| Description |
xv, 240 pages ; 22 cm |
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Part I. CHANGING ATTITUDES: SEXUAL ASSAULT AND SOCIETY -- 1. Uniting all women : A historical look at attitudes to rape / Moira Carmody -- 2. An exotic phenomenon? Incest and child rape / Jan Breckenridge -- 3. A climate of change : Police responses to rape / Christine Nixon -- 4. Placed to play a valuable role : Doctors and sexual violence / Jenny Barry -- 5. An unreliable witness? Legal views of the sexual assault complainant / Megan Latham -- Part II. MEETING CHALLENGES: GUIDELINES FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT WORKERS -- 6. Other ways of understanding : Training sexual assault workers / Lesley Laing -- 7. Protection and prevention : An integral approach to child sexual assault / Carolyn Quinn -- 8. Dealing with mother-blame : Workers' responses to incest and child sexual abuse / Jan Breckenridge and Rosemary Berree -- 9. Expert on her own story : Working with women's experiences of incest / Chris Burke -- 10. The power of therapy : Working with children who have been sexually abused / Roberta Freedman and Cathy Want -- 11 Victim to survivor : Counselling for recovery from rape / Julie Blyth and Claire Vernon -- |
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Part III. VANQUISHING SHAME : THE ORGANISATION OF SUPPORT GROUPS -- 12. Meeting others : Groupwork for children who have been sexually abused / Judith Case -- 13. Breaking the silence: Support groups for adult incest survivors / Dorothy Cora -- 14. Your soul on the floor : A women's rape support group / Members of the North Shore Women's Group with Moira Carmody and Julie Blyth -- Part IV. BREAKING NEW GROUND : ADDRESSING SPECIFIC NEEDS -- 15. Starting from scratch : Sexual assault services in rural areas / Kate Baxter -- 16. Overlapping issues : Sexual abuse/drug and alcohol abuse / Toni Stephens -- 17. ̀They throw the rule book away' : Sexual assault in Aboriginal communities / Pam Greer with Jan Breckenridge --18. Monocultural to multicultural : Issues of service equity for immigrants / Pamela Garrett -- 19. Vulnerability and denial : Sexual assault of people with dissabilities / Moira Carmody and Joan Bratel |
| Summary |
Papers discuss practice, policy and research related to sexual violence in Australia; includes directory of services; paper by Pam Greer and Jan Breckenridge annotated separately |
| Analysis |
Child sexual abuse - Australia |
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Incest - Australia |
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Rape - Australia |
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Sex Crimes - Australia |
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Victims of Crime - Services for - Australia |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographic references and index |
| Subject |
Child sexual abuse -- Australia -- Public opinion.
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Child sexual abuse -- Australia.
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Public opinion -- Australia.
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Rape -- Australia -- Public opinion.
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Rape -- Australia.
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Sex crimes -- Australia.
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Victims of crimes -- Services for -- Australia -- Public opinion.
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Victims of crimes -- Services for -- Australia.
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| Author |
Breckenridge, Jan.
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Carmody, Moira, 1953-
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| LC no. |
92239917 |
| ISBN |
1863732020 |
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