Mutilating the Body: Identity in Blood and Ink

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Mutilating the Body: Identity in Blood and Ink is an analysis of the different ways in which people use their bodies for self-expression that considers the significance of body modification and how different forms of body art and alteration serve individual and cultural needs. The book also addresses eating disorders, self-cutting, and ritualized consensual sadomasochism.

Scars That Wound, Scars That Heal: A Journey Out of Self Injury (Live Free)

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In Scars That Wound: Scars That heal, you'll walk alongside Jackie, whose arms are marked with reminders of the painful journey she thought she had to take alone. Self-injury is inflicted to deal with stressful situations or traumatic memories; to temporarily ease fears, loneliness, and anxiety; or even as a coping mechanism to turn to again and again. There is a way out of this world of pain. Jesus truly cares-his scars prove it. He's waiting to help heal your wounds and the wounds of the people you care about.

Secret Scars: One woman's story of overcoming self-harm

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Secret Scars: Uncovering and Understanding the Addiction of Self-Injury

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What is self-injury? Why would people deliberately hurt themselves? Why can't they stop? What can I do to help? These question are asked and answered in SECRET SCARS, a revealing look at the addiction of self-injury. Self-injury is one of the fastest growing health problems among teenage girls today. Despite its prevalence, however, self-injury remains a behavior shrouded in mystery and misconceptions. SECRET SCARS is a groundbreaking book that demystifies self-injury by explaining it as an addiction. The author takes both an engaging and scholarly approach to help the reader understand the dynamics involved in self-injury. Not only does Turner share case histories and her personal struggle as a former self-injurer, she backs it up by citing studies, research findings, and clinical outcomes.

See My Pain! Creative Strategies and Activities for Helping Young People Who Self-Injure

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This book provides a collection of strategies and activities to help children and adolescents who deliberately self-injure. A variety of hands-on creative arts approaches are featured that can be used in private practice and school settings. When working with youth who self-injure it is helpful to have a variety of creative approached at your fingertips. The approaches and activities in this book can be used with individuals or with a small group. The activities help children/adolescents to express their feelings, understand why they self-injure, engage in a healing process, explore new methods of coping and prevention, and find new meaning and purpose in their lives. This book provides a description of self-mutilation in young people and its underlying causes. Then, an overview of therapeutic approaches is presented along with suggestions for the professional counselor/social worker/psychologist, teachers and parents. Sample assessment questions and activities are included. The following 15 strategies with activities are reproducibles are featured: - Crucial Communication Skills - Personal Strength Coaching - Visual Arts - Sand Tray - Story Telling - Creative Dramatics - Prayer Power - Clay - Creative Journaling - Relaxation/Guided Imagery - Metaphors - Music - Tactile Diversion - Animals and Nature - Mentoring

Self-Harm: A Psychotherapeutic Approach

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Edited by Louise Roxanne Pembroke. Louise Pembroke's book gives us a clearer picture of what self harmers go through – how they think and react.

Self-Injury: Psychotherapy with People Who Engage in Self-Inflicted Violence

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Offers guidelines for working with people who directly injure their bodies. Explains the function of self-inflicted violence and its relationship to unresolved traumas and losses, and focuses on the role of trauma in disrupting the formation of the self-boundary. Identifies therapeutic tasks, gives examples of interventions, and offers concrete recommendations for interaction with patients about self- injury. Explores countertransference responses, and addresses adjunct therapies. Connors is a clinician and consultant in private practice.

Self-Harm Behavior and Eating Disorders

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The number of eating disorders patients presenting with symptoms of self-harm is growing quickly, and yet there is surprisingly little known about this unique population. Self-Harm Behavior and Eating Disorders explores the prevalent but largely uncharted relationship between self-injury behaviors and eating disorders symptoms. In the first major book to focus on this area, a renowned group of international scholars and practitioners addresses the subject from a variety of theoretical and practical perspectives. The book is categorized into sections covering epidemiology, psychodynamics, assessment, and a final section covering potential treatment options, including dialectical behavioral therapy, cognitive therapy, interventions strategies, group therapy, and pharmacological approaches. This unrivaled collection of case studies, theoretical exploration, and practical application forms a benchmark for the field, and offers a stepping-stone for new research and innovative treatment strategies. In an area with little available information, previously spread out among diffuse sources, this volume represents the state-of-the-field resource for anyone working with complex eating disorders patients.

Self-Injurious Behaviors: Assessment and Treatment

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This volume presents a nosology of self-injurious behaviors, classifying them as stereotypic, major, compulsive, and impulsive. Chapters cover both the theoretical and the practical as they discuss these categories in relation to phenomenology, biological and psychological theories, and pharmacological and psychotherapeutic treatment approaches. Contributors include psychiatrists, psychologists, clinical pharmacologists, and social workers from the United States and South Africa.

Self-Injury in Youth: The Essential Guide to Assessment and Intervention

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