Helping teens who cut understanding and ending self-injury
Overview: Discovering that your teen "cuts" is absolutely terrifying; before you understand what really motivates cutting, you may worry your child is contemplating suicide. What can you do to help when every attempt to address the behavior seems to push him or her further away? In this compassionat...
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New York, New York :
Guilford Press,
Ã2008.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Kids who deliberately hurt themselves
- Understanding Self-Injury:
- Fact versus fiction: bringing self-injury into the light
- What sets the stage for self-injury?
- How does hurting themselves make some kids feel better?
- DBT: the right therapy for your teen
- Helping Your Teen In Treatment And At Home:
- Making the most of DBT
- Resetting the stage: how to help your teen restore emotion to its proper place
- Writing a better script: new ways to discourage self-injury
- Taking care of yourself to take care of your teen
- How to speak with siblings, friends, and the school about your child's troubles
- Appendix A: Intensive treatment programs
- Appendix B: Intensive treatment programs
- Resources: Websites related to self-injury
- Index
- About the author.
