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Summary: Young men surviving child sexual abuse
Review: Andrew Durham made his PhD in Applied Social Studies from the University of Warwick and with more than 20 years of experience in working with children and adolescents the likely candidate as author for this book. The book is published as a partnership between Wiley and NSPCC, the United Kingdom National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, in a book series that explores current issues relating to the prevention of child abuse and child protection.
This book is about the lives of Justin (22 years), Paul (23), Colin (18), Liam (22), Sean (21), David (15) and Ryan (15), all sexually abused in their adolescence by their headmaster, strangers, teacher or the local computer club man called Harry. The victims and perpetrators all male. It is hoped that Wiley and NSPCC will find an author to write the book on the child male victim and the female perpetrator.
The life story method of data collection is used in order to analyse and understand the impact of the child sexual abuse on each of these seven boys. This is a book about relationships, where a trust has been broken between an adult, usually in a power position, and a child in his care. This is a serious harm that will stay with these children for the rest of their lives and Andrew Durham has managed to describe their struggle for survival, the framework for therapy and assistance in recovery with seven case-examples.
An important book for the professional working with children or adolescents, who has experienced child sexual abuse. Professor Joav Merrick, MD
Director, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and Medical director, Division for Mental Retardation... Mohammed Morad, MD
Family physician, Division for Community Health, Ben Gurion University...
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