ABSTRACT
For a child or an adult, surviving childhood sexual abuse involves developing all sorts of personal resources and enhancing the inherent strengths which a survivor already has. Much work with survivors involves difficult and painful memories and feelings, however, and it is often difficult to confirm strengths. This chapter honours those strengths by examining:
— how she developed and used them as a child; — how she has sustained them as an adult; — how the strengths of survivors are reflected in their writing; — how their strength has been used to teach helpers the best way to support them; — how their strength has ensured that the issue of childhood sexual abuse has been put
onto the public agenda.
