A Jungian, Depth and Liberation Psychology Perspective. Autumn, 2024 This text describes how child victims of sexual violence may manifest symptoms that are named psychosis or spirit possession, depending upon the worldview of the practitioner interpreting the symptoms. But these symptoms and behaviours often represent normal responses...
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Intimate Partner Violence and Sleep: An Overview of Sleep Disturbances and Interventions Reference work entry | First Online: 13 October 2021 pp 3149–3173 Abstract This chapter focuses on intimate partner violence (IPV) and sleep disturbances. A comprehensive understanding of sleep disturbances in IPV survivors has been somewhat elusive and...
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Intimate Partner Violence and Sleep: An Overview of Sleep Disturbances and Interventions Living reference work entry |First Online: 26 June 2019 pp 1–25 Abstract This chapter focuses on intimate partner violence (IPV) and sleep disturbances. A comprehensive understanding of sleep disturbances in IPV survivors has been somewhat elusive and...
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It’s My Party, I’ll Cry If I Want To: Interpreting Narratives of Sexual Abuse in Childhood Chapter - pp 151–177 First Online: 05 July 2017 Abstract This chapter is based on narrative research with ten women survivors of child sexual abuse. It explores narrativity as a coping strategy and...
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Presentation and care of a family with Huntington disease in a resource-limited community Research article Published: 12 April 2017 Volume 4, article number 4, (2017) Abstract Background In high-income countries patients with Huntington disease (HD) typically present to healthcare providers after developing involuntary movements, or for pre-symptomatic genetic testing if at familial risk. A...
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Culturally Intelligent Practice for Caribbean and International Contexts About this book Presenting real-life case studies of child sexual abuse in the Caribbean as a basis for discussing interventions and models of practice that are relevant for a wide range of cultural and social settings, this multi-disciplinary text...
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About this book This book sets out an integrated systems model which utilizes a public health approach and 'whole of society' philosophy for preventing and responding to child sexual abuse. It guides those engaged in policy, practice and planning concerning gender based violence and child abuse...
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Chapter 6. pp 94–112 Abstract Parental abandonment of children cannot be held as a causal factor of child sexual abuse (CSA). However, in Grenada as in the rest of the Caribbean, where children from impoverished families are often abandoned by one or both parents for a variety...
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Chapter 10. pp 211–238 Abstract This chapter draws from narrative research conducted as part of a larger UNICEF commissioned study of child sexual abuse (CSA) (see Chapter 9 and also, Jones and Trotman Jemmott, 2009). Feminist scholars have reconceptualised the narrative as an epistemological and ontological concept...
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Chapter 11 - pp 239–262 Abstract There are few issues more relevant to today’s society, both in the Caribbean and elsewhere, than those relating to child sexual victimisation and its effect on individuals, families and communities. In response to this major public health and social problem, the...
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