Books - Non-Fiction For Professionals
Adolescent Self-Injury: A Comprehensive Guide for Counselors and Health Care Professionals
Sat, 2009-04-04 15:27 — GabrielleWith the rise of self-injury in the adolescent population, counselors, psychologists, nurses, and administrators in schools and on college campuses have been challenged to make sense of this often misunderstood and disturbing behavior and to respond appropriately. Having the school and college frontline professional in mind, this book presents a compassionate and comprehensive overview of the latest theory, research, and practice regarding self-injury. It offers practical guidelines on how best to engage and assess self-injuring individuals, and provides concrete strategies for creating effective pathways to further care. Dr. D'Onofrio discusses the socio-cultural, developmental, and psychological factors that may set the stage for the emergence of self-injury, explores the relationship of acute and complex trauma to self-injury, and provides a detailed protocol for assessing self-injuring individuals in educational settings. He also makes recommendations for effectively engaging the families, peers, teachers, and others who may have influence in the care of the self-injuring student, and proposes guidelines for developing institutional response policies and protocols.
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Hidden Self-Harm: Narratives from Psychotherapy
Sat, 2009-04-04 15:27 — GabrielleThe case studies revolve around examples of low-level self-cutting, self-hitting, eating distress and 'self-harm by omission,' including unconsciously invited accidents and failures to 'take care' and to seek appropriate medical care. As well as examining self-harming symptoms, the author highlights the importance of identifying and building on the self-caring tendency that brings the client to psychotherapy.
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Living on the Razor's Edge: Solution-Oriented Brief Family Therapy with Self-Harming Adolescents
Sat, 2009-04-04 15:27 — GabrielleA practice-oriented guidebook for working with self-harming adolescents. Matthew Selekman breaks new ground by providing therapists with an innovative and flexible client-informed model for working with self-harming adolescents. This model integrates the best elements of Solution-Focused Narrative Postmodern Strategic Cognitive and Expressive Therapy with Native American healing methods and rituals. The book is packed with case examples and interview transcripts of culturally diverse clients.
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See My Pain! Creative Strategies and Activities for Helping Young People Who Self-Injure
Sat, 2009-04-04 15:27 — GabrielleThis 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:
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Self Injury : Psychotherapy With People Who Engage in Self-Inflicted Violence
Sat, 2009-04-04 15:27 — GabrielleOffers 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.
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Self-Harm Behavior and Eating Disorders: Dynamics, Assessment, and Treatment
Sat, 2009-04-04 15:27 — GabrielleThe 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. Read more »
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Self-Injurious Behavior: Assessment and Treatment
Sat, 2009-04-04 15:27 — GabrielleThis 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.
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Self-Injury in Youth: The Essential Guide to Assessment and Intervention
Sat, 2009-04-04 15:27 — GabrielleThis edited volume features evidence-based reviews and practical approaches for the professional in the hospital, clinic, community and school, with case examples throughout. Divided into five major sections, the book offers background historical and cultural information, discussion of self-injury etiology, assessment and intervention/prevention issues, and relevant resources for those working with youths who self-injure.
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Self-Mutilation
Sat, 2009-04-04 15:27 — GabrielleThorough treatment of a disturbing phenomenon. Provides insight for the broad range of mental health professionals who come in contact with self-destructive behaviors.
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