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Leaving Darkness Behind: Recovery From Childhood Sexual Abuse Spiral-Bound |

Elizabeth M. Altmaier

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This book helps survivors find the road to recovery and learn healthy practices that will lead to thriving, not just surviving.

This book helps survivors find the road to recovery and learn healthy practices that will lead to thriving, not just surviving.

Survivors of childhood sexual abuse can begin a recovery journey informed by accurate understandings, not myths, and empowered by processes that help them thrive. Written for men and women by an author who is herself a survivor, this guide tells the truth about what complex trauma means for your physical and mental health. Readers will learn how to build key recovery processes into their lives, including grieving, meaning-making, forging healthy connections with others, and finding hope. This guidance is scientifically-based, in findings from positive psychology.
 
With self-assessments, journaling prompts, and suggested action steps to help you leave your darkness behind, this book is your essential interactive guide through the recovery journey. References and an extensive index are also included.
Publisher: American Psychological Association
Original Binding: Trade Paperback
Pages: 272 pages
ISBN-10: 143383393X
Item Weight: 1.06 lbs
Dimensions: 5.5 x 1.12 x 8.5 inches
Dr. Betsy Altmaier has produced an exceptional and sensitive book specifically for survivors of child sexual abuse. She offers information about her own abuse experience, coupled with sound psychological information about what it takes to leave the darkness of sexual abuse behind and to live life forward. Her information is hopeful and encourages the view of recovery as a process that requires perseverance over time. Her suggested readings and exercises are “on point” and support the recovery process in a very practical way. Highly recommended!
-CHRISTINE A. COURTOIS, PHD, ABPP, LICENSED PSYCHOLOGIST AND AUTHOR OF HEALING THE INCEST WOUND: ADULT SURVIVORS IN THERAPY AND IT’S NOT YOU, IT’S WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU: COMPLEX TRAUMA AND TREATMENT
Elizabeth M. Altmaier, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of Counseling Psychology and Community and Behavioral Health at the University of Iowa. Her research focuses on issues of trauma in the experiences of interpersonal offenses, and in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer and chronic pain. Her studies also highlight positive processes, such as forgiveness, posttraumatic growth, and meaning-making. She has published on childhood sexual abuse within a faith context, and has authored academic books on meaning-making in trauma. Post-retirement, she is writing, volunteering, and advocating for mental and physical health needs for under-resourced persons. She lives in Iowa City.