The Psychology of Sexual Victimization: A Handbook

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A scholarly handbook focusing on variables that assist in confronting and preventing the forms of sexual victimization, which include rape, child abductions, battering, sexual harassment, and incest. Resources include parent and teacher training, public education and awareness, and psychotherapeutic techniques for families and friends of victims as well as the victims themselves. All contributors to this handbook have been active in research, advocacy, and legislation in sexual victimization of children, adolescents, and adults. It will be of special interest to individuals who work in the area of sexual victimization: psychologists and psychiatrists, social workers, attorneys, policymakers, agency and shelter volunteers and professionals, clergy, and faculty and students in psychology, women's studies, law, medicine.

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Wider-ranging than its title suggests, this collection of articles will be helpful in undergraduate courses on gender and violence and for community advocacy. Its strong chapters on sexual harassment in schools and workplaces should be useful to policy committees, as well as to those who teach the subject.-Readings: A Journal of Reviews and Commentary in Mental Health
"Wider-ranging than its title suggests, this collection of articles will be helpful in undergraduate courses on gender and violence and for community advocacy. Its strong chapters on sexual harassment in schools and workplaces should be useful to policy committees, as well as to those who teach the subject."-Readings: A Journal of Reviews and Commentary in Mental Health

Author Bio

MICHELE ANTOINETTE PALUDI is the president of Paludi & Associates, consultants in sexual harassment.