Support for Partners of Childhood Sexual Abuse Survivors
Watching them Survive is a site for friends and family of violent sexual crime survivors. It also has links to an email list and other resources for partners of sexual abuse survivors.
Infos für Verbündete is a German site for partners of sexual abuse survivors.
Link: http://www.ungeheilt.de/
(This site is temporarily offline)
The Sexual Abuse Centre is a social services agency in New Zealand and they offer some tips for partners of survivors as well as a good deal of information about child sexual abuse.
Link: http://www.sexualabuse.co.nz/toher.htm
This book is targeted at the partners of abuse survivors (including but not liited to childhood sexual abuse). It provides guidance i 8 major areas:
Link: http://www.amazon.com/Outgrowing-Pain-Together-Eliana-Gil/dp/0440503728
This book is written by a partner of a sexual abuse survivor (who later discovered he was also a survivor). It's widely recognized as one of the better books for partners of survivors to read.
Link: http://www.amazon.com/Survivors-Partners-Healing-Relationships-Sexual/d…
WebMD has an article and various resources on the effects of sexual abuse. The links below are to articles that talk in general about the effects sexual abuse has on survivors and their partners, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Links: http://www.webmd.com/sex-relationships/features/has-your-partner-been-a… http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/news/20050519/child-sex-abuse-affect… http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/news/20061121/stress-disorder-more-c… http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/post-traumatic-stress-disorder
This site is an advocacy for adult survivors of childhood abuse, and they have a page with information for partners.
Link: http://www.havoca.org/Partners/partners%20needs%20of%20the%20partner.htm
Gudrun Frerichs is a psychologist based in New Zealand who has started an impressive site focused on sexual abuse. Part of that site is about relationships for those who have been sexually abused. She has posted some good information that is useful not only for sexual abuse survivors but also for their partners.
Link: http://gfrerichs.typepad.com/gudrunfrerichs/relationships/
This is a public Yahoo Group for partners of survivors.
Link: health.groups.yahoo.com/group/positivepartnersofsurvivors/
This site has some good resources for partners about PTSD (Post-traumatic stress disorder), suicide and other issues. They also host an Yahoo email list/group for partners of survivors.