Martina Higgins, John Swain

Disability and Child Sexual Abuse: Lessons from Survivors' Narratives for Effective Protection, Prevention and Treatment

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Disability and Child Sexual Abuse examines the ways in which society marginalises, institutionalises and places disabled children in situations of unacceptable risk, and how - as evidenced in the survivors' narratives - patterns of service delivery can contribute to the problem.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 150mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781843105633
• ISBN-10: 1843105632
• Artikelnr.: 26561227

Autorenporträt

Martina Higgins is a disabled parent of a disabled child. She has previously worked as a social work practitioner and manager, predominantly in the field of child protection. John Swain is Professor of Disability and Inclusion at Northumbria University, and has worked in Disability Studies for over 25 years. He is Executive Editor of the Disability and Society Journal, and has written approximately 70 publications, including From a Different Viewpoint: The Lives and Experiences of Visually Impaired People, with Sally French, published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. 1. Seven Disabled People with Telling Stories. 2. Narrative
and Enabling Stories of Child Abuse. 3. An Abusive Society? 4. The Double
Whammy Effect. 5. Expressions and Survival of Pain. 6. Organizational
Abuse. 7. Who Abuses and Why? 8. Collective Identities. 9. Narratives of
the Narrative. 10. Conclusion: towards a Non-Abusive Society. References.
Index