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Owen and his best friend, Sean, have lived on Cape Cod all their lives. When Sean's mother hires a babysitter to look after Sean, they're upset-- they're eleven! Too old for a babysitter! Paul is in his twenties, and a well-liked guy from church. When Paul starts doing things to Sean that just feel wrong, he tells Owen, and no one else. Sean warns him not to tell anyone what is happening. But if Owen doesn't tell, could something even worse happen...
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Originally published in 1991, The Sexual Healing Journey is a highly respected resource for understanding and healing the intimate sexual problems caused by sex abuse. In this third edition, renowned author, psychotherapist, and certified sex therapist Wendy Maltz keeps this classic recovery book fresh with revised materials and a new preface. Compassionate and enduring, this guide presents a comprehensive program for healing that combines expert...
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Fifteen-year-old Janna Yusuf, a Flannery O'Connor-obsessed book nerd and the daughter of the only divorced mother at their mosque, tries to make sense of the events that follow when her best friend's cousin--a holy star in the Muslim community--attempts to assault her at the end of sophomore year.
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The Courage to Heal is a 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 who care about her. Although the effects of child sexual abuse are long-term and severe, healing is possible. Weaving together personal experience with professional knowledge, the authors provide clear explanations, practical suggestions, and support throughout the healing process. Readers...
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2020.
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255 pages ; 23 cm.
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NO MAS SECRETOS SUCIOS NO MAS ENCUBRIMIENTOS ¿Cómo podemos prevenir el abuso y la violencia sexual contra niñas, niños y adolescentes? ¿Cómo escuchar a nuestras hijas y nuestros hijos? ¿Cómo podemos detectar síntomas de maltrato en ellas y ellos? ¿Cuáles son los pasos a seguir para denunciar? ¿Quiénes pueden ayudarnos en el proceso? ¿Cómo podemos empezar a curar las heridas y las cicatrices? Éstas y más preguntas se resolverón...
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The first book written specifically for men, Victims No Longer examines the changing cultural attitudes toward male survivors of incest and other sexual trauma. Now, in this second edition, this invaluable resource continues to offer compassionate and practical advice, supported by personal anecdotes and statements of male survivors. Victims No Longer helps survivors to:
- Identify and validate their childhood experiences
- Explore strategies of...
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[2014]
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27 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
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"Without being taught about body boundaries, a child may be too young to understand when abuse is happening--or that it's wrong. This straightforward, gentle book offers a tool parents, teachers, and counselors can use to help children feel, be, and stay safe. The rhyming story and simple, friendly illustrations provide a way to sensitively share and discuss the topic, guiding young children to understand that their private parts belong to them alone....
10) The tale
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2018.
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1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A groundbreaking film memoir, based on the filmmaker's own personal experiences, this HBO Films presentation tells the story of Jennifer Fox (Laura Dern), a globetrotting documentarian and professor living an apparently enviable life with her boyfriend (Common) in NYC. That world is turned upside down when her mother (Ellen Burstyn) discovers a story Jennifer wrote at 13 depicting a "special" relationship she had with two adult coaches, Mrs. G (Elizabeth...
11) Such sharp teeth
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"A young woman in need of a transformation finds herself in touch with the animal inside in this gripping, incisive novel from the author of Cackle and The Return. Rory Morris isn't thrilled to be moving back to her hometown, even if it is temporary. There are bad memories there. But her twin sister, Scarlett, is pregnant, estranged from the baby's father, and needs support, so Rory returns to the place she thought she'd put in her rearview. After...
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"At thirteen years old, Stephen Mills is chosen for special attention by the director of his Jewish summer camp, a charismatic social worker. Stephen, whose father had died when he was four, places his trust in this authority figure, who then grooms and molests him for two years. The boy tells no one, but the aftershocks rip through his life: self-loathing, drugs, petty crime, and horrific nightmares, all made worse by the discovery that his abuser...
13) Twist of faith
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©2006
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1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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DVD-R. Presents the story of Tony Comes, a Toledo, Ohio, fireman, husband, and father, as he comes to terms with his molestation by a Catholic priest when he was a teenager.
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"Brian and Jeff were best friends, growing up together in New York City in the late 1960s. Then something happened that drove a wedge between them, ending both their friendship and their childhood, something that neither ever spoke about--at least until their shared secret resurfaced some forty years later, forcing them to reunite and, along with Jeff's cousin Julie, to face the consequences of their years of silence."--
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2015.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
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"Decir no y rechazar contactos desagradables no es fácil. A los niños seguros de sí mismos les cuesta menos decir lo que quieren y lo que no quieren. Por eso es importante que todos los niños tomen conciencia de sus emociones y de su cuerpo. Solo así podrán establecer límites."
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2021.
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The jailhouse lawyer: A young lawyer takes on the judge who is destroying her hometown--and ends up in jail herself. In picture-perfect Erva, Alabama, the most serious crimes are misdemeanors. Speeding tickets. Shoplifting. Contempt of court. Then why is the jail so crowded? And why are so few prisoners released? There's only one place to learn the truth behind these incriminating secrets. Sometimes the best education a lawyer can get is a short stretch...
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[2017]
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1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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"...Investigates the international crisis of human sex trafficking, particularly of minors, from a deeply personal point of view. Anchored by frank interviews with survivors of both child sexual abuse and sex trafficking, Stopping Traffic breaks the silence for millions of voiceless victims." -- Container.
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2023.
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v, 265 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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"The #MeToo movement brought worldwide attention to sexual violence, but while the media focused on the fates of a few notorious predators who were put on trial, we heard far less about the outcomes of those trials for the survivors of their abuse. The conventional retributive process fails to serve most survivors; it was never designed for them. Renowned trauma expert Judith L. Herman argues that the first step toward a better form of justice is...
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