Creative Group Therapy for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse - Paperback

by Bonnie Meekums (Author)

Bonnie Meekums presents creative group work strategies and techniques for professionals working with women who have experienced child sexual abuse. The practical strategies have been developed from an understanding of the complex process of recovery, and are informed by the voices of women who have been abused in childhood themselves.

The book is divided into two parts. The first looks at the theoretical issues, exploring the nature of abuse and patterns of recovery and also considers the debate about false memory syndrome'. The second part of the book presents practical group strategies, detailing a full sequence of creative exercises for the sessions. The author outlines how to set up the group, how to establish the group and how to manage group endings. The material in the book has been successfully trialled in a variety of professional settings, including a specialist multi-modal arts therapy program with a group of fourteen women.

Creative Group Therapy for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse will enable professionals and students to understand and support women through the difficult process of recovery from childhood sexual abuse.

Author Biography

Bonnie Meekums is a senior registered dance movement therapist and an accredited humanistic psychotherapist, registered with the UK Council for Psychotherapy. She is currently lecturing in counselling for the University of Leeds and working as a freelance therapist, trainer and consultant.

She sits on the general board of The Arts in Psychotherapy and holds office within the Association for Dance Movement Therapy on the Membership Registration Committee. Her previous posts have included dance therapist with East Leeds Family Service Unit and external examiner in dance movement therapy for the University of Hertfordshire.