Books - Non-Fiction
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The Naked Bird Watcher
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In an engaging, informative and, on occasion, amusing autobiography what continually shines through is the author's consistently positive outlook and her refusal to be ashamed losing what she describes as 'the battle of percentages' in developing manic depression/bipolar disorder. In this candid and honest description of one person's experience of living a full and varied life whilst coping with a serious mental health problem, the author gives a vivid but lucid insight into the torment that is mental distress while highlighting the importance of good psychiatric treatment, support and careful self management as the vital aids to recovery which will be of immense value, help and reassurance to many.
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The Scarred Soul: Understanding & Ending Self-Inflicted Violence
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Self-inflicted violence. Written for the victims of this addiction--and for mental health professionals--The Scarred Soul explores the reasons behind this behavior and shows how to overcome the psychological traps that lead to self-destructive acts. Illustrations and charts.
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To Walk on Eggshells
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With 'To Walk on Eggshells' by Jean Johnston along with 'The Naked Bird Watcher' by Suzy Johnston there is now an unusual and rare insight into mental illness from both the carer and her patient. In 'To Walk on Eggshells', the carer details the onset of mental illness, her coming to terms with her daughter's condition and how the two of them together faced the torment of the daughter's mental distress and eventually climbed the mountain that would lead to Recovery.
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Treating Self-Injury: A Practical Guide
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Uniquely practical and comprehensive, this timely guide addresses a problem that is on the rise, particularly among adolescents and young adults. Practitioners gain a wealth of knowledge about the variety and causes of self-injurious behavior and how to recognize it in people at risk, ranging from those who do not have psychiatric diagnoses to those with eating or mood disorders, PTSD, personality disorders, or psychoses. Illustrated with detailed case examples, clear guidelines are presented for assessing clients and conducting evidence-based interventions using replacement skills training, cognitive-behavioral therapy, exposure treatment, psychopharmacology, and family- and school-based strategies. Several reproducible forms are included, and appendices offer essential clinical resources and tools.
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Understanding Self-Injury: A Workbook for Adults
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To understand self-injury as a coping mechanism, it is often helpful to explore the feelings and issues that underlie the behavior. This book is designed to provide both information and an opportunity to think, write and draw about your experience.
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When the Body Is the Target: Self-Harm, Pain, and Traumatic Attachments
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In this comprehensive and insightful work, Dr. Sharon K. Farber provides an invaluable resource for the mental health professional who is struggling to understand self-harm and its origins. Using attachment theory to explain how addictive connections to pain and suffering develop, she discusses various kinds and functions of self-harm behavior. From eating disorders to body modifications such as tattooing, Dr. Farber explores the language of self-harm, and the translation of that language and its psychic functions in the therapeutic setting. She tells us, "When the body weeps tears of blood, we need to wonder what terrible sorrows cannot be spoken." Brilliantly illustrated with rich clinical material, this book offers a practical approach to the diagnosis, assessment, and treatment of the increasing number of patients whose emotions are expressed through bodily harm. The challenges of working with patients who tend to view the world of relationships in terms of predator and prey are clearly explicated and the stormy counter transference responses that threaten to destroy the treatment are given a full hearing. Finally, she shows how the attachment relationship formed in treatment can repair the traumatic attachment in mind, body, psyche, and soul, and can serve as the cornerstone of therapeutic change.
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When Your Child Is Cutting: A Parent's Guide to Helping Children Overcome Self-injury
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A Compassionate Guide for Parents As a parent, what's harder to deal with than seeing your child in pain? It's especially frustrating when you feel like you've exhausted the resources you could use to help him or her stop hurting. And if your child is cutting or engaging in another form of self-injury, a behavior that you simply can't make any sense of in the first place, this feeling of helplessness can be unbearable. This book offers you information and advice for dealing with a child who is hurting him or herself. Learn why self-injury happens, how to identify it, and how to address this sensitive topic with calm and confidence. Follow the book's clear and simple plan for communicating with your child about this problem. Connect with the best kinds of professional help to get him or her through this painful time. Above all, rely on this compassionate and clinically sound book to give you the one thing you really need when your child is in pain-hope. · Learn about the causes and effects of self-injury · Identify the signs of self-harm · Communicate effectively with a child who is hurting him or herself · Choose the best professional help · Support your child's recovery "When Your Child Is Cutting is an excellent resource for both parents and professionals. It presents the facts about cutting and how to manage this problem. It is written in an accessible and readable format. The book takes a good deal of the fear out of dealing with cutting behaviors and provides a needed appendix of frequently asked questions. This text is pragmatic and to the point and can be of real help to many concerned parents and health service providers." -Robert W. Motta, Ph.D., ABPP, director of the Doctoral Program in School-Community Psychology at Hofstra University
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Women and Self Harm: Understanding, Coping and Healing from Self-Mutilation
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Hundreds of thousands of women self-mutilate, yet very little is known about the reasons for this widespread phenomenon or the experience of self-harming itself. Now, this powerful and accessible book gathers together the personal testimonies of a broad range of women who self-mutilate, explores the causes and effects of self-harming behavior and offers strategies for understanding, overcoming and healing from self-mutilation.
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Women Living With Self-Injury
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This book offers compassion as well as encouragement for recovery by making available the emotional experiences of sufferers in their own words. It is an important book for those who self-injure their loved ones anyone who knows of or suspects self-injury in a friend and mental care professionals.
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Working with Self-Harming Adolescents: A Collaborative, Strengths-Based Therapy Approach (Norton Professional Books (Paperback))
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Cutting, burning, drug and alcohol abuse, excessive risk taking, eating disorders-self-harm is an all-too-common and distressing part of teenage lives. Matthew D. Selekman sorts myth from fact and helps professionals intervene in a way that builds the inner strength of teens rather than turning them away. Rich in case examples and clear clinical direction, this book is an invaluable practical resource.
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