Teens Dealing With Sexual Abuse Part 2: Books & Resources

I received an email from a young woman who had read Secrets Girls Keep.  She wrote me because she had been a victim of sexual abuse.  Secrets Girls Keep covers lots of issues girls deal with from friends, to boyfriends, to school, and even sexual abuse.  This young woman wanted to continue the discusssion about sexual abuse and how teen girls can heal from this.  In the first blog post, she offered her perspective and advice that helped her.  In this post, we have a list of book recommendations and other resources.

 Books and Websites that Might be Helpful
Some books I found helpful were:  Why me? By: Lynn Daugherty,  How Long Does It Hurt?  By Cynthia L. Mather, Shining Through By: Mindy B. Loiselle, It Happened To Me (Workbook) By: William Lee Carter, Healing Your Aloneness Workbook By: Margaret Paul and Erika Chopich, and

The Right To Innocence  By: Beverly Engel **The first 75 pages or so I didn’t particularly like I guess. The very beginning is more aimed towards adults looking back at childhood sexual abues, but that’s only the first few pages or so. THe rest of those 75 pages is what sexual abuse is and different types and just explaining it and such. After those pages I found the rest extremely helpful.
Also, take time to “research yourself.” By this I mean do research about what happened to you. For friends and family of survivors, they are affected too as “secondary survivors.”  You might want to try: http://www.pandys.org/articles/tipsforfriends.html   My friends found that particular one helpful.