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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
Psychological Services Institute
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