Everything You Need to Know About Self-Mutilation: A Helping Book for Teens Who Hurt Themselves (Need to Know Library)

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Defined as "the act of intentionally harming one's body for emotional relief," self-mutilation is an illness affecting as many as two million people in the U.S. Ng describes several categories of self-abuse, ranging from fairly superficial injuries to the amputation of a limb or castration. She indicates how to recognize the symptoms and notes the potential consequences. Further, the author offers information on where to find help and basic advice on what a friend can do for someone caught up in this destructive cycle. Throughout the text, anecdotes and black-and-white and color photographs put a human face on this particular disorder. The book concludes with a glossary and names and addresses of helpful organizations and Web sites. While Alicia Clarke's Coping with Self-Mutilation (Rosen, 1999) provides more detailed information on the disorder and available treatment options, this book will be a useful tool for guidance counselors, school nurses, and social workers and will appeal to reluctant readers.

Frequently Asked Questions about Self-Mutilation and Cutting

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Frequently Asked Questions About Self-mutilation and Cutting (Faq: Teen Life: Set 1)

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Go Ask Ogre: Letters from a Deathrock Cutter

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When she was 17, Siana wrote a series of letters to punk rocker Ogre, the front man of the '80s band Skinny Puppy. The letters speak of depression and cutting, drug abuse and sex, music and poetry. At one concert, Ogre told her that he saved all her letters and one day would return them. True to his word, two boxes arrived at her door nine years later; inside were illustrated letters and journals filled with her most intimate thoughts and fears. Like most cutters, those who injure themselves as a physical manifestation of their inner pain, Siana felt powerless as her life spun out of control. Rereading the letters years later, she realized that expressing herself through this way had saved her life. The letters share what it's like to grow up weird and how one girl could rise above her background. Almost every page of the book is filled with heartbreaking artwork and photos, which brilliantly link the journal entries and letters together, allowing readers to get a look inside the mind of a very creative but disturbed young woman. At the end of the book is a letter from Siana's therapist and a list of resources for teenagers who may be experiencing the same problems and emotions that the author wrote about.

Healing the Hurt Within : Understand and Relieve the Suffering Behind Self-Destructive Behaviour

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This book is a giant leap forward in making self-harm understandable to professionals and self-harmers alike. The damaging, often deliberate ignorance of society at large about the consequences of childhood trauma and abuse, whether sexual, physical or emotional is deep rooted. For people already suffering to have to cope with hostile disbelief and judgemental attitudes is a double injury.

Helping Teens Who Cut: Understanding and Ending Self-Injury

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Discovering that their teen “cuts” is absolutely terrifying for parents. Without a clear understanding of what motivates cutting, many worry their teen may be contemplating suicide. Michael R. Hollander, a leading authority on teen self-injury, gives parents the straight facts about this alarming behavior--and explains what they can do to make it stop. Drawing on years of clinical practice and the latest research, Dr. Hollander shows how overwhelming emotions lead some teens to hurt themselves, and how various treatments--chief among them dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT)--can provide effective routes to wellness. Parents learn what to look for in a therapist, how to talk to their teen about cutting without making it worse, and practical strategies for helping their teen cope with extreme emotions in a healthier way. Helping Teens Who Cut also provides much-needed suggestions for reducing stress and improving family communication and problem solving.

Hidden Self-Harm: Narratives from Psychotherapy

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The case studies revolve around examples of low-level self-cutting, self-hitting, eating distress and 'self-harm by omission,' including unconsciously invited accidents and failures to 'take care' and to seek appropriate medical care. As well as examining self-harming symptoms, the author highlights the importance of identifying and building on the self-caring tendency that brings the client to psychotherapy.

Inside a Cutter's Mind: Understanding And Helping Those Who Self-injure

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Life After Self-Harm

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Suicide. Cutting. Self-mutilation. In many countries, there has been an alarming increase in rates of self-harm, yet the crippling stigma attached to these difficulties often leads to sub-optimal care. Life After Self-Harm is written for individuals who have deliberately harmed themselves. Illustrated with multiple case-histories, it teaches users important skills, such as: understanding and evaluating self-harm, keeping safe in a crisis, dealing with seemingly insolvable problems, developing coping strategies and for re-connecting with life. Developed through a major research project, the contents of the manual have been informed and shaped by many users and expert professionals. Health workers who regularly come into contact with individuals who have self-harmed will find the wealth of practical advice in this book extremely valuable for recommendation to patients either as a self-help book or in the context of brief therapy.

Living on the Razor's Edge: Solution-Oriented Brief Family Therapy with Self-Harming Adolescents

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A practice-oriented guidebook for working with self-harming adolescents. Matthew Selekman breaks new ground by providing therapists with an innovative and flexible client-informed model for working with self-harming adolescents. This model integrates the best elements of Solution-Focused Narrative Postmodern Strategic Cognitive and Expressive Therapy with Native American healing methods and rituals. The book is packed with case examples and interview transcripts of culturally diverse clients.