Good Practice in Counselling People Who Have Been Abused

Zetta Bear is Training and Development Manager for the National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders (NACRO). She provides training to staff working with people who have been abused and has a private therapy practice in West Yorkshire.

The 13 chapters here are wide-ranging; they include a contribution on work with people with learning difficulties and work with older people, areas of adult abuse that have been compartmentalised and set aside from mainstream interests. Other marginalised groups or individuals are also included such as drug users and male victims, survivors of domestic violence and those who self-injure. Each chapter is followed by a helpful reading list or references. Students may well find these chapters very instructive and compelling... This text looks set to appeal to a variety of readers from who may seek out individual chapters to practicing counsellors who may wish to see well-organised text with up to date material that is concisely written without being superficial.

• Introduction, Majorie Orr, Accuracy About Abuse . 1. Becoming Real: The Story of a Long Journey Through Psychiatry, Counselling and Psychotherapy, Runa Wolf, private practice, West Yorkshire. 2.Patrick and the Tumble Drier: Counselling Troubled Children, Madge Bray, Sexual Abuse Child Consultancy Service (SACCHS). 3.Drug Users Who Were Sexually Abused as Children, Ronno Griffiths, independent consultant. 4.What Happens Now?: Issues for Practice in Working With Domestic Abuse, Siobhan Lloyd, University of Aberdeen. 5.Therapeutic Responses to People With Learning Disabilities Who Have Been Abused, Nerys Hughes and Janet Hughes 6.Counselling Survivors of Ritual Abuse, Sara Scott, University of Manchester. 7.Counselling and the Male Survivor, Peter Brown, Leeds Survivors' Collective, and Ron Weiner, Leeds University. 8.Men as Victims of Sexual Abuse, Men as Abusers, David Briggs, National Sexual Offender Treatment Association. 9.Psychodynamic Counselling and Older People Who Have Been Abused, Jacki Pritchard, independent trainer, consultant and researcher. 10.Counselling People Who Self Injure Lois Arnold, Basement Project, Bristol, and Gloria Babiker, Exeter University.11. Dissociative Disorders, Liz Hall, independent clinical psychologist. 12.Working With Uncertainty Zetta Bear, National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders. 13.The Impact of Professional Workers, Kate Kirk, freelance psychodramatist, supervisor and trainer.