FSA Education Sunday Digest

'Rejected, Shamed, and Blamed' foreign translation rights; FSA research in Zambia update; a Subscriber's powerful comment on the experience of FSA, and all the content you may have missed this week!

Jul 21, 2024

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News, Announcements, and Updates

Rejected, Shamed, and Blamed - Foreign Translation Rights Update: After a long search, I have finally selected a reputable agency to represent me in regard to selling foreign translation rights worldwide for my introductory book on Family Scapegoating Abuse (FSA), Rejected, Shamed, and Blamed: Help and Hope for Adults in the Family Scapegoat Role.

There are already several publishers interested in purchasing rights - In fact, I was surprised to learn that shortly after submitting Rejected, Shamed, and Blamed for foreign publishers to consider, it became the 2nd best performing title at my agency.

This is potentially good news for those subscribers who have been asking for me to have my book translated into their native language.

If you live outside of the United States and have a favorite self-help publisher that you think might be interested in my book, you can let me know of the publisher in the comment section below and I’ll ask my foreign rights agent to look into it.

This week I received an update from Dr Balapala Karthee, who is conducting a peer-reviewed research study at a University in Zambia that is partially based on my family scapegoating abuse (FSA) research and one of my FSA questionnaires.

Dr Karthee wrote this week to let me know that he received approval for the research proposal on family scapegoating abuse and mental health from the National Health Research Ethics Board in Zambia. (My questionnaire was approved earlier by a panel of Mental Health experts, with only some minor adjustments made to account for cultural differences).

Having my FSA research and related work (such as Questionnaires) further legitimatized globally within clinical and academic settings is one of the ways I hope to bring attention to this form of abuse and its devastating impact on survivors to improve assessment and treatment processes within the Mental Health field.

If you are a doctoral student considering doing a dissertation on family scapegoating or family betrayal’s impact on individuals, feel free to reach out to me in a comment below and we can set up a time to speak further privately.

Article (and Substack) of Interest

Do you wonder if you are being scapegoated by in-laws? If so, I encourage you to check out this article (with check-list) by one of our subscriber’s

Violet Gray, MA, Social Worker

from her Substack focusing on being scapegoated by Narcissistic in-laws (and recognizing and recovering from it), Married to the (Narcissistic) Mob. Violet’s writing style is fierce (and fiercely engaging) and I appreciate her support of my work on FSA and her recommending my Substack in return.

Interested in Addiction Recovery and FSA? Check out this new Substack Writer

Kelly Thompson: There’s Nothing Wrong With You (And There Never Was)

Kelly Thompson

is new to Substack. She is editor and curator for The Rumpus column, Voices on Addiction. I am very much looking forward to her content as she gets rolling here. Born and raised in a high control religion she fled as a teen, Kelly Thompson writes about how to recover, find your bad-ass, kick ass, and align with your true Self.

Below is all the content I shared this week that you may want to check out if you missed it when it came out.

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The Many Layers of Emotional and Psychological Abuse Within the 'Family Scapegoat' Role

I encourage you all to read this comment from one of our subscribers