abused by her uncle in terms that a young child can understand."

buy the book $10


4. The Future of Child Protection: Revised Edition 5. The Courage to Heal Workbook: A Guide for Women and Men Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse 6.   The Body Never Lies: The Lingering Effects of Hurtful Parenting

The Future of Child Protection: Revised Edition

By: Jane Waldfogel

Reader Comment:
"The book is clearly written and the scholarship first-rate. "

buy the book $23


The Courage to Heal Workbook: A Guide for Women and Men Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse

By: Laura Davis

Reader Comment:
"For all survivors and their partners and families this is a book that gives hope, understanding and reassurance. Well worth it."

buy the book $15


The Body Never Lies: The Lingering Effects of Hurtful Parenting

By: Alice Miller

Reader Comment:
"Her visionary humanity leads the way into a new era, where the source of needless human suffering is movingly and powerfully recognized."

buy the book $11


7. The Right Touch: A Read-Aloud Story to Help Prevent Child Sexual Abuse 8. All But My Soul: Abuse Beyond Control 9.   No Visible Wounds: Identifying Non-Physical Abuse of Women by Their Men

The Right Touch: A Read-Aloud Story to Help Prevent Child Sexual Abuse

By: Sandy Kleven

Reader Comment: "An excellent, pro-active tool to help families empower themselves regarding child molestation."

buy the book $11


All But My Soul: Abuse Beyond Control

By: Jeanne King

Reader Comment: "Ms. King tells her story with profound truth while relating the further progressions of control when seeking help from the justice system."

buy the book $20


No Visible Wounds: Identifying Non-Physical Abuse of Women by Their Men

By: Mary Susan Phd Miller

Reader Comment: "Reading this book helped me understand his motivations and my responses in a way that counseling did not."

buy the book $11


10. What Parents Need to Know About Sibling Abuse: Breaking the Cycle of Violence 11. Victims No Longer: The Classic Guide for Men Recovering from Sexual Child Abuse 12. The Bully, the Bullied, and the Bystander: From Preschool to High School--How Parents and Teachers Can Help Break the Cycle of Violence

What Parents Need to Know About Sibling Abuse: Breaking the Cycle of Violence

By: Vernon R. Wiehe

Reader Comment: "a solid, practical approach to dealing with sibling conflict and violence, brought to life with quotes directly from survivors of sibling abuse."

buy the book $11


Victims No Longer: The Classic Guide for Men Recovering from Sexual Child Abuse

By: Mike Lew

Reader Comment: "There are not enough words to describe the extraordinary gains I've received from reading this book."

buy the book $14


The Bully, the Bullied, and the Bystander: From Preschool to High School--How Parents and Teachers Can Help Break the Cycle of Violence

By: Barbara Coloroso

Reader Comment: "She hands us the solution to a prevalent problem for kids."

buy the book $11


13.   And Words Can Hurt Forever: How to Protect Adolescents from Bullying, Harassment, and Emotional Violence 14. Ending School Violence: Solutions from America's Youth 15.   How to Stop a Stalker

And Words Can Hurt Forever: How to Protect Adolescents from Bullying, Harassment, and Emotional Violence

By: James Garbarino

Reader Comment:
"Easily understandable and highly informative and not at all lacking in details."

buy the book: $11


Ending School Violence: Solutions from America's Youth

By: Jason Ryan Dorsey

Reader Comment:
"students like myself that read this book are able to find the steps it takes towards a more safe environment."

buy the book: $15


How to Stop a Stalker

By: Mike Proctor

Reader Comment:
"If you are the stalking victim this book might help you save your own life."

buy the book $15


16. HTML clipboard   Self-Injury: When Pain Feels Good 17. HTML clipboard   Bodily Harm: The Breakthrough Healing Program for Self-Injurers 18.   See My Pain!: Creative Strategies and Activities for Helping Young People Who Self-Injure

Self-Injury: When Pain Feels Good

By: Edward T. Welch

Reader Comment:
This text is provides the reader with an excellent layman's description of the illness and the potential and methods of treatment.

buy the book $2.00


Bodily Harm: The Breakthrough Healing Program for Self-Injurers

By: Jennifer Kingsonbloom, Karen Conterio, Wendy Lader

Reader Comment:
"This book is a must have to school counselors, especially those who work with middle school girls. Most counselor who don't have the information may feel at a loss for how to be helpful without over reacting. The book provides insight and how to be helpful to the student that is in crisis."

buy the book $11


See My Pain!: Creative Strategies and Activities for Helping Young People Who Self-Injure

By: Susan Bowman, Kaye Randall

Reader Comment:
"This activity book was a great resource! I used it for a group processing course and was able to get some awesome handouts that you are able to reproduce."

buy the book $20


19.   Cutting: Understanding and Overcoming Self-Mutilation 20.   A Bright Red Scream 21. The Scarred Soul: Understanding & Ending Self-Inflicted Violence

Cutting: Understanding and Overcoming Self-Mutilation

By: Steven Levenkron

Reader Comment:
This book is about people who cut and has ways to help cutters overcome their addiction to cutting as a means of escape and find better alternatives to this destructive lifestyle.

buy the book $11


A Bright Red Scream

By: Marilee Strong

Reader Comment:
"The book is extremely well written and researched and the case studies sited enable the reader to identify - whether you are or were a self-injurer yourself or know someone who is."

buy the book $12


The Scarred Soul: Understanding & Ending Self-Inflicted Violence

By: Tracy Alderman

Reader Comment:
"This is basically a self-help book. I think it might be a little too scary for a young person just doing a little mild cutting, because it describes some severe chronic cases."

buy the book $12


22.   Bodies under Siege: Self-mutilation and Body Modification in Culture and Psychiatry
23.   Skin Game: A Memoir 24.
Treating Self-Injury: A Practical Guide

Bodies under Siege: Self-mutilation and Body Modification in Culture and Psychiatry

By: Armando R. Favazza

Reader Comment:
"Many people look at this book to be designed solely for sufferers...it isn't. As it states, it discusses Self-Mutilation and Body Modification in Culture and Psychiatry."

buy the book $21


Skin Game: A Memoir

By: Caroline Kettlewell

Reader Comment:
"I could not put this book down. It doesn't focus as much on the cutting as I thought it would when I bought it, but it paints a very real portrait of a 'cutter'."

buy the book $11


Treating Self-Injury: A Practical Guide

by Barent W. Walsh

Reader Comment:
"This book contains case studies of real life situations with a variety and diversity of ages, genders and backgrounds."

buy the book $22


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Last Updated( Feb 05, 2009 )
reviewed by: Harry Croft, MD
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