When Survivors Give Birth: Understanding and Healing the Effects of Early Sexual Abuse on Childbearing Women

About this book

When Survivors Give Birth is written for a mixed audience of maternity care professionals and para-professionals mental health therapists and counselors and women survivors and their families. The authors expertly and compassionately address the unusual and distressing challenges that arise for abuse survivors during the childbirth experience. The first section informs the reader of the impact of early sexual abuse on children adults and on all aspects of childbearing. The second section teaches skills in communication self-help skills counseling and psychotherapy techniques. The third covers clinical challenges and solutions for doctors nurses midwives doulas and others. Case histories throughout the book clarify and apply the content.