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- Self-injury in ChildrenCould your child be intentionally cutting or burning herself without your knowledge? It's called self-injury or self-mutilation, and you need to know about it, because the practice is on the rise. It's defined as a deliberate harming of your own body without a conscious attempt at suicide. In this 2005 video, meet a young woman who is struggling with this very problem - and hear from her parents about how they cope. We'll also talk about what to do if you suspect your own child might be hurting herself - how you can find out, and how you can stop it.
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EBooks available to read online:
Hidden Self-Harm: Narratives from psychotherapy
Case studies examine self-harm, focusing on the under-explored area of 'hidden' self-harming behavior. The roots of self-care in maternal care are investigated using the method of psychoanalytic infant observation. The case studies that follow 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.
Cutting It Out: A journey through psychotherapy and self-harm
Cutting it Out is a largely autobiographical account of a young woman's battle with self-harm. Carolyn's story documents her own challenging journey, offering unique insights into her feelings about self-harming and also her attitudes towards the therapy sessions commonly employed to help people who self-harm.
Books available at Evelyn S. Field Library
Books on cutting and self harm can be found in the library collection upstairs in the following sections:
RC552-569 This section is focused on the psychopathology and medical condition
RJ506 This section is focused on the condition within children and adolescents
Bleeding to Ease the Pain: Cutting, self-injury and the adolescent search for self
The author describes the frightening developmental tasks teenagers and young adults face, and how the central challenges of the three Is (Independence, Intimacy, and Identity) compel them to cope through self-destructive acts. Readers will come to a better understanding of these struggling teenagers and the dramatic methods they employ to ease and overcome their internal pain through a desperate need to cut and self-injure.
The Tender Cut: Inside the hidden world of self injury
This book argues that self-injury is often a coping mechanism, not a suicidal behavior, and a form of teenage angst, an expression of group membership, and a type of rebellion, converting unbearable emotional pain into manageable physical pain. Based on the largest, qualitative, non-clinical population of self-injurers ever gathered, the authors draw on 150 interviews with self-injurers from all over the world, along with 30,000-40,000 internet posts in chat rooms and communiqués.
Secret Scars
These questions are asked and answered in Secret Scars, a revealing book at the addition of self-injury. Although self-injury is one of the fastest-growing health problems among teenagers today, it remains a behavior shrouded in mystery and misconception. This book attempts to demystify self-injury, explaining it as an addition by sharing case histories and the author's personal struggle as a former self-injurer with long-term recovery. Studies, research findings, and clinical outcomes are cited.
Women living with self-injury
In this book, fifteen women talk about their battle with self-injury and explain how and why they repeatedly and deliberately injure themselves. They also describe living with ceaseless shame, secrecy, and fear of discovery which could make them unemployable and ostracized. Candidly discussing their attempted and successful recoveries, they reveal the impact living with self-injury has on their day-to-day lives--where they are competent workers, partners, friends, and mothers. This book offers compassion as well as encouragement for recovery by making available the emotional experiences of sufferers in their own words.
Cutting : understanding and overcoming self-mutilation
Provides a psychological profile of the self-mutilator, describes the circumstances under which the problem arises, and suggests possible treatments.