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Title: Trouble With Secrets by Karen Johnsen ISBN: 0-943990-22-X Publisher: Parenting Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1986 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 1 (1 review)
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Summary: There are better books on this topic
Comment: As a therapist who works with abused children, I have to say that I am sorry I bought this book and will not use it.
This book is about when children should keep secrets and when they should not. Part of its purpose is to help children protect themselves against sexual abuse, but this aim is not achieved. The author uses the "good touch, bad touch" concept, which experts such as Jan Hindman, author of "Just Before Dawn" strongly discourage. ("Just Before Dawn", by the way, is a great book on sexual abuse, but written for adults, more for therapists than laypeople.) It is not helpful to a child's normal development to label sexual touching as "bad touch". It is especially devastating to the sexual abuse victim who may have had a pleasurable bodily response to the abuse, which is not that uncommon. The "bad touch" concept will make this child feel guilty and bad and even more afraid to tell. It is much better to explain to the child that, except for the doctor, no adult is to touch the private parts of a child.
Another glaring mistake this book makes is that it advises a child to tell anyone who attempts to take their clothes off or touch them in an "uncomfortable way" to say, "No! I'll tell." Tellling a perpetrator "I'll tell" could end up getting the child killed. Of course, the child should tell, but not let the perpetrator know.
Two much better books on this subject for children are "My Body Is Private" and "Your Body Belongs to You".
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Title: Something Happened and I'm Scared to Tell: A Book for Young Victims of Abuse by Patricia Kehoe ISBN: 0943990289 Publisher: Parenting Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1987 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: My Body Is Private by Linda Walvoord Girard, Rodney Pate ISBN: 0807553190 Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company Pub. Date: 01 September, 1992 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: It's My Body by Lory Freeman ISBN: 0943990033 Publisher: Parenting Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1984 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: The Right Touch: A Read-Aloud Story to Help Prevent Child Sexual Abuse by Sandy Kleven, Jody Bergsma ISBN: 0935699104 Publisher: Illumination Arts Publishing Company List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: A Terrible Thing Happened - A story for children who have witnessed violence or trauma by Margaret M. Holmes, Sasha J. Mudlaff, Cary Pillo ISBN: 1557987017 Publisher: Magination Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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