This volume discusses sexual abuse of male children, the issues surrounding it and approaches to counselling survivors of childhood sexual abuse. It presents recent research findings from in-depth interviews with adult men who were abused in childhood, and describes how males respond to abuse.

This volume discusses sexual abuse of male children, the issues surrounding it and approaches to counselling survivors of childhood sexual abuse. It presents recent research findings from in-depth interviews with adult men who were abused in childhood, and describes how males respond to their abusive experiences in ways that are rarely understood. It discusses therapeutic issues for working with and providing care and help for male survivors, as well as presenting their powerful, painful and moving stories. The book also addresses current controversies such as abuse by clergy and "false memory syndrome". It should be of interest to counsellors, psychologists, social workers, nurses, probation officers and others engaged in the process of dealing with or alleviating the effects of abuse.