Secondary trauma is an occupational hazard in social service providers because professionals routinely work with clients who have experienced trauma. In their efforts to understand others and to be responsive...

Women often do not know about the changes they may experience as they grow older. This article outlines the changes that women can expect by the time they reach 50 and beyond. I start from the top of...

Emma is a beautiful chestnut filly who wants a forever person. First she thought Maggie would be her forever person, but Maggie said Emma had floppy ears. Then Emma thought Jane would be her forever person....

Attachment is fundamental to child development. The article covers attachment in infancy and childhood, adult attachment, issues related to attunement, inner working models, mutual regulation, and repair....

This article provides guidelines for protecting children from sexual abuse and what to do if children have been sexually abused.

Friendly, affable Bobby looks like a younger version of Richard Gere, but with even more charm. You'd love to have him for a next door neighbor until he tells you stories of his life as a drug addict....

Through case studies, this book shows what child sexual abuse means to children who have been sexually abused, perpetrators, mothers, and other family members. In their own words, persons directly affected...

Women and girls sexually abuse children far more often than many people realize. This article describes what child sexual abuse means to women and girl perpetrators.Sexual abuse by women and girls can...

Researchers' own experiences affect every aspect of the research they do, from conceptualization of the issues to be researched, relationships with research participants, to interpretation of findings,...

Grounded theory is an open-ended approach to research that can be adapted to many uses. This article shows how adaptable grounded theory is and was meant to be. Originating in the Chicago school of Sociology...

For more than 25 years, I have done research on perpetrators of violence and on persons who have risks for violence but lived law-abiding, pro-social lives. I talked to them in prisons and treatment centers....

The only time Joe felt loveable and worthy was when he was sexual with boys. Handsome and well-educated, he said once the abuse came out, he felt like a monster and feared becoming "Bubba's Bitch" in...

Case study research is valuable because of its contribution to theory. Without reference to theory, case studies provide anecdotal information. In other words, case studies only have value in relationship...

For the first five months of this year, a Roman Catholic bishop in the United States had in his possession photographs that a priest in his diocese had taken of little girls' genitals. The bishop did...

Do sexually abused children become abusers? Most do not. Persons who do not become abusers have protective factors in their lives that help them to cope with, adapt to, and overcome the effects of the...

Child sexual abuse means many things to abusers, but they rarely see what they do as abuse. This article shows in perpetrators' own words what child sexual abuse means to them. By understanding what abusers...

Children & teens who are sexually aggressive and who are preoccupied with sex worry parents and for good reason. This short book provides information on how to help child & teens who behave in...

Children have a lot to say about their own sexual abuse, much of it surprising. They know far more than adults realize and have views that call out abusers for who they really are. Based on interviews,...