Managing Self-Harm

<p>Self-harm often arises at moments of despair or emotional intensity and its reasons are not necessarily available to the conscious mind. <em>Managing Self-Harm</em> 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.<br><br>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.</p><p>Areas of discussion include: </p><ul> <p> </p> <li>self-harm and young people in foster care and residential settings</li> <li>self-harm in women’s secure services</li> <li>self-harm in people diagnosed with personality disorder</li> </ul><p>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 <em>Managing Self-Harm</em> will be essential reading for all mental health professionals including clinical psychologists psychotherapists psychiatrists psychiatric nurses and social workers. </p>