Resources for Sexual Assault Survivors : Books
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I Want to Go Home: Reclaiming Power After Sexual Assault by ISBN: 0646832638Publication Date: 2021-02-01
Healing Sexual Trauma Workbook by ISBN: 9781684036509Publication Date: 2021-07-01
Know My Name: A Memoir by Call Number: HV6565.C2 M45 2019ISBN: 0735223726Publication Date: 2020-08-18
Trauma Survivors' Strategies for Healing by
Trauma Survivors' Strategies for Healing offers the latest, recovery-oriented strategies to manage symptoms and take your life back from trauma. The decision to begin working on your trauma is not an easy one, but it is an essential step on your journey into healing. In Trauma Survivors' Strategies for Healing, clinical psychologist Dr. Elena Welsh delivers an actionable workbook with new strategies to rebuild from trauma and start living the life you want to lead. Based on scientifically-backed therapeutic strategies, Dr. Welsh will teach you practical, proven effective skills for working through trauma and healing your mind, body, and spirit. The exercises in Trauma Survivors' Strategies for Healing have helped thousands of trauma survivors cope and find relief from trauma-related symptoms in daily life. Whether the source of your trauma was one experience or a series of ongoing events, with Trauma Survivors' Strategies for Healing you will: Understand trauma with an in-depth introduction that addresses the wide range of symptoms associated with trauma as well as physical symptoms and illnesses. Discover the root of your trauma with self-diagnostic quizzes and reflective assessments to help you identify personal triggers and the specific symptoms you are experiencing. Take your life back with actionable strategies that deepen your mind-body connection and incorporate wellness habits into your everyday life. Trauma Survivors' Strategies for Healing arms you with the tools you need to heal, thrive, and enjoy life beyond trauma.
ISBN: 1641521333Publication Date: 2018
Queering Sexual Violence: Radical Voices from Within the Anti-Violence Movement by
Often pushed to the margins, queer, transgender and gender non-conforming survivors have been organizing in anti-violence work since the birth of the movement. Queering Sexual Violence: Radical Voices from Within the Anti-Violence Movement locates them at the center of the anti-violence movement and creates a space for their voices to be heard. Moving beyond dominant narratives and the traditional "violence against women" framework, the book is multi-gendered, multi-racial and multi-layered. This thirty-seven piece collection disrupts the mainstream conversations about sexual violence and connects them to disability justice, sex worker rights, healing justice, racial justice, gender self-determination, queer & trans liberation and prison industrial complex abolition through reflections, personal narrative, and strategies for resistance and healing. Where systems, institutions, families, communities and partners have failed them, this collection lifts them up, honors a multitude of lived experiences and shares the radical work that is being done outside mainstream anti-violence and the non-profit industrial complex.
Call Number: HQ76.25 Q447 2016ISBN: 1626012733Publication Date: 2016
We Believe You: Survivors of Campus Sexual Assault Speak Out by
"Me too. It happened to me too." More than one in five women and 5 percent of men are sexually assaulted while at college. Some survivors are coming forward; others are not. In We Believe You, students from every kind of college and university--large and small, public and private, highly selective and less so--share experiences of trauma, healing, and everyday activism, representing a diversity of races, economic and family backgrounds, gender identities, immigration statuses, interests, capacities, and loves. Theirs is a bold, irrefutable sampling of voices and stories that should speak to all.
Call Number: LB2345.3.R37 C53 2016ISBN: 1627795332Publication Date: 2016
Trauma and Recovery by
In this groundbreaking book, a leading clinical psychiatrist redefines how we think about and treat victims of trauma. Trauma and Recovery is revered as the seminal text on understanding trauma survivors. By placing individual experience in a broader political frame, Harvard psychiatrist Judith Herman argues that psychological trauma is inseparable from its social and political context. Drawing on her own research on incest, as well as a vast literature on combat veterans and victims of political terror, she shows surprising parallels between private horrors like child abuse and public horrors like war. Hailed by the New York Times as "one of the most important psychiatry works to be published since Freud," Trauma and Recovery is essential reading for anyone who seeks to understand how we heal and are healed.
Call Number: RC552 P62 H47 1992ISBN: 0465061710Publication Date: 2015
The Rape Recovery Handbook by
A woman is raped in this country every two minutes; this guide provides an effective framework for victims to heal from the experience. If you are a survivor of sexual assault, you may be suffering from symptoms of depression, substance abuse, an eating disorder, panic and anxiety, or posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The Rape Recovery Handbook provides an effective framework in which you can heal. Healing begins by establishing a safety plan that includes how to use this book and what to expect from recovery. In this new book, which is the only step-by-step program that helps victims acknowledge and learn to manage the emotional pain caused by the trauma of sexual assault, trauma expert Aphrodite Matsakis gives you help for coping with the reality of this experience and dealing with the aftermath of conflicting and debilitating feelings.
Call Number: RC560 S44 M38 2003ISBN: 1572243376Publication Date: 2003
I Never Called It Rape by
The classic book that broke new ground by thoroughly reporting on the widespread problem of date and acquaintance rape has now been completely updated to include recent studies, issues, current events, and controversies.
Call Number: HV6561 W38 1988ISBN: 0060925728Publication Date: 1994
Need Help?
If you or someone you know needs help or counseling around sexual assault, please use any of the following resources:
- UW-Madison University Health Services at 608-265-5600
- UW-Madison Police Department at 608-264-2677
- Dane County Rape Crisis Center at 608-251-7272
- Domestic Abuse Intervention Services (DAIS) at 608-251-4445
- National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-4673