Addresses many issues and gives practical information about self-harm
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This book is split into three sections - `Working Alongside Young People', `Abuse, Oppression and Self-Harm', and `Strategies of Survival'. Each section consists of four chapters, all of which look at different aspects of self-injury, and are written by a diverse selection of authors including service users, and a variety of healthcare professionals.
The books was commissioned by 42nd Street with the aim of showing how useful it is to work with young people who self-injure using a young-person-centred approach. Many different areas are addressed - listening to the voices of people who self-injure, informal support, group-work, issues of sexual and racial abuse, dissociation, BPD and unhelpful labelling, the law surrounding self-injury, young people in prisons, and harm minimisation - and some extremely interesting information is provided.
The book will be a useful resource to healthcare professionals and those supporting people who self-injure. It is also a useful book for anyone wishing to further their knowledge of self-injury, particularly academics. Rather than simply focusing on the facts about self-injury, practical information about ways to really help people who self-injure is given - this is invaluable!
Some of the descriptions of self-injury in the book do tend to be a bit graphic. I also felt that there was a bit too much emphasis on the National Self-Harm Network (NSHN) throughout without acknowledging other sources of information available.
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