Recommended Reading
8 Keys to Wholeness: Tools for
Hope-Filled Healing by Donna DeNomme
Accounts of Innocence: Sexual Abuse, Trauma and the Self by Joseph Davis
Assessing and Treating Trauma
and PTSD by Linda Schupp
Betrayal Trauma: The Logic of Forgetting Childhood Abuse by Jennifer Freyd
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and the Body in the Healing of Trauma
by Bessel Van der Kolk
The Broken Child by Marcia Cameron and Ira Steinman, M.D.
Child Sexual Abuse: New Theories and Research by D. Finkelhor
Coping with Trauma by Jon Allen
Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Sexual Abuse by Ellen Bas and Laura Davis
The Lasting Effects of Child Sexual Abuse by G. Wyatt and G. Powell
Moving On After Childhood Sexual Abuse by Jonathan Willows
The Right to Innocence: Healing the Trauma of Childhood Sexual Abuse
by Beverly Engel
The Sexual Healing Journey: A Guide for Survivors of Sexual Abuse by Wendy Maltz
Trauma and Recovery by Judith Herman
The Trauma Recovery Book: A Guide for Practitioners
by M. Mendelsohn and Judith Herman
Links
Highly trained psychiatrists, psychoanalysts and social workers based in Summit, NJ, offering effective solutions in the treatment of stress, depression, personality and anxiety disorders
National Center for Prosecution of Child Abuse
Central resource for training, expert legal assistance, court reform and information on
criminal child abuse investigations and prosecutions
Silent Lambs
News and information about child abuse within the Jehovah’s Witnesses community
Bishop Accountability
A library and archive of sexual abuse coverage of the Catholic Church
Speak Truth to Power
Massachusetts-based advocacy agency for victims of sexual abuse
National Survivor Advocates Coalition
Ohio-based advocacy agency for victims of sexual abuse
Survivors Network of Those Abused By Priests (SNAP)
International self-help organization that assists victims of clergy sexual abuse
Coalition Against Sexual Assault (CASA)
An organization that promotes compassionate and just treatment of sexual abuse victims.
Chapters in most states.
Catholic Whistle Blowers
Coalition of religious men and women who have exposed wrongdoing and sexual abuse
by members of the clergy
RAINN
The nation’s largest anti-sexual violence organization providing crisis centers throughout the country