Outcry Response

What Educators Need to Know about Sexual Abuse

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

AvKathleen Davis

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Outcry Response is a book about sexual abuse for educators and administrators of all private and public learning institutions, organizations, and nontraditional settings. How to listen, respond, report, and recognize the often-disturbing signs of sexual abuse are noted for the purpose of building confidence as a mandated reporter. Survivors need responses of compassion, support, empathy, and recognition for their courage since the sexual assault was not their fault. Many survivors, past offenders, educators, and related agency personnel have assisted in describing the aftermath of sexual abuse and how educators can help. Compassion fatigue and exhaustion can lead a listener to inadvertently react with shock, shaming, repulsion, or silence. The solution is self-care with definitions and options provided in Outcry Response Trauma informed research and practices have made mandatory reporting, open communication, and safer campuses much more manageable. This wonderful book provides a variety of examples of trauma informed responses within educationally based scenarios of sexual abuse. The Department of Education websites for all fifty states and community programs enumerated within Outcry Response provide our educators and administrators with numerous resources about sexual abuse to use in their primary role of compassionately educating students of all ages.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-06-15
Mått154 x 219 x 11 mm
Vikt213 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor120
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781475858303

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Kathleen Davis has written a powerful, practical manual for educators in the recognition, prevention, and treatment of sexual abuse. She adroitly identifies sexual abuse as its own pandemic and provides clinical references to bolster her position. As a licensed medical professional with first-hand experience of her own abuse, Ms. Davis integrates the needs of both abuse victims and the professionals who care for them in her work. Backed by empirical data and evidence-based techniques, Ms. Davis' work accomplishes three landmark objectives: She empowers her readers to turn the tide on the potentially lethal and often legally ignored violence of sexually abusive conduct. She humanizes the devastating effects of silence and ignorance on the victims. And she provides educators and professional helpers with the tools to heal the secondary damage of sexual abuse, otherwise known as compassion fatigue.This is the leading edge of a new movement in education, psychology, and holistic trauma-focused treatment.