Recommended Reading for Parents & Guardians:
- Predators and Child Molesters: What Every Parent Needs to
Know to Keep Kids Safe – by Robin Sax - When Your Child Has Been Molested: A Parent’s Guide to Healing
And Recovery – by Kathryn B. Hagans and Joyce Case - Overcoming Sexual Terrorism: How to Protect Your Children
from Sexual Predators – by Jake Goldenflame
Seducers Among Our Children: A predators maneuvers and tricks from a major crime investigator – by Patrick Crough - Silent No More: Victim #1 by Jerry Sandusky – by Aaron Fisher
- Helping Your Child Recover from Sexual Abuse: by Caren Adams and Jennifer Fay
Body Safety Education: A Parents guide to protecting kids from sexual abuse – by Jayneen Sanders - Listening & Talking to Your Sexually Abused Child: By Dr. Lynn Daugherty
- Repair For Kids: By Margie McKinnon
- When Your Child discloses Sexual Abuse: By Chris Schopen
- Trauma: By Robert D. Edlema
Recommended Reading for Young Victims of Sexual Abuse:
- Something Happened and I’m Scared to Tell: A Book for Young
Victims of Abuse – by Patricia Kehoe
(Recommended for children ages 3-8 years old) - Kids Helping Kids Break the Silence of Sexual Abuse: by Linda Lee Foltz (Recommended for children age 7 years and up)
- Healing Days: A Guide for kids who have experienced trauma: by Susan Farber Straus, Phd. (Recommended for children age 5 years and up)
- A Terrible Thing Happened: By Margaret M. Holmes
(Recommended for children age 3 years and up) - Finding Sunshine After The Storm: A workbook for children healing from sexual abuse: By Sharon A. McGee (Recommended for children age 5 years and up)
Recommended Reading for Teenage Victims of Sexual Abuse:
- How Long Does It Hurt: A Guide to Recovering from Incest and Sexual Abuse for Teenagers, Their Friends, and Their Families: by Cynthia Mather (Recommended for children age 7 years and up)
- A Safe Place: A guide for Living Beyond Sexual Abuse – by Jan Morrison
Recommended Reading for Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse & their Loved Ones
- Miss America by Day: by Marilyn Van Derbur
- Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children – Six Steps to
Hope and Healing for Struggling Parents: by Allison Bottke - All That is Bitter And Sweet: by Ashley Judd
- Healing for Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse: by Bonnie J. Collins and Kathryn Marsh
- The Body Keeps the Score: by Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D.
- The Wounded Heart: Hope for Adult Victims of Childhood
Sexual Abuse: by Dr. Dan B. Allender - Predators and Child Molesters: What Every Parent Needs
to Know to Keep Kids Safe: by Robin Sax - Rising Above The Scars: Johnnetta McSwain
- What About Me ?: by Grant Cameron Download Book / Website
- Repossessing Your Inheritance: Dr. Sharon Apopa & The Late Caron Assan Available at Brown & Co, Heritage Bookstore or by emailing toapopa@yahoo.com
- Beauty For Ashes: by Joyce Meyer
- Do You Know Who You Are Sitting Next To?: by Rosita L. Davis
- Why me? Help for victims of child sexual abuse: by Dr. Lynn Daugherty
- When a Woman You Love Was Abused:
A Husband’s Guide to Helping Her Overcome Childhood Sexual Abuse: by Dawn Scott Jones - Words of Hope And Healing: by Children’s Advocacy Centers of Georgia
- Chosen – a memoir of stolen boyhood: by Stephen Mills
Recommended Reading for Doula’s, Midwives and Childbearing Women
- When Survivors Give Birth: Understanding and Healing Effects of Early Sexual Abuse on Childbearing Women: by Penny Simkin and Phyllis Klaus. See video
Recommended Website to Teach Children about Child Sexual Abuse Prevention:
- Orbit: Online computer game that takes a positive and practical approach to child sexual abuse prevention; an approach that is informed by evidence-based research. Click Here To Play
Recommended Reading for those who are suffering from the spill-over of child sexual abuse:
The SCARS of child sexual abuse are mostly on the inside and not on the outside and if untreated the long term affects can lead to alcohol &/or drug abuse, violence, teenage pregnancy, self injurious behaviors and eating disorders.
