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Description
In this truly comprehensive guide, Dr. D'Onofrio approaches the topic of how first-responders, such as teachers, coaches, social workers, guidance counselors, and campus health counselors, can and do treat adolescent self-injury. From examinations of the core social and emotional issues related to self-injury to the integration of understanding with practice, everything needed for comprehensive care is detailed in this volume.

Each part of the book focuses on a basic topic, such as what constitutes self-injury, the foundations for self-injury, and how to engage an adolescent with these issues. Each issue is presented in straightforward chapters that are immediately accessible to those who are currently struggling to address this growing trend among teens. The chapters within each part delve into how to recognize, treat, and approach this illness and incorporate first-person stories from psychologists, teachers, and adolescents themselves.
 

Adolescent Self-Injury is unique in offering:
- Targeted discussion to frontline mental health and healthcare professionals in school and
  college/university settings
- Detailed discussion of the complex trauma and its relationship to self-injury
- Detailed assessment protocol to be used in educational settings
- A chapter on creating pathways to care in schools and on college campuses

Table of Contents
 Preface
 Acknowledgements
                          
Part I: The Nature and Paradox of Self-Injury
 1.  Introduction: Self-Injury on the Frontlines
 2.  The Context and Features of Adolescent Self-Injury 
 3.  The Experience of Trauma and the Foundations for Self-Injury                           
 4.  The Developmental Effects of Complex Trauma
 5.  The Phenomenology of Self-Injury: The Attempt to Turn Pain into Self-Healing
          
Part II: Engagement, Assessment, and Treatment
 6.  Engaging the Self-Injurer: Making Contact with the Person Behind the
      Behavior                           
 7.  Assessing Self-Injury and the Self-Injurious Adolescent
 8.  From Self-Injury to Health: An Overview of the Treatment Process
          
Part III: Creating Pathways to Care
 9.  Managing Self-injury in the School and on the College Campus                           
10. Epilogue: A Voice of Hope in the Face of Suffering
          
Appendix I: Bill of Rights for People Who Self-Harm
Appendix II: Recommended Further Reading
Appendix III: Internet Resources
References
Index

Book Chapter 

D’Onofrio, A. A., & Balzano, J. (2009). Cutting the skin in the hope of healing the spirit. In M. de Souza, L. J. Francis, J. O'Higgins-Norman, and D. Scott, (Eds.).  International Handbook for Spirituality, Care and Wellbeing, (pp. 961-976). New York: Springer.