Creative Response To Child Sexual Abuse: Challenges And Dilemmas

Creative Responses to Child Sexual Abuse of related interest Creating a Safe Place Helping Children and Families Recover from Child Sexual Abuse NCH Children and Families Project ISBN 1 84310 009 6 Child Protection Work Beyond the Rhetoric Helen Buckley ISBN 1 84310 075 4 Play Therapy Where the Sky Meets the Underworld Ann Cattanach ISBN 1 85302 211 X Childhood Experiences of Domestic Violence Caroline McGee ISBN 1 85302 827 4 Making an Impact – Children and Domestic Violence A Reader Marianne Hester, Chris Pearson and Nicola Harwin ISBN 1 85302 844 4 The Child’s World Assessing Children in Need Edited by Jan Horwath ISBN 1 85302 957 2 Helping Families in Family Centres Working at Therapeutic Practice Edited by Linnet McMahon and Adrian Ward ISBN 1 85302 835 5 The Early Years Assessing and Promoting Resilience in Vulnerable Children 1 Brigid Daniel and Sally Wassell ISBN 1 84310 013 4 The School Years Assessing and Promoting Resilience in Vulnerable Children 2 Brigid Daniel and Sally Wassell ISBN 1 84310 018 5 Adolescence Assessing and Promoting Resilience in Vulnerable Children 3 Brigid Daniel and Sally Wassell ISBN 1 84310 019 3 Set ISBN 1 84310 045 2 Creative Responses to Child Sexual Abuse Challenges and Dilemmas Revised Edition Edited by Sue Richardson and Heather Bacon Foreword by Frank Cook MP J Jessica Kingsley Publishers London and Philadelphia All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any material form (including photocopying or storing it in any medium by electronic means and whether or not transiently or incidentally to some other use of this publication) without the written permission of the copyright owner except in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 or under the terms of a licence issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London, England W1T 4LP. Applications for the copyright owner’s written permission to reproduce any part of this publication should be addressed to the publisher. Warning: The doing of an unauthorised act in relation to a copyright work may result in both a civil claim for damages and criminal prosecution. The right of the contributors to be identified as authors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published in the United Kingdom in 2001 by Jessica Kingsley Publishers 116 Pentonville Road London N1 9JB, UK and 400 Market Street, Suite 400 Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA www.jkp.com Copyright © Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2001 Second impression 2003 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data A CIP catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN-13: 978 1 84310 147 5 ISBN -10: 1 84310 147 5 ISBN pdf eBook: 1 84642 175 6 Printed and Bound in Great Britain by Athenaeum Press, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear Contents Acknowledgements 8 Foreword Frank Cook MP 9 Introduction Sue Richardson, independent psychotherapist and trainer, and Heather Bacon, clinical psychologist NHS 11 1 Unspeakable truths: Child sexual abuse and the media Tim Tate, journalist 2 Piecing the fragments together Sue Richardson and Heather Bacon 3 Attachment, trauma and child