Product Description: What is self-harm and what causes it? Learn the terms and concepts related to this type of behavior.Provides an in-depth history of self-harm behavior that provides a relatable perspective for the readerOffers realistic and common case samples that promote better understandingExplains how anyone concerned about a self-injurious loved one can best confront the behavior and offers tips on how to provide supportDevotes significant attention to controversial areas such as the prevalence of self-injury in school settings, addresses the use of psychopharmacology in treating the behavior, and gives an overview of effective techniques for treatmen...read more

Product Description: This book is open access under a CC BY license and charts the rise and fall of various self-harming behaviours in twentieth-century Britain. It puts self-cutting and overdosing into historical perspective, linking them to the huge changes that occur in mental and physical healthcare, social work and wider politics...read more

Product Description: Blades, Blood and Bandages tells the stories of 25 people's experiences of self-injury. In so doing, themes which have so far been under represented in the study of this phenomenon are brought to the fore. In particular, it investigates how people who self-injure are affected by suffering, ritual and stigma...read more

Product Description: Choice's Outstanding Academic Title list for 20132013 Honorable Mention for the Distinguished Book Award presented by the Midwest Sociological Society  Honorable Mention for the Charles H. Cooley Award for Outstanding Book from the Society for the Study of Symbolic InteractionCutting, burning, branding, and bone-breaking are all types of self-injury, or the deliberate, non-suicidal destruction of one’s own body tissue, a practice that emerged from obscurity in the 1990s and spread dramatically as a typical behavior among adolescents...read more

Product Description: Understanding Self-Harm is a guide for parents, teachers, therapists or anyone who lives with, supports or provides therapy for people who self-harm. This book blows away the stigma and myths that are attached to this distressing behavior...read more

Product Description: Young people today are inundated with information but often lack the tools for understanding the complex issues that stir public debate; this series provides clear, balanced, and thoughtful examination of the hot-button issues of the day...read more

Product Description: Why do some people repeatedly injure themselves? How common is this form of self-harm? How can professionals offer appropriate intervention and support to those whose lives are troubled by it, either directly or indirectly? This authoritative and systematic book adopts a holistic approach to the problem of repeated self-injury and the difficult emotions and experiences that it givesrise to...read more

Product Description: They cut their arms and legs with knives and razors; scratch at their skin; burn, bruise, or stick themselves with cigarettes, hammers, pins, and other objects; bang their heads and limbs; and break their own bones. Although women who live with self-injury have recently gained recognition in the media, they have, as a result, become even more stigmatized...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Furnishes insightful and compassionate solutions to stressful situations in which one would usually be at a loss for words. Reprint.