Understanding Repeated Self-Injury: A Multidisciplinary Approach - Softcover

Tantam, Digby

 
9781403936967: Understanding Repeated Self-Injury: A Multidisciplinary Approach
Softcover
ISBN 10: 140393696X ISBN 13: 9781403936967
Verlag: Palgrave, 2009

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Self-wounding is surprisingly common with one in every 600 people wounding themselves sufficiently to receive hospital treatment. This concise and informed introduction is written primarily as a resource for health care professionals and explores both why people hurt themselves and the impact of their behaviour on others. Covering both the psychological and physical aspects of repeated self-wounding, the book presents the latest research evidence and uses engaging case examples. Therapeutic options are discussed. The book also addresses some of the difficulties professionals, family and friends experience when seeking to provide treatment and care.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

DIGBY TANTAM is Clinical Professor of Psychotherapy and co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Conflict and Reconciliation at the University of Sheffield, UK.

NICK HUBAND is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham, UK, and Clinical Research Fellow of the Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust.

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Why do some people repeatedly injure themselves? How common is this form of self-harm? How can professionals offer appropriate intervention and support to those whose lives are troubled by it, either directly or