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Author Copen, Lynn M. M

Title Finding Your Way : What Happens When You Tell About Abuse
Published Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (69 pages)
Series Interpersonal Violence: The Practice Series
Interpersonal violence.
Contents Introduction; What Is Abuse?; Telling What Happened; Filing Charges; Preliminary Hearing or Grand Jury; Chips/Protection and Services; Types of Lawyers; The Criminal Trial; Sentencing; Your Feelings; Healing; Resource People
Summary This brief-easy-to-understand book explains what happens when a child discloses abuse and how various systems may respond to this disclosure, from investigation through prosecution or juvenile court involvement to therapy. Intended for children ages 9-18, this book is written in a supportive tone and helps children to understand what abuse is, the steps that are taken to protect the child, the process of prosecuting the abuser, and the child's own feeling and healing process
Notes Print version record
Subject Abused children -- Counseling of
Child abuse -- United States
Child sexual abuse -- United States
Child abuse -- Reporting -- United States
Child sexual abuse -- Reporting -- United States
Abused children -- Rehabilitation -- United States
Sexually abused teenagers -- Rehabilitation -- United States
Abused children -- Counseling of
Abused children -- Rehabilitation
Child abuse
Child abuse -- Reporting
Child sexual abuse
Child sexual abuse -- Reporting
Sexually abused teenagers -- Rehabilitation
Kind
Sexueller Missbrauch
Zeugenaussage
United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
Juvenile works
Form Electronic book
Author Pucci, Dr. Linda M. M
ISBN 9781452252001
1452252009
9781452229324
1452229325