The Journal is aimed at helping young people move from self-harm to
self-care. It has blank pages for writing about feelings and for drawing and includes artwork, quotes and poems by young people who self-injure. The Journal also has useful information on self-injury, such as helpline telephone numbers. It is A5 size, spiral bound and very bright and colourful. It can be used on its own or in conjunction with counselling, as an additional tool. Individual copies are free when ordered by under 18 year olds.
A visually lyrical, experimental documentary about women who cut themselves, this film explores the gray areas in women's relationships to their bodies in the context of deliberately self-inflicted injury. The women in Between the Lines negotiate the fine line between self-destructive behavior and self-preserving coping mechanisms.
The aim of this booklet is to help those who want to understand and support a woman or young person who struggles with self-injury. An important focus is the feelings and experience of supporters. There are quotes from partners family and friends and ideas to help supporters cope with their own feelings and needs.
Guidelines for working with people who self-injure. A useful starting-point for reviewing existing practice or for the development of new services. Of relevance to individual workers, teams, managers and to service planners.
This booklet was compiled at the end of a series of writing workshops aimed at young women with experience of self-injury. During the workshops the group wrote and shared the poems and pictures included in the pages.
In these two professional videos, David Calof, Dusty Miller, Ed.D., and John N. Briere, Ph.D. discuss the causes of self injury with special attention to childhood sexual abuse. Whatever the method of self injury -- burning, cutting, bruising, passive collusion, accidents, eating disorders -- the key factor in successful intervention is to discover the motivations behind these adaptive responses to trauma.
The therapists consider how treatment for self injury may raise significant issues for the therapist, including countertransference; suicidality vs. self injury; differentiating psychosis and MPD; dissociation; timing trauma work, and borderline personality disorder. Also discussed are effective interventions, such as alternative behaviors, contracts, hospitalization, defusing shame, trauma "containers," and guided imagery.
David Calof, John Briere, and Dusty Miller discuss the roots of self injury in trauma, especially childhood sexual abuse. They point out that self harm takes many forms, including cutting, burning, passive collusion, accidents, and eating disorders. Whatever the modality, the key factor in successful intervention is to discover the motivations behind these adaptive responses to trauma, which may include tension reduction, trauma reenactment, punishment, and rage expression.
Treatment for self injury may raise a number of significant issues for the therapist, such as countertransference, suicidality vs. self injury, and differentiating between borderline personality disorder, psychosis, and dissociation. Suggested interventions may include defusing shame, suggesting alternative behaviors, and utilizing hospitalization, trauma containers, and guided imagery.
This booklet is for any woman who is struggling with self-injury. It is also of value to professionals wishing to help someone overcome self-injury. It aims to help an individual understand and tackle what causes her to want to hurt herself. Again, women's own words help explain the ideas discussed. Large print edition available.
This booklet is for anyone interested in setting up or being involved in a self-help group. It examines the practical concerns as well as some of the particular issues that may arise in a group supporting people who self-injure.
