Social Work and Sexual Trauma Casebook

<p>This volume offers a collection of ten case studies from clinical social workers who work in the field of sexual trauma, with the objective of challenging and informing social work practice with survivors and perpetrators of sexual trauma. These steps are meant to help the process of treatment by breaking down the experience of trauma to a set of steps and interventions aimed at resolving traumatic symptoms within a given time frame. Our text seeks to challenge the tendency towards reductionism inherent in the dominant social paradigm by encouraging the development of a phenomenological and interdisciplinary approach to understanding sexual trauma. In doing so, the examples of interventions presented in each case study reflect practice methods that honor the complexity of the human experience of sexual trauma, suffering, and recovery. </p> <p>Introduction: Using Case Studies of Sexual Trauma in the Classroom <i>Jaffe, Floersch, Longhofer, and Conti</i> 1. Thinking Critically About Sexual Trauma in the 21st Century <i>Conti</i> 2. Virtual Trauma: Social Work with Adolescents in the Online Era <i>Busfield</i> 3. Victim or Offender? Stigma and Justice in a Complex Forensic Case <i>Healy</i> 4. Sexual Abuse, the Therapeutic Alliance, and Therapist Self-Disclosure <i>Oreski</i> 5. Redefining Resilience in Children: A Story of Strength and Survival <i>Stolow</i> 6. Social Work and Sex Trafficking: Therapeutic Intervention in the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children <i>Beckett</i> 7. Social Work with an Adolescent Female Sex Offender <i>De La Cruz</i> 8. In-Home Treatment for In-Home SexualTrauma: The Case of Becky <i>Norman</i> 9. The Silent War Within: Miltary Sexual Trauma <i>Lado</i> 10. Social Work, Sex Addiction, and Psychodynamic Treatment <i>Oxman</i></p>