Books
Latest Publication
Working with Survivors of Sibling Sexual Abuse
An authoritative guide which addresses the taboo subject of sibling sexual abuse and includes insights to improve therapeutic understanding and practice. This book is essential reading for anyone involved in supporting or treating individuals or families impacted by sibling sexual abuse and all those working with adult survivors.
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​"In this important new book, Christiane Sanderson lifts the lid on sibling sexual abuse, providing an original, practical, and insightful guide to therapeutic understandings and practices in this area" - Mick Cooper, Professor of Counselling Psychology, University of Roehampton
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Christiane Sanderson has been interviewed on the topic of sibling sexual abuse in relation to this new book which you can listen to by clicking below
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Other Publications
Counselling Skills for Working with Shame
A hands-on, skills-based, highly practical guide of how to work with shame. The focus is on increasing awareness of the crippling nature of shame and how to help clients to reduce chronic shame, build shame resilience and restore authentic pride.
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​"This book is a must-have for all professionals and anyone who has ever felt shamed." - Linda Dominguez, Director of One in Four
Counselling Skills for Working with Trauma
A practical guide to counselling survivors of child abuse, neglect, rape, sexual violence, sexual trafficking, religious sexual abuse, and domestic abuse. Written in an accessible style, this book provides a comprehensive introduction to complex trauma and practical advice on how to create a safe environment in which survivors can learn the skills to restore control over trauma symptoms and develop emotional regulation skills to aid healing and recovery.
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"This book is fabulous... the absolute best I have ever read on the trauma associated with sex abuse." - Thomas Doyle, J.C.D., C.A.D.C, a Canon lawyer and outspoken advocate for clergy-abuse victims, USA
Counselling Survivors of Interpersonal Trauma
This book aims to identify the nature, dynamics, impact, and long-term effects of interpersonal trauma such as child abuse, domestic abuse, elder abuse, sexual exploitation, human trafficking and rape, institutional abuse, as well as sexual abuse by therapists. Through the use of clinical examples to highlight the unique features of each type of interpersonal trauma to illustrate how to how to create a secure therapeutic base to work most effectively with survivors of such trauma.
"I would recommend it as a must read for a broad range of professionals and others working with survivors of abuse." - Child Abuse Review
Counselling Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse: 3rd Edition
The third edition of this classic highly recommended book combines a wealth of knowledge, theory, and clinical experience with practical strategies that can be employed to best effect when working with adult survivors of child sexual abuse.
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"This is an expanded and revised third edition of a well-respected text, and I cannot imagine there is a more comprehensive, account of the impact of sexual abuse on the adult survivors." - Mental Health Today
Counselling Adult Survivors of Domestic Abuse
This book explores how practitioners can facilitate recovery from domestic abuse within a secure , supportive therapeutic relationship to rebuild relational worth and trust. It examines the range of therapeutic techniques that underpin complex post traumatic stress reactions associated with domestic abuse and how to reclaim control and restore eality to heal and recover.
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"This is a useful teaching and study aid, a reference book for agencies to keep to hand, as well as a 'secure base' for domestic abuse specialists to develop and refresh their skills, thinking and case management." - Therapy Today
The Seduction of Children
This book explores the myths and realities of child sexual abuse, how paedophiles gain access to children by grooming both caregivers and the child, the use of child abuse images and online sexual abuse. It identifies children’s typical sexual development with atypical sexual development, and the signs and symptoms of child sexual abuse to enable
parents, teachers and child protection practitioners to protect children.
The Seduction of Children has been translated and published in Croatia, Brazil and Turkey
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"Any child care professional would gain useful knowledge from this informative book." - Community Care
Written on Behalf of One in Four
The Warrior Within: 4th Edition
This self-help handbook supports the strength and courage of survivors of child sexual abuse, sexual violence and domestic abuse by providing resources and exercises to help them take ownership of their healing recovery and allow them to live a more authentic, fulfilling and meaningful life. It is an invaluable portable resource which supports survivors when most needed and to pace their recovery to regain trust in themselves.
Numbing the Pain
This informative, practical guide explores the underlying causes of addictions and their link to childhood physical and sexual abuse, and how to use trauma informed practice to restore survivors emotional self-regulation, It will be invaluable to all health practitioners, drug, alcohol and addiction workers, as well as counsellors, therapist and anyone working with or supporting someone with a history of child sexual abuse and prolonged addiction.
Responding to Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
An easy portable guide for families, friends and health care professionals including GP’s to understand the impact and long term effects of child sexual abuse and how best to support survivors to recover and heal from their abuse. It offers practical advice, guidance and key practice points from how to manage disclosure, identify vulnerabilities, sign posting to specialist care pathways and best practice when working with survivors.
The Spirit Within
This book is about compassion and healing in providing a unique opportunity to survivors, religious institutions and faith communities to gain a deeper understanding of religious sexual abuse. The focus is on enabling survivors to heal and recover from their abuse experiences.
We Are Still Here: What Counsellors and Therapists Can Learn from the Lived Experiences of Child Sexual Abuse Survivors
This book provides an opportunity to bear witness to the lived experience of survivors of CSA in their own voice and as experts in their experiences. Too often survivors are silenced and deprived of a voice in order to keep the secret due to shame, being unable to speak the unspeakable, fear of being stigmatised, fear of not being believed or blamed, or fear of perception of others. Giving survivors a voice, enabling them to speak out about their unique lived experience, the impact of CSA, and the long-term effects that still resonate in the present. While there are many commonalities in these narratives each experience is unique to each survivor.
In reading the narratives practitioners will be able to fully hear survivors in their own words, and recognise that they are the experts in their lived experience rather than approximations or theory led case studies. This will enable them to bear witness without pre-judged assumptions and allow them to validate the survivor's experience. It is hoped that in reading the narratives it humanises the individual survivors experiences, challenge stereotypes and reduces power imbalance in being viewed through the lens of professionals and practitioners.