Sexual Abuse in Sport: A Qualitative Case Study

Author:   Helen Owton
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016
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9783319835877


Pages:   128
Publication Date:   04 July 2018
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Helen Owton
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9783319835877


ISBN 10:   3319835874
Pages:   128
Publication Date:   04 July 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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This book is appropriate for undergraduate, graduate students, instructors, coaches, or anyone who is concerned about or wants a greater understanding of sexual abuse. It is an ideal supplemental text for a gender and psychology class, an introduction to psychology class, or a sport psychology class. ... Through reading the book, students, practitioners, and professionals will reflect on a taboo issue that occurs in sport and hopefully consider ways to make sport safer for all. (Jennifer J. Waldron, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 62 (13), March, 2017)


This book is appropriate for undergraduate, graduate students, instructors, coaches, or anyone who is concerned about or wants a greater understanding of sexual abuse. It is an ideal supplemental text for a gender and psychology class, an introduction to psychology class, or a sport psychology class. ... Through reading the book, students, practitioners, and professionals will reflect on a taboo issue that occurs in sport and hopefully consider ways to make sport safer for all. (Jennifer J. Waldron, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 62 (13), March, 2017) The book is a must read for anybody who has children participating in sport or indeed is immersed in a sporting context (i.e. coach, official). ... this book awoke my consciousness to what sexual abuse and exploitation is as well as the associated grooming process. (Jenny McMahon, Children & Society, Vol. 32 (2), 2018)


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Helen Owton is a chartered psychologist and a lecturer in Sport and Fitness in the School of Childhood, Youth and Sport at the Open University. She has published widely in sport and in the field of sexual abuse in sport, and has won a Citation for Excellence award from the Qualitative Methods of Psychology. Her primary research specialisms lie in innovative qualitative investigations of sporting embodiment and gender, and other research interests focus around chronic illnesses (especially asthma), women's boxing, and dance.

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