Healing the Harm Done: A Parent's Guide to Helping Your Child Overcome the Effects of Sexual Abuse

With both English and Spanish text included under the same cover, this guide provides practical, compassionate advice for parents on dealing with abused children's troublesome behaviors and emotional concerns. It addresses topics such as sleep disturbance, inappropriate sexual behavior, worries about the future, and the parents' own life struggles as they assist their children to recuperate and become healthy survivors.

Jennifer Y. Levy, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist with more than twenty-five years’ experience in the mental health field. She has treated children, adolescents, and adults with a wide variety of problems. Her specialty area has been the treatment of sexually abused children and teenagers as well as adults who were abused as children. Dr. Levy was voted one of the Washington, D.C. metro area’s "Top 123 Therapists" in a survey by Washingtonian Magazine of 1500 mental health professionals. She has been active in the development of domestic violence and rape crisis services in her community. Dr. Levy has given numerous presentations on the subject of sexual abuse to professionals and community groups.