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The Secret Keepers

Narratives Exploring the Inter and Transgenerational Effects of Childhood Sexual Abuse and Violence

By: Susan Dale

£39.99

Secrecy around childhood abuse creates a traumatic legacy passed through generations. This book demonstrates the use of narrative as a therapeutic process, finding creative ways for people to break the silence and live beyond being defined by abuse and violence.

Keeping the stories relating to childhood sexual abuse and violence secret within families seems core to the traumatic effect such abuse has on the lives…

Keeping the stories relating to childhood sexual abuse and violence secret within families seems core to the traumatic effect such abuse has on the lives of not just the person who has been abused, but also on their children and even their children’s children. This book demonstrates the uses of narrative practices both as a means to explore, through a collaborative research process, the effect of this traumatic legacy within families, and also the use of narrative as a dynamic therapeutic process which finds creative ways for people to break through the silence and live beyond being defined by abuse and violence. The contributors to this volume range in age, background and experience, but are linked through the common theme of inter and transgenerational trauma.

Susan Dale works as a counsellor, researcher and writer in private practice and is editor of the BACP’s Thresholds journal. Following the completion of a doctorate in education specialising in narrative and life story research, she has published widely in academic journals, on counselling and narrative practices, and is the author of Where Angels Fear to Tread: An Exploration of having Conversations about Suicide in a Counselling Context (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010) and Songs at Twilight: A Narrative Exploration of Living with a Visual Impairment and the Effect this has on Claims to Identity (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011).

Hardback

ISBN: 1-4438-4415-2
ISBN13: 978-1-4438-4415-4
Date of Publication: 2013-02-22

Ebook

ISBN: 1-4438-6666-0
ISBN13: 978-1-4438-6666-8
Date of Publication: 2013-02-22

Categories: Social Sciences, Sociology, Sociology, Personality, Social and Criminal Psychology

Pages: 175

Subject Codes:

BIC: JFFE1, JFFE3, JMH
BISAC: PSY022040, PSY041000, PSY010000, FAM001010, FAM052000, FAM053000
THEMA: JBFK1, JBFK3, JMH

Pages: 175

This amazing book should find a home in the library of every therapist no matter in which therapeutic approach or discipline they prefer to work. For many, the concept of Narrative Therapy will be new and there can be no better example of the skill required to achieve positive outcomes for this much damaged group of clients, who can be healed by this process. "[Susan] is an expert practitioner and her skills are evident as you read about the painful events in these client's lives, frequently across generations, continents and cultures. The case histories make compelling reading and a debt is owed by all the readers to the clients who have been willing to share their lives and enable all who read this book to become better therapists as a result.
- – Jan Hillman UKCP (BASRT) Psychosexual Counsellor, Psychotherapist
Reading this book has been life changing. I have recently attained my diploma in counselling, and currently work as a volunteer counsellor at a project which specialises in assisting people affected by childhood abuse. The stories from the book have already influenced how I work, and I am sure [they] will be of great interest to counsellors working in this field.
- – Stacy Simons MBACP Volunteer Counsellor, Krane Project

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Susan Dale

Threads of Hope

Counselling and Emotional Support Services for Communities in Crisis

By: Susan Dale

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This book uses a collaborative narrative research process to explore the lived experiences of one specific group of community members who responded to a traumatic event by setting up, and running, a therapeutic project to support the community between 2012 and 2014.

Songs at Twilight

A Narrative Exploration of Living with a Visual Impairment and the Effect this has on Claims to Identity

By: Susan Dale

£39.99

A visually impaired author and thirty contributors explore their experiences of living with a visual impairment and its effect on their identity. Through collaborative narrative, they challenge sighted assumptions about blindness.

Where Angels Fear to Tread

An Exploration of having Conversations about Suicide in a Counselling Context

By: Susan Dale

£34.99

Where Angels Fear to Tread highlights the ethical and emotional challenges for counsellors when clients become suicidal. It explores the tension between protective professional guidelines and the needs of a client in overwhelming pain, told through narrative research.

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