Abuse In Context: the Conceptual Framework -- Abuse: The Trauma Model -- The Social Context of the Recognition of Abuse Trauma -- Abuse, Trauma, and Memory -- Distinguishing Recollection from Recovery -- Family: Beyond the Trauma Model -- The Consequences of Child Abuse: Beyond PTSD -- Child Abuse in Family Context -- Divergent Groups of "Adult Survivors" -- Alone: Growing Up in an Ineffective Family -- An Interpersonal Context of Silent Complicity -- Found in the Mall: A New Way of Living -- "Maybe That's My Family": Longing and Denial -- Moving On -- Undeserving: The Enduring Family Legacy -- Family and Identity: The Entanglement of Attachment and Separation -- The Core Issue: To Be Cherished -- Unprepared: The Legacy of an Ineffective Family Background -- Beyond Survivorship: A Broader Perspective -- Inadequate Transmission of Essential Living Skills -- Two Related Pathways to Impaired Adjustment -- Why Trauma-Focused Treatment is Inappropriate for Survivors of Prolonged Child Abuse -- Impact: Intersecting Varieties of Abuse and Deficient Family Context -- Beyond Sexual Abuse -- Varieties of Abuse: Divergent and Convergent Effects -- Clinical Implications -- Society: Beyond Family Context -- Levels of Analysis -- Individual Problems in Adjustment -- Traumatic Antecedants of Current Problems -- Abuse Trauma in Family Context -- Analysis at the Level of Social Context -- Society: Holding Ourselves Accountable -- Treatment in Context: Foundations of the Therapeutic Model -- Collaboration: Forming a Therapeutic Alliance
Summary
First Published in 2000
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-255) and indexes
