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Best Practice Manual for Specialised
Sexual Assault
Crisis Telephone and Online Counselling, 2nd Edition
March 2009,
ISBN: 978-0-646-50938-9
Published by NSW Rape Crisis Centre
$50.00 plus postage and handling
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It
is every person’s human right to a life free of violence and
when violence occurs, it is their right to receive compassionate
professional assistance in their recovery. The NSW Rape Crisis Centre
aims to be a Centre of excellence in the provision of services to
anyone who has experienced sexual violence.
The Best
Practice Manual for Specialised Sexual Assault Telephone and Online
Counselling, 2nd Edition guides and informs the work of the
NSW Rape Crisis Centre Counsellors and similar professionals so
that these rights may be upheld and this aim achieved.
The manual incorporates
a feminist framework and adopts a feminist analysis of sexual assault.
The impacts of trauma are discussed and resultant mental health
concerns are conceptualised within a trauma model, an alternative
model to that often presented within the medically oriented mental
health field.
The manual contains
sections on:
- Policy
and Practice – a comprehensive explanation on the
rationale, policies and procedures of the Centre;
- Sexual
Assault and Trauma – information on the incidence,
prevalence and impacts of sexual assault is given to provide the
reader with the necessary foundations to inform effective intervention
in this area;
- Telephone
Counselling – a summary of the research on the
effectiveness of telephone counselling and recommendations for
the provision of services to people who have experienced sexual
assault are provided;
- Online
Counselling - a summary of the research on the effectiveness
of online counselling and recommendations for the provision of
services to people who have experienced sexual assault are provided;
- Crisis
Intervention – an empirically derived model of
crisis intervention is offered and discussed in detail to enable
the effective use of this model in clinical practice;
- Ongoing
Contact and Case Management – an empirically derived
model of case management is presented and discussed in detail
to facilitate its use in a client group of sexual assault survivors;
- Risk
Of Harm to Self – provides a detailed explanation
and guidelines for the assessment and management of suicide and
self-harm risk;
- Risk
Of Harm to Others – provides a detailed explanation
and clear guidelines for the assessment and management of the
risk of violence to others, including the risk of harm to children
and other dependants;
- Legal
Issues – provides a summary of many of the legal
issues faced by survivors of sexual assault, including the barriers
to reporting assaults to police, the criminal justice system,
and victim support service;
- Culturally
Sensitive Service Provision – provides guidelines
derived from the professional literature about how to provide
culturally appropriate interventions to sexual assault survivors
who have specific cultural needs; and
- Program
Evaluation - provides the rationale and methodology for
the process and outcome evaluation conducted at the NSW Rape Crisis
Centre.
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