Resources
Books & Videos
A selection of books and videos recommended to support both survivors and their supporters on the journey to healing.
Note: Only Gloria Masters’ books are distributed directly by Handing the Shame Back. All other links will take you to the respective author’s website or store for more information.
Keeping Kids Safe: A Roadmap for Parents, Teachers & Others | Gloria Masters
Did you know that children are at risk of sexual abuse, now more than ever? While your children are ‘playing on their laptops’ online grooming could be occurring? Would some tips on how to protect them be useful?
Sexual abuse and grooming of children across the world are both frightening realities, and ways to manage this are desperately needed.
This roadmap is for the parents, teachers, grandparents, and front-line staff everywhere. Resources are instrumental in combatting these predators, and children need practical tools to use.
Flightpath to Healing - A Guide for Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) Survivors | Gloria Masters
To all Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) Survivors out there, this book is for you.
Are you seeking support while navigating your way to recovery? Are you hoping for insight on reclaiming the life you should have had? Do you want the freedom to finally shine your light in the world?
Look no further, this step by step guide includes excerpts, teachings and exercises you can try, to start rebuilding your way back to yourself. Beginning with where you are it gently leads you to a more peaceful place of healing.
On Angels’ Wings: My Flight From Trauma To Grace | Gloria Masters
This extraordinary powerful story of Gloria’s journey from darkness into light is one of hope, resilience and the unrelenting power of the human spirit to survive.
It’s June 1960 and in middle-class suburban New Zealand, a child was born into sex slavery. For the first sixteen years of her life, Gloria suffered horrendous sexual, physical and psychological abuse at the hands of her father, with no one to protect her. From the underworld of her father’s paedophile ring to the groups he trafficked her to, she found an inner strength and a light that shone so brightly, her mind was the one thing that could not be destroyed.
Transforming Trauma - A Guide to Understanding and Treating Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse | Anna C. Salter
Practitioners helping adult survivors of child sexual abuse need to be aware of the thought processes of offenders. The premise of Anna Salter′s major book is that those who do not recognize an internalized perpetrator when they hear one will often be frustrated by the tenacity of the survivor′s self blame.
Primarily oriented towards treating adult survivors, this invaluable book will also be useful for treating sex offenders.
The Courage to Heal - A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse | Ellen Bass and Laura Davis
Practitioners helping adult survivors of child sexual abuse need to be aware of the thought processes of offenders. The premise of Anna Salter′s major book is that those who do not recognize an internalized perpetrator when they hear one will often be frustrated by the tenacity of the survivor′s self blame.
Primarily oriented towards treating adult survivors, this invaluable book will also be useful for treating sex offenders.
Breaking Free - Help for survivors of child sexual abuse | Kay Toon and Carolyn Ainscough
As a survivor of sexual abuse in childhood, you may find that its effects continue to haunt you – bringing guilt and shame, perhaps depression and anxiety, eating disorders, troubled relationships and sexual difficulties. But although you can’t alter the past, you can change the present and the future.
This book draws on their nationally recognized and pioneering work as clinical psychologists giving a voice to the Survivors of child sexual abuse. It uses their courage and experiences to help other survivors face their past and take steps towards a better future.
Resource Books for Adults - A selection of books designed for CSA Survivors
Provided by Abuse Hurts Charity in Ontario, Canada.
The book list in this category was compiled by Natalia Tukhareli MLIS, PhD, the Founder and Executive Director of the Read to Connect organization.