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Issue #110 (Fall 2012)
Moving Past Abuse
Advocacy group Children's Rights is suing the Massachusetts foster care system to get it to improve care. (full text)
In this introduction to the issue, the writer explains how abuse can cause people to develop "maladaptive" behaviors. (full text)
The writer endures sexual abuse by her uncle until she blurts the truth out to a teacher. Her mother does not rise to the occasion. (full text)
Olivia is physically abused by her father as a young girl and begins to dissociate when she remembers it. Dissociation also takes her away from her mother's alcoholism. (full text)
Therapists describe techniques that use the body to help abuse survivors recover from their trauma—EMDR, Somatic Experiencing, and EFT Tapping. (full text)
Jasmine lectures Shawn about getting informed and voting in the upcoming presidential election.
After being taken away from her drug-abusing mother and then beaten by her first foster mother, the author doesn't trust adults. (full text)
Anthony escapes his abusive mother and writes down what happened to him. This helps, as does talking to a good therapist. (full text)
The author's father abuses her for many years and she goes into care. Now, when she's 17, he wants forgiveness, but she's not sure whether to trust him. (full text)
One lesson has teens find the positive things writers did to help themselves escape and heal from abuse. The other lesson has them finish another writer's life story with a hopeful ending.
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