UPC: 9781583917053 | Managing Self-Harm: Psychological Perspectives (Paperback)

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Self-harm often arises at moments of despair or emotional intensity and its reasons are not necessarily available to the conscious mind. Managing Self-Harm explores the meaning and impact of self-harm and the sense in which it is a language of the body. It is designed to help clinicians people who self-harm and their families and carers to understand its causes meaning and treatment. Each chapter integrates theory with clinical illustration enabling the direct experiences of those who self-harm to be heard and reflecting the populations that are most likely to self-harm. The contributors are drawn from a wide range of backgrounds including clinical psychology psychotherapy group analysis and psychiatric nursing. Areas of discussion include: self-harm and young people in foster care and residential settings self-harm in women s secure services self-harm in people diagnosed with personality disorder This book does not offer a prescription for self-harm cessation but rather describes therapeutic approaches to working with self-harm and outlines the complex subtle and meaningful interactions between those who engage in self-harm and those who seek to understand it. With a specialist interest in women s self-harm Managing Self-Harm will be essential reading for all mental health professionals including clinical psychologists psychotherapists psychiatrists psychiatric nurses and social workers.