Creative Responses to Child Sexual
Abuse
Challenges and Dilemmas
Edited
by Sue Richardson & Heather Bacon
The editors have done a
splendid job in gathering together from different contributors a
collection of articles and papers which are often distressing to read.
Abuse goes on in secret, but
in this book the spotlight is turned on even the darkest corners. We know
from recent media attention how angry people can get if they believe there
is a paedophile, a stranger, living in their community. But, at the same
time, sexual abuse of a child within the family is so
abhorrent that we try to deny this happens, and children are often
disbelieved.
This books confronts the
reality of abuse. The Cleveland Child Abuse crisis in the UK in1987 is
re-assessed, and the dilemma for child protection workers, who often find
themselves on the receiving end of hate and abuse is analysed. Taking a
child away from a home is often condemned, and paradoxically, so is
leaving a child in danger to suffer further abuse.
Creative Responses to Child
Sexual Abuse is documented throughout with case
material and informed by the experiences of survivors themselves. Although
this book is primarily for professionals working with children, it will
make shocking but insightful reading for anyone who wants to be more
informed about the way our children are helped - on not - by society
today.
© Jill
Curtis 2002
 Jessica Kingsley
Publishers
paperback
£16.95 $26.95 ISBN
1853028843
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