Office of the Victim Advocate

Resources

The Office of the Victim Advocate has an extensive library of information on recovery, secondary victimization, partner violence, sexual assault, childhood sexual abuse, stalking, and special populations. Please contact us if you are interested in borrowing any materials.

Recovery

Coping with Trauma: Hope Through Understanding

John Allen

Examines trauma and attachment: the effects of trauma on memory, self, emotion, relationships, and illness; trauma-related psychiatric disorders such a depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and self-destructiveness; and healing, including emotion regulation and treatment approaches.

I Can't Get Over it

Aphrodite Matsakis

Directly addresses survivors of trauma. It explains the nature of Stress Disorders, the healing process, etc.

PTSD Sourcebook

Glenn Schiraldi

Details a wide variety of treatment techniques, and gives advice on coping with setbacks and exploring positive aspects of life.

PTSD Workbook

MB Williams

Readers determine the type of trauma they experiences, identify their physical, mental, and emotional symptoms, and learn effective techniques and interventions to overcome them.

Rape Recovery Workbook

Aphrodite Matsakis

For the treatment of PTSD, this workbook helps rape citims cope with the reality of the experience and deal with the aftermath of conflicting and debilitating feelings.

Recovering From Rape

Linda Ledray

The guidebook offers emotional support and practical guidance in overcoming the trauma of rape.

Secondary Victimization

Recovery: How to Survive

Helen Benedict

Addressing both the short and long-term concerns of the rape survivor. This book is a guide on how to survive sexual assault for women, men, teenagers, and their friends and families.

Sexual Assault: Will I Ever Feel Okay Again?

Kay Scott

One woman's personal journey to wholeness and a guide for other victims, their families, and friends. A book offering hope and healing for survivors and others affected.

Partner Violence

Controlling People: How to recognize…

Patricia Evans

This book helps readers free themselves from controlling types but also seeks to explain the occurrence of verbal abuse, battering, stalking, harassment, hate crimes, gang violence, tyranny, terrorism, and territorial invasion.

Dangerous Relationships

Noelle Nelson

How to recognize the dangerous turning points in a relationship and safely diffuse tension between partners, lovers, and friends.

Family & Friends Guide to Domestic Violence

Elanie Weiss

This book is a guide for family and friends, with practical tips for communicating with a likely victim of abuse, including how to broach the subject of domestic violence.

Getting Free

Ginny NiCarthy

This is a self-help book on domestic violence, which describes how women can brake the cycle of abuse and begin the process of recovery and healing

Hurting the One You Love

Irene Hanson Frieze

This book provides learning and explains the environment in violence and aggression, biological factors, reactions to victimization, battered women, sexual assault, and child abuse.

It's My Life Now

Meg Dugan, Roger Hock

Starting over after an abusive relationship or domestic violence.

Surviving Domestic Violence

Elanie Weiss

The book is filled with tragic yet inspiring stories of 12 survivors, ranging in age and socioeconomic circumstances.

Violence in Gay & Lesbian Domestic Partnerships

Claire Renzetti & Charles Miley

The book addresses the social service needs of gay and lesbian domestic violence victims and perpetrators

Why Does He Do that?

Lundy Bancroft

The book explains clearly what causes abusive behavior, describes the nine abusive personality types (from verbal abusers to batterers) and outlines the “warning signs”

Sexual Assault

After Silence

Nancy Venable Raine

Raine gives shape, form, and voice to the ‘unspeakable’ and exposes the misconceptions and cruelties that surround this prevalent though hidden crime. With formidable power and in intimate detail, she probes the long-term psychological and physiological after effects of rape, its tangled sexual confusions, the treatment of rape by the media and the legal and medical professions, and contemporary cultural views of victimhood.

Fraternity Gang Rape

Peggy Sanday

The book discusses fraternity initations demonstrating the inculcation of sexist and brutish attitudes in relation to gang rape.

I Am the Central Park Jogger

Trisha Meili

Written by the Central Park Jogger, in which she reveals her identity and tells the story, you have not heard.

I Never Called it Rape

Robin Warshaw

The book discusses the reporting on the widespread problem of date and acquaintance rape.

Lucky

Alice Sebold

An acclaimed journalist shares the gripping story of her rape when she was a college freshman, achieving justice in the courtroom, and triumphing in the face of violence

Male on Male Rape

Michael Scarce

Examines substantial effects of male-on-male sexual violence & community inability to confront same-sex sexual violence

Public Heroes, Private Felons

Jeff Benedict

The book discusses athletes' abusive behavior, delving into the full spectrum of complex factors that give rise to and perpetuate the disturbing pattern of frequent sexual and domestic violence toward women.

Out of Bounds

Jeff Benedict

This book examines criminal records of NBA athletes, and trends found.

Sexual Assault: Will I Ever Feel Okay Again?

Kay Scott

One woman's personal journey to wholeness and a guide for other victims, their families, and friends. This is a book of hope and healing for survivors.

Telling

Patricia Francisco

Rape is still unspeakable, left out of our personal and cultural conversation. This book discusses a language for the secret grief carried by men and women who have survived rape.

Voices of Courage

Michael Domitrz

This book provides inspiration from survivors of sexual assault.

Childhood Sexual Abuse

Allies in Healing

Laura Davis

Information, support, and guidance asked by partners of survivors of child sexual abuse.

The Courage to Heal

Laura Davis

This book outlines the effects of abuse and the ways women cope. The book also explores the healing process and profiles of survivors.

The Courage to Heal Workbook

Laura Davis

This workbook takes survivors step-by-step through the healing process thru the use of checklists, open-ended questions, writing exercises, etc.

Victims No Longer

Mike Lew

The book educates survivors and professionals about the recovery process of the adult male survivors of sexual abuse.

Stalking

Fear Less

Gavin de Becker

The book addresses the “Real Truth about Risk,” as well as safety, and security relating to terrorism.

Safety for Stalking Victims

Helen Benedict

Safety for Stalking Victims explains what stalking is, how to keep it from overwhelming your life, what is known about evaluating a stalker's potential to turn violent, and how to keep the situation from becoming worse, while being ready for anything.

Stalking: A Handbook for Victims

Emily Spence-Diehl

This book is a handbook for victims of stalking

The Gift of Fear

Gavin de Becker

The book attempts to teach readers to learn to spot the danger signals that others miss by providing tips and suggestions

Special Topics

A Private Family Matter

Victor Rivas Rivers

Victor Rivers grew up in a family terrorized by a father, Tony Rivas, who took his anger out on those closest to him—his wife and children, deals with abuse in a family.

Chain, Chain Change

Evelyn White

This book deals with domestic violence specifically written for black women. It contains new chapters and updated information that are filled with wise advice, guidance, and a strong sense of hope.

I Will Survive

Lori Robinson

The African-American Guide to healing from sexual assault and abuse

Surviving the Silence

Charlotte Pierce-Baker

The book is a collection of black women's stories of rape.

Violence in the Lives of Black Women

Carolyn West

From the view of therapists, researchers, activists, and survivors, this book discusses types of violence, marginalized populations, and healing and social change.

When Dieting Becomes Dangerous

Deborah Michel, Susan G. Willard

A guide to understanding and treating anorexia and bulimia.