Adolescent self-injury : a comprehensive guide for counselors and health care professionals /

Main Author: D'Onofrio, Amelio A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Springer Pub., ©2007.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : self-injury on the frontlines
  • The context and features of adolescent self-injury
  • The experience of trauma and the foundations for self-injury
  • The developmental effects of complex trauma
  • The phenomenology of self-injury : the attempt to turn pain into self-healing
  • Engaging the self-injurer : making contact with the person behind the behavior
  • Assessing self-injury and the self-injurious adolescent
  • From self-injury to health : an overview of the treatment process
  • Managing self-injury in the school and on the college campus
  • Epilogue : a voice of hope in the face of suffering.