Abuse category: 3108 books

For many readers, date violence and domestic abuse is something that happens to other people. Not to your daughter! Not to you!In fact, domestic violence and its cycle of violence is many a family's dirty little secret. Yet, you can learn to recognize the early signs and rescue your daughter...

See Newer/Lower-priced Edition (slightly renamed): Why Don't They Just Quit? Hope for Families Struggling with Addiction. Updated edition contains 6 new chapters: Heroin, Shame & Stigma, Harm Reduction, Marijuana and more. Achieve the peace of mind that comes from knowing what works,...

She stayed in an empty, narcissistic relationship five years too long, thinking she was committed to not leaving. She was afraid of feeling like a failure in the marriage, to her children, and to herself if she didn’t at least try to fight for its resolution. Eventually, the fight wasn’t worth...

Completed hours before Maurice Ward’s shocking murder, this remarkable book is the first autobiography of an Irish criminal. Recording his incarceration in Upton Industrial School, Ward recalls how the violence he suffered at the hands of the religious altered his personality and turned him to crime.  Refreshingly...

Motivational Interviewing has becoming increasingly widespread among counselors and therapists, but no book to date has focused exclusively on applying Motivational Interviewing to domestic and partner violence. Written by established authorities in the field, the chapters in this volume represent...

Emma Jean Cooper, nicknamed "Emma Jean Two" by her father, was born in 1966, in the small town of Crooked River, Arkansas, where poverty and prejudice were rampant. Emma Jean grew up with plenty of both, to the extent that her father was active in the Ku Klux Klan and exposed his daughter...

What can be more difficult than breaking a drug habit? Simple: stayingclean. Melinda Ferguson follows the powerful drug memoir Smacked with this brutally honest account of her post-addiction addictions - from self-help fads, to Oprah, to 12 step meetings, to men, to Facebook. How does an addict deal...

The Systematic Mistreatment of Children in the Foster Care System tells the stories of 10 children in the foster care system from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds and the efforts by advocates to find them permanent places to live, appropriate schooling, and other essentials they need to survive....

A new wave of abuse is happening behind the doors of family homes but it's one that many are too ashamed to discuss. Domestic violence used to mean an angry man beating a helpless female partner and child. But last year in the region of 12,000 parents called ParentLine to report violent children landing...

Gain a better understanding of the behaviors of sex offenders to create effective interventions! Identifying and Treating Sex Offenders: Current Approaches, Research, and Techniques brings you up-to-date on the latest significant issues and state-of-the-art tools involved in the evaluation...

This is Marie Simas' bestselling first release-- the #1 humor essay collection on Amazon UK for over 6 weeks in a row. The intensity of Marie Simas's father's reactions to her head-strong behavior is so often disturbing, it borders on horrific abuse. Yet, she is irrepressible. Read it. Get...

A compelling story of seven children who suffered immensely in the paternal home. From birth until they moved away, abuse leaped endlessly in their innocent lives. The girls endured even more painful experiences caused by their professed father. The story depicts vivid events endured over years of...

We cannot address bullying in schools, in our community and the world without first addressing the role of parents play and the dominant emotional state of being children are often exposed to in their home (consciously or unconsciously).The question for all parents is; what is your child becoming...

Are you ready to let go of trauma, shame, guilt, abuse, PTSD, intrusive memories, or anything that keeps you staked to the past? Soul Recovery Technique: Healing Trauma at Its Core provides easy-to-follow instructions to help you reclaim yourself and release those ties that bind you. Step out of the...