SOME USEFUL ORGANISATIONS
ACAL (Association for Child Abuse Lawyers UK organisation holding information on solicitors specialising in child abuse cases. They also provide training for lawyers in this area. Website: http://www.childabuselawyers.com
CAB (Citizens' Advice Bureaux) See local telephone directories, ask in the library, or visit www.nacab.org.uk
CIS'ters (Child Incest Survivors), P.O. Box 119, Eastleigh, SO50 9ZF. Tel. 023 80 338080. Helpline 10am-12noon Saturdays. A survivor network for females, newsletter. Training for professional & voluntary organisations on issues related to abuse in general.
DABS (Directory & Book Services) 4 New Hill, Conisbrough, Doncaster DN12 3HA. (Tel.01709 860023) National Resource Directory of self-help groups and help centres for survivors of abuse. Also a mail order book service, free booklist on request. www.dabsbooks.co.uk
MIND, 15-19 Broadway, London E15 4BQ Mental Health Charity providing information, help and advocacy to users and professionals in the mental health field, including training, books, and magazine. Has regional offices. www.mind.org.uk
NAPAC (National Association for People Abused in Childhood), 42 Curtain Road, London EC2A 3NH. Website: www.napac.org.uk Napac operate a freephone national support and information line 0800 085 3330 - Check their Website for updates.
Rape Crisis, Victim Support These organisations operate throughout the country. If you cannot find details for your local area, contact your Citizens' Advice Bureau who will have information. The Police also hold this information, or you may find it in your Library.
SAMARITANS including on-line help and email support. Telephone 08457 90 90 90 (24 hours) www.samaritans.org.uk/
SANE/SANELINE, 1st Floor, Cityside House, 40 Adler Street, London E1 1EE. Helpline 0845 767 8000. National mental health charity providing information & support to those experiencing mental health problems, www.sane.org.uk
Soteria Network have a new website www.soterianetwork.org.uk
SupportLine http://www.supportline.org.uk Helpline 01708 765200. Charity offering confidential emotional support to children and adults by telephone, email and post. Information and help on a wide range of problems http://www.supportline.org.uk/problems
SURVIVORS SWINDON now AMSOSA www.amsosa.com Provide help to adult male survivors of child sexual abuse and adult sexual assaults, with relevant pages for all survivors of sexual abuse. Training to Agencies.
TOGETHER (formerly MACA) Tel. 020 7780 7300. 12 Old Street, London EC1V 9BE. Nationwide organisation offering a wide range of services for those with mental-health needs, including advocacy, support services, care-homes, supported housing, events, training schemes.
TAG (Trauma & Abuse Group), The Willows Centre, 11 Prospect Place, Swindon SN1 3LQ. Network, information, support & training for people working with those who have suffered trauma and abuse: www.tag-uk.net
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Doc's Outline Questions on Help
Could you have got through without help?
Do you wish you had not sought help? Why?
What might you have done differently?
What do you think was helpful?
What do you think was unhelpful or unconstructive?
What do you feel could be construed as obstructive or abusive?
Do you feel there was anything at all manipulative about it?
This could be in the form of some special expertise, perhaps an overbearing manner,
or even someone being quite charming
Was there an attempt to make the philosophy very attractive?
Or very 'necessary' !
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Doc's Further Questions on Help
Did you ask anyone for some help?
Did you wish you could ask someone for help?
Did you try for help via the National Health Service?
Did you seek help privately?
Did you see a psychologist or someone who used Cognitive Behavioural Therapy – CBT?
Did you seek some kind of spiritual or pastoral help?
For instance through religion, or what some people think of as a cult-like organisation?
Was it some form of alternative medicine or wholistic approach?
Did you consult a form of psychic practitioner?
Did you go for hypnosis or hypnotherapy?
Was it what is loosely termed NLP or neuro linguistic programming?
If you sought help was it helpful to you?
Were there things that were not helpful?
Did you find it easier to talk to friends, colleagues, neighbours, family?
Was it easier to talk to a stranger or casual acquaintance?
Did you receive help from voluntary workers?
Did you try telephone or textlines, email or the Internet?
With hindsight, what would you rather have done?
What would you advise someone else to do with a problem?
Do you feel you have ever been influenced by another person or by a group,
so that you behaved or thought differently from usual? How do you think this happens?
Do you sometimes behave very differently anyway according to circumstances, or how you are feeling?
What other questions do you think might be useful?
Use the Form to say what you want to
You can look on the Internet along the lines of
‘therapy culture’,
‘talking cure’,
or ‘psychotherapy concern’,
and work out
where any of it may fit for you
If you do seek Help it should be
the right kind - for YOU!
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