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One of the most important books ever written on domestic violence, Coercive Control breaks through entrenched views of physical abuse that have ultimately failed to protect women. Evan Stark, founder of one of America's first battered women's shel...

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On 28 August 1984, Josef Fritzl drugged his teenage daughter with ether and imprisoned her in an underground bunker behind eight locked doors. Over the following twenty-four years, he raped and abused her, never letting her or the children she bor...

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This definitive textbook provides accessible information on best practice for assessing the needs and strengths of vulnerable children and their families. It explores the challenges that practitioners face routinely - with suggestions as to how to...

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Sibling sexual abuse is considered to be one of the most common forms of child sexual abuse within the family setting, yet it is often ignored, downplayed or denied in spite the impact on survivors. Shining a spotlight on the hidden phenomenon, Ch...

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Never before has world-renowned psychoanalyst Alice Miller examined so persuasively the long-range consequences of childhood abuse on the body. Using the experiences of her patients along with the biographical stories of literary giants such as Vi...

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Fourteen-year-old Shazia has been taken into care after a conversation at school leads her teacher to suspect that the teenager's family are planning to send her to Pakistan for an arranged marriage. To her family's fury, Shazia is sent ...

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Lara was seven when her birth mother died from a drug overdose. With no extended family to look after her, she was put into foster care. The care system failed Lara and now she is failing her son. Lara and her one-year-old son, Arthur, are brought...

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I was a good girl who was just 'helping Daddy' in the hell that I called home. Scarlett is just 8 years old when the horrific abuse at the hands of her father begins. It creates a world of shocking normality, one that she can only escape in her mi...

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This insightful guide provides a pragmatic roadmap for treating adult survivors of complex psychological trauma. Christine Courtois and Julian Ford present their effective, research-based approach for helping clients move through three clearly def...

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From Torey Hayden, the number one Sunday Times bestselling author of One Child comes The Invisible Girl, a deeply moving true account of a young teen with a troubling obsession and an extraordinary educational psychologist's sympathy and dete...

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PARIS: A MILLION MEANINGS IN A SINGLE NAME Heiress. Party girl. Problem child. Selfie taker. Model. Reality star. Self-created. The labels attached to Paris Hilton. Founder. Entrepreneur. Pop Culture Maker. Innovator. Survivor. Activist. Daughter....

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'A masterclass in understanding' ANNIE GRACE, author of This Naked Mind Ten questions to ask yourself, right now: * Do you have a sense that something is wrong, but you don't know what it is? * Do you have a feeling that you are hol...

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Caroline Engvall, författare till "14 år till salu" och "Skuggbarn", är tillbaka med en ny smärtsam och obeskrivligt viktig bok om ungas utsatthet. Idag är sexuella bilder, filmer och meddelanden en stor del av ungas vardag. I ...

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A dramatic and remarkable narrative of an extraordinary teacher's determination, from the author of the Sunday Times bestsellers The Tiger's Child and One Child. Torey Hayden faced six emotionally troubled kids no other teacher could han...

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The No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller. At just eight years old, Jodie is violent, aggressive and extremely challenging. Five carers in four months have been unable to cope, but there is one last hope: Cathy Glass As Jodie begins to trust Cathy and mak...

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Författarens första utgivna bok av tre titlar under samma tema. "Livskraft" handlar om att läka komplex traumatisering och dissociation. Författaren skrev denna bok för att berätta för sina anhöriga om de sexuella övergrepp hon utsattes ...

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Can I Let You Go? is the true story of Faye, a wonderful young woman who may never be able to parent her unborn child. Faye is 24, pregnant, and has learning difficulties as a result of her mothers alcoholism. Faye is gentle, childlike and vulnera...

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Evie and Elliot are scrawny, filthy and wide-eyed with fear when they turn up on foster carer Maggie Hartley's doorstep. Aged just two and three years old, this brother and sister have hardly set foot outside their own home. They have been pr...

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Fångad, drogad och utnyttjad   Bara tolv år gammal skrevs Barbara O Hare in på mentalsjukhuset Aston Hall år 1971. Men istället för räddningen undan hennes svåra hemsituation var det början på ett nytt helvete. Barbara utsattes för ofattbara ...

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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This edited collection explores the background and implementation of the Nordic Barnahus (or 'Children's House') model recognised as one of the most important reforms related to ch...

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A 5-year-old boy, Ethan, is brought to Casey in the middle of the night after the sudden death of his young mother after a drug overdose. Estranged from her parents, Ethans mum had been abused by her ex-partner, and began taking drugs to cope. Eth...

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Come to terms with your past while moving powerfully into the future The Courage to Heal is an inspiring, comprehensive guide that offers hope and a map of the healing journey to every woman who was sexually abused as a child—and to those wh...

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For fourteen years, Jayne Senior tried to help girls from Rotherham who had been groomed, raped, tortured, pimped and threatened with violence by sex traffickers. As the manager of Risky Business, which was set up to work with vulnerable teens, sh...

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'Immensely powerful and is an extraordinary testament to the human desire for survival' Daily Mail A harrowing and inspiring true story of a young boy's abusive childhood, from internationally bestselling author Dave Pelzer. Brutall...

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When a parent singles out a child for special privileges and attention, that child is often unaware that the relationship is unhealthyeven incestuous. As adults, these children struggle to feel validated, because while they have not been directly ...

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New York Times Bestseller Now a Netflix Film Rich, tragic...monumental . . . true-crime reporting at its best.Washington Post The bestselling account of the lives of five young women whose fates converged in the perplexing case of the Long Island ...

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Berättelsen om hur en helt vanlig familj hamnade mitt i en av vår tids största rättsskandaler. En sommardag 1998 hittas den fyraåriga pojken Kevin död i Arvika och bröderna Christian och Robin, fem och sju år gamla, förklaras skyldiga. Men i själv...

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What could cause a mother to believe that giving away her newborn baby is her only option? Cathy Glass is about to find out. From author of Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller Damaged comes a harrowing and moving memoir about tiny Harrison,...

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A tale of survival and freedom, Stolen Innocence is the story of one heroic woman who stood up for what was right and reclaimed her life. In September 2007, a packed courtroom in St. George, Utah, sat hushed as Elissa Wall, the star witness agains...

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»Jag bad till Gud att någon skulle säga till min pappa: Vad håller ni på med, din unge är ju frisk? De var ju utbildade läkare, de måste ha fattat. Men ingen sa något.« De låg instängda i mörka lägenheter i år efter år, utan någon kontakt med omvä...

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