Eating Disorders:
- Letting Go of Ed: A Guide to Recovering from Your Eating Disorder: by Pippa Wilson
- Life Without Ed: by Jenni Shaefer
- Brain Over Binge: by Catherine Hansen
- Treatment Center – Milestones Program
Alcohol & Drug Abuse:
- The Recovery Formula: by Beth Burgess
- Freedom From Addiction: By David Simon
- Mindful Recovery: By Thomas Bien
Recommended Reading for Children
(Parental Involvement):
- My Body Belongs To Me: by Jill Starishevsky
See video : My Body Belongs To Me
(Recommended for children ages 3-5 years old) - Some Secrets Should Never Be Kept: by Jayneen (Jay) Sanders
Visit their website: www.somesecrets.info See video: book review
(Recommended for children ages 3-12 years old) - A Very Touching Book – For Little People And For Big People: by Jan Hindman (Recommended for children age 4 years and up)
- Those are MY Private Parts: by Diane Hansen
(Recommended for children age 4 years and up) - Don’t Be Scared To Tell: by Kathy Chatterton
(Recommended for children ages 3-8 years old ) - If You Touch, I’ll Tell: by Dr. Shamina Aubuchon
- My Body Is Private – A Mother-Child Conversation Introduces the Topic of Sexual Abuse and Ways to Keep One’s Body Private
– Juvenille, Child Molesting Prevention, Psychological Aspects
(Recommended for children ages 3-8 years old) - The Right Touch: A Read-Aloud Story to Help Prevent
Child Sexual Abuse: by Sandy Kleven and Jody Bergsma
(Recommended for children age 4 years and up) - Good Touch Bad Touch: Learning About Proper and Improper Touches: by Teresa Connor and Holly Thrailkill
(Recommended for children ages 3-10 years old) - It’s My Body: by Lory Freeman
(Recommended for children ages 3-8 years old) - The Trouble With Secrets: by Karen Johnsen
(Recommended for children ages 4- 10 years old) - Some Parts Are NOT For Sharing: by Julie K. Federico
(Recommended for children age 4 years and up) - Please Tell – A child’s story about sexual abuse: Written and Illustrated by Jessie (Recommended for children age 4 years and up)
- Your Body Belongs To You: Written by Cornelia Spelman
(Recommended for children age 4 years and up) - Fred The Fox Shouts “NO”: Written by Tatiana Y Kasil Mathews
(Recommended for children age 3 years and up) - I Said No: Written by Zack & Kimberly King
(Recommended for children age 3 years and up) - No Trespassing – This Is My Body: Written by Pattie Fitzgerald
(Recommended for children age 3 years and up) - A Secret Safe To Tell: by Naomi Hunter
(Recommended for children age 3 years and up) - U Touch I Tell: by Chi Hosseinion
(Recommended for children age 4 years and up) - Do You Have a Secret: by Jennifer Moore-Mallinos
(Recommended for children age 4 years and up) - When I Was Little Like You: by Jane Porett
(Recommended for children age 4 years and up) - Amazing You: By Gail Cravath Saltz
(Recommended for children age 3 years and up) - Sex Is A Funny Word: By Cory Silverberg & Fiona Smyth
(Recommended for children age 3 years and up)` - Miles Is The Boss Of His Own Body: By Samantha Kurtzman-Counter (Recommended for children age 3 years and up)`
- Good Pictures Bad Pictures: By Kristen A. Jenson
(Recommended for children age 5 years and up) - NO Means No!: By Janeen Saunders
(Recommended for children age 3 years and up) - God Made All of Me: By Justin & Lindsey Malcomb
(Recommended for children age 3 years and up) - My Body’s Mine:By Kayla J. W. Marnach
(Recommended for children age 3 years and up) - My Body! What I Say Goes!:By Jayneen Sanders
(Recommended for children age 4 years and up) - The TALK About Abuse Book:By Kevin McNeil
(Recommended for children age 5 years and up) - Body Safety With Mya:By E.Moore
(Recommended for children age 4 years and up) - Fawn’s Touching Tale:By Agnes Whol
(Recommended for children age 4 years and up) - When Your Kid Is Hurting:By Kevin Leman
(Recommended for children age 4 years and up) - Cory Helps Kids Cope With Sexual Abuse:By Liana Lowenstein
(Recommended for children age 4 years and up) - The Secret Keeper Girl:By Dannah Gresh
(Recommended for children age 4 years and up) - My Private Parts Are Private:By Robert D. Edelman
(Recommended for children age 4 years and up) - Its OK To Tell:By S.Bishop (Recommended for children age 4 years and up)
- Lets talk About Boundaries:By Jayneen Saunders
(Recommended for children age 4 years and up) - The Boys Body Book:By Kellie Dunham
(Recommended for children age 4 years and up) - That Uh-Oh Feeling:By Kathryn Cole
(Recommended for children age 4 years and up) - The Swim Suit Lesson: By John Holsten & Scott Freeman
(Recommended for children age 8 -13 years)
Substance Abuse Addictions:
- Busting the Myths About Addiction
- Understanding Addiction
- How to Talk to a Child About a Parent’s Addiction
- What to Do if Your Teen or Young Adult has a Problem with Drugs
- How to Talk To Your Kids About Substance Abuse guide
The Recovery Village
An organization dedicated to providing the best treatment possible to those struggling with substance abuse and co-occuring disorders in the U.S.