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Understanding Adult Survivors of Domestic Violence in Childhood

Still Forgotten, Still Hurting
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Domestic violence experienced in childhood continues to have an enduring emotional impact into adulthood. The scars it leaves can impact on family lives, employment, and long-term emotional and mental health.This accessible book explores the experiences of adult survivors of domestic violence in childhood, with personal accounts and poems featuring throughout. The author draws on 40 years' experience at the forefront of the field to bring together current research, best practice guidance for those working with both adults and children, and personal testimonies from survivors. It covers interventions to help children exposed to domestic violence to avoid problems later in life, as well as guidance on and ideas for working with adult survivors.This important book will be essential reading for all those working with survivors of domestic violence in childhood, including counsellors, social workers and therapists, as well as students, academics and policy makers.
Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction and background: Adults who were exposed to domestic violence as children. 2. Before you grow up: What the research tells us about children who experience domestic violence. 3. Scarcely an issue at all in the UK: Research on adults who experienced domestic violence as children. 4. The impacts of childhood domestic violence on adults: What survivors say. 5. Finding hope in a cold place and thriving against the odds: Testimony by 'Rose Wood'. 6. Dealing with it at the time: Working with children exposed to domestic violence to enable less painful later adulthoods. 7. Still Hurting: Testimony by 'Anna'. 8. How to move forward: Recovery, assistance and support for adults with childhood experiences of domestic abuse. 9. Both pain and being shielded: Testimony by 'Patrick'. 10. It really can get better: Conclusion. References. Index.
It will undoubtedly appeal to anyone, working with adults, therapists, counsellors, social workers, students and policy-makers...Using a qualitative approach, including the work of a focus group, personal interviews and the writings of survivors, the authors highlight the lifetime impact on individuals whose childhoods were specifically affected by domestic violence.
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