Child Molesters, Child Rapists, and Child Sexual Abuse: Why and How Sex Offenders Abuse: Child Molestation, Rape, and Incest Stories, Studies, and Models
Dr. Lynn Daugherty has been bringing hope and healing to former victims of child sexual abuse, and to their families, for more than twenty-five years.Treating children, adolescents, and adults who were victims of sexual abuse was the primary focus of her psychology practice, although she also worked extensively with sex offenders as a forensic evaluation team director.Dr. Daugherty's award-winning bestseller, "Why Me? Help for Victims of Child Sexual Abuse (Even if they are adults now)," is a beginning self-help book for former victims who want to understand more about child sexual abuse and begin changing its effects on their lives."Voices of Survivors," containing selections from the longer book.These stories let former victims know they are not alone, that others have survived similar experiences of abuse.In "Listening and Talking to Your Sexually Abused Child" Dr. Daugherty guides parents to a stronger relationship with their son or daughter as they begin the journey to recovery.Dr. Daugherty wrote "Child Molesters, Child Rapists, and Child Sexual Abuse," to help former victims, and the general public, understand more about how child sexual abuse takes place and what motivates abusers. It reinforces the idea that children are not abused because there is something "wrong" with them, but because there is something "wrong" with the abuser.A former National Science Foundation Fellow, adjunct university professor, and internationally respected expert on child sexual abuse, Dr. Daugherty and her husband, a retired attorney, now divide their time between New Mexico and Florida where Dr. she concentrates on her writing.Her study of psychology began at Middlebury College in Vermont and continued at the University of Tulsa and the University of Montana. There she completed a Ph.D. and a postdoctoral training program in clinical psychology. In addition to writing for the general public, she has published research in a variety of professional journals.