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Hope and Healing for Kids Who Cut: (Christian faith-based) |
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Author: Marv Penner
Publisher: Youth Specialties
ISBN: 978-0310277552
Description You may have noticed them—the kids who are hiding their pain under long
sleeves or wristbands. Or you might never notice them—the ones who seem
to have life together except for the deep secret that they keep hidden
beneath their clothes. This is no longer a fringe issue that occurs
only in the most extreme cases. The truth is that many teens today are
dealing with their emotional pain by inflicting physical pain upon
themselves, whether we can see it on the surface or not.
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we may never fully understand the motives behind self-mutilation and
cutting, we can begin to understand why some teens cut, and more
importantly, we can learn how to help. Hope and Healing for Kids Who
Cut will take you into the world of self-injury, defining what it
is—and what it is not. You’ll hear stories from teens and young adults
who struggle with the urge to hurt themselves, and you’ll learn to
recognize the signs of self-injury. In addition, counselor and
professor, Marv Penner will help you understand the cycle of addiction,
that has become everyday life for so many hurting teens, and he’ll give
you the tools and wisdom to help a self-injurer find hope and healing.
Whether you know someone who is cutting, or you are struggling with
this addiction yourself, Hope and Healing for Kids Who Cut is something
you want to have in your “first-aid” kit.
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Cutting: Self Injury and Emotional Pain (Christian faith-based) |
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Elaina Whittenhall invites you to learn from her struggle with cutting and offers you practical suggestions for finding help, hope and healing. This Christian narrative for self-injurers (or those who want to know how to help them) is the first of its kind
Ebook available at http://www.ivpress.com/offers/cutting/ 
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Cutting: Understanding and Overcoming Self-Mutilation |
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Author: Steven Levenkron
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 0393319385
Description: Nearly a decade ago, Cutting boldly addressed a traumatic psychological disorder affecting as many
as two million Americans. More than that, it revealed self-mutilation
as a comprehendible, treatable disorder, no longer to be evaded by the
public and neglected by professionals. Using copious examples from his
practice, Steven Levenkron traces the factors that predispose a
personality to self-mutilation: genetics, family experience, childhood
trauma, and parental behavior. Written for sufferers, parents, friends,
and therapists, /Cutting/ explains why the disorder manifests in self-harming behaviors and describes how patients can be helped.
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Bodily Harm |
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Authors: Karen Conterio, Wendy Lader and Jennifer Kingsonbloom
Publisher: Hyperion
ISBN: 0786885041
Description:
Self-injury is one of our society's fastest-growing and most disturbing
epidemics. Bodily Harm is the most authoritative examination of this
alarming syndrome and the first to offer a comprehensive treatment
regimen. Written by the directors of S.A.F.E. (Self Abuse Finally Ends)
Alternatives, it clearly defines what cutting is and explains the kinds
of emotional trauma that can lead to self-mutilation. Most importantly,
Bodily Harm offers a course of treatment based on years of experience
and extensive clinical research; as well as compassion, advice, and
hope for the afflicted and their loved ones.
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See My Pain: Creative Strategies... for helping Young People Who Self-Injure |
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Author: Susan Bowman & Kaye Randall
Publisher: YouthLight, Inc.
ISBN: 1889636622
Description: This
book provides a collection of strategies and activities to help
children and adolescents who deliberately self-injure. A variety of
hands-on creative arts approaches are featured that can be used in
private practice and school settings. When working with youth who
self-injure it is helpful to have a variety of creative approached at
your fingertips. The approaches and activities in this book can be used
with individuals or with a small group. The activities help
children/adolescents to express their feelings, understand why they
self-injure, engage in a healing process, explore new methods of coping
and prevention, and find new meaning and purpose in their lives.
This
book provides a description of self-mutilation in young people and its
underlying causes. Then, an overview of therapeutic approaches is
presented along with suggestions for the professional counselor/social
worker/psychologist, teachers and parents. Sample assessment questions
and activities are included. The following 15 strategies with
activities are reproducibles are featured:
- Crucial Communication Skills
- Personal Strength Coaching
- Visual Arts
- Sand Tray
- Story Telling
- Creative Dramatics
- Prayer Power
- Clay
- Creative Journaling
- Relaxation/Guided Imagery
- Metaphors
- Music
- Tactile Diversion
- Animals and Nature
- Mentoring
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Analyze Yourself |
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Author: Karyn Gordon
Publisher: Willard & Associates
ISBN: 1894860004
Description: Analyse Yourself is a practical book for pre-teens and
teens to help them understand their friends, parents and
themselves. Think of this book as the big picture
revealing the real deal with teenager self-esteem.
Whether we realize it or not, the attitude we have about
ourselves impacts almost every area of our life!
Read what teens have to say about Analyse Yourself!
Analyse Yourself will help you make sense of your
actions and choices. Once you realize you can control
how you choose to live, you are empowered to make one of
your most important decisions: how you think about
yourself!
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Always strive for perfection? |
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Jump from relationship to relationship with no
time-out? |
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Always date the wrong person? |
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Put themselves or other people down? |
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Have difficulty making decisions? |
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Get easily jealous? |
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Have difficulty saying no? |
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Back stab friends? |
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Physically hurt themselves? |
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Feel depressed despite ‘having it all together’?
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Secret Scars : Uncovering and Understanding the Addiction of Self-Injury |
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Author: V.J. Truner
Publisher: Hazelden
ISBN: 1568389140
Description: V.
J. Turner is a pseudonym for a licensed clinical psychologist whose
academic credentials include a Ph.D. and a post-doctorate fellowship.
She has many years of experience working therapeutically with
adolescents and patients with addictive disorders. She has written and
published extensively, including academic journal articles, books, and
assessment instruments in the field of psychology. She has had
firsthand experience with self-injury before successfully recovering
over seven years ago.
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A Bright Red Scream |
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Author: Marilee Strong
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
ISBN: 0140280537
Description: "A
bright red scream" is how one of the subjects Marilee Strong interviews
in this chilling yet compassionate study of self-mutilation describes
the sensation of intentionally inflicting pain upon oneself. It is a
compulsion that, while shocking and bewildering to most people, affects
2 million or more Americans and countless others around the globe--one
of whom, the late Princess Diana, also suffered from the eating
disorders that characterize between 35 to 80 percent of all cutters.
Rejecting the classic psychiatric wisdom that views self-mutilation as
a species of suicidal behavior, Strong links the phenomenon instead to
the will to live--often in the face of such overwhelming childhood
abuse that the resulting dissociative behaviors are something akin to
posttraumatic stress disorder. Strong touches on other issues as well:
Why are most cutters women? And is the current fascination with
tattooing and piercing, from its most extreme forms in the
"alternative" culture to its growing mainstream acceptance, a
sublimation of the cutters' instinct? Through interviews with more than
50 self-injurers, Strong tells the moving story not only of their rage
and self-punishment, but also of the courageous journey towards
reintegration.
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The Scarred Soul: Understanding & Ending Self-Inflicted Violence |
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Author: Tracey Alderman
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
ISBN: 1572240792
Description: Written
for the victims of this addiction--and for mental health
professionals--The Scarred Soul explores the reasons behind this
behavior and shows how to overcome the psychological traps that lead to
self-destructive acts. Illustrations and charts.
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Blade Silver: Color me Scarred |
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Author: Melody Carson
Publisher: Th1nk Books
ISBN: 1576835359
Description: Ruth
Wallace knows she can only hide the scars on her arms for so long. Who
wears long sleeves all summer long? Cutting herself doesn't make Ruth's
problems disappear, but at least it helps her cope. Her dad is a
nightmare, her mother seems lost in a medicated dreamland, and her
brother Caleb can't handle their family life any more than she can.
Abby, one of Ruth's good friends, is getting suspicious. Fortunately,
Glen Collins hasn't noticed yet. But then again, he's a new student and
probably doesn't want to sound mean. Ruth needs to find some way, any
way, to heal her scars--the ones she hides and the ones she
can't--before something terrible happens.
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