Outcry Response is a unique resource book about sexual abuse for educators and administrators of all private and public learning institutions, organizations, and nontraditional settings. How to listen, respond, report, and recognize the signs of sexual abuse are noted for the purpose of building confidence as mandated reporters. Survivors need responses of compassion, support, and recognition for their courage since the sexual assault was not their fault. Many survivors, past offenders, educators, and related agency personnel have assisted in describing the aftermath of sexual abuse and how educators and administrators can help. Compassion fatigue and exhaustion can lead a listener whether in academics or the public to inadvertently react with shock, shaming, repulsion, or silence. Awareness, self-care, and resources are effective tools to promote healthy responses.
Trauma informed research and practices have made mandatory reporting, open communication, and safer campuses much more manageable. This guidebook provides numerous examples of responses to sexual abuse within educationally based scenarios. The Department of Education websites from all fifty states and community programs enumerated within Outcry Response provide numerous resources for our educators and administrators to assist as first responders to Outcries from students of all ages.
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Rowman & Littlefield
link rowman.com/ISBN/9781475858303/Outcry-Response-What-Educators-Need-to-Know-about-Sexual-Abuse
or at Amazon
For bulk purchases contact Megan [email protected]
Reviews
Kathleen Davis has written a powerful, practical manual for educators in the recognition, prevention, and treatment of sexual abuse. She adroitly identifies sexual abuse as its own pandemic and provides clinical references to bolster her position. As a licensed medical professional with first-hand experience of her own abuse, Ms. Davis integrates the needs of both abuse victims and the professionals who care for them in her work. Backed by empirical data and evidence-based techniques, Ms. Davis' work accomplishes three landmark objectives: She empowers her readers to turn the tide on the potentially lethal and often legally ignored violence of sexually abusive conduct. She humanizes the devastating effects of silence and ignorance on the victims. And she provides educators and professional helpers with the tools to heal the secondary damage of sexual abuse, otherwise known as compassion fatigue.
This is the leading edge of a new movement in education, psychology, and holistic trauma-focused treatment.
— Marcia-Elizabeth Thompson, DACM, LAC, Doctor of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine
Congratulations to Kathleen Davis for encapsulating this valuable resource for teachers, administrators and anyone who might confront the “Outcry Response” to sexual abuse. Her conversational style engages the reader to explore a myriad of situations that might be encountered. She uses simple language and a trauma focused approach to facilitate the reader’s understanding of both survivors and offenders. With numerous examples she openly describes scenarios that might be experienced during the disclosure process. Additionally, she further encourages situation specific systemic change to provide a safe and supportive learning environment. This book is an excellent resource for any teacher’s bookshelf! I wish it had been available when I was a young teacher, and early in my career as a therapist!
— Gayle A. McAdoo, MA, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Professional Counselor, Chemical Dependency Counselor
Kathleen Davis has written a powerful, practical manual for educators in the recognition, prevention, and treatment of sexual abuse. She adroitly identifies sexual abuse as its own pandemic and provides clinical references to bolster her position. As a licensed medical professional with first-hand experience of her own abuse, Ms. Davis integrates the needs of both abuse victims and the professionals who care for them in her work. Backed by empirical data and evidence-based techniques, Ms. Davis' work accomplishes three landmark objectives: She empowers her readers to turn the tide on the potentially lethal and often legally ignored violence of sexually abusive conduct. She humanizes the devastating effects of silence and ignorance on the victims. And she provides educators and professional helpers with the tools to heal the secondary damage of sexual abuse, otherwise known as compassion fatigue.
This is the leading edge of a new movement in education, psychology, and holistic trauma-focused treatment.
— Marcia-Elizabeth Thompson, DACM, LAC, Doctor of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine
Congratulations to Kathleen Davis for encapsulating this valuable resource for teachers, administrators and anyone who might confront the “Outcry Response” to sexual abuse. Her conversational style engages the reader to explore a myriad of situations that might be encountered. She uses simple language and a trauma focused approach to facilitate the reader’s understanding of both survivors and offenders. With numerous examples she openly describes scenarios that might be experienced during the disclosure process. Additionally, she further encourages situation specific systemic change to provide a safe and supportive learning environment. This book is an excellent resource for any teacher’s bookshelf! I wish it had been available when I was a young teacher, and early in my career as a therapist!
— Gayle A. McAdoo, MA, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Professional Counselor, Chemical Dependency Counselor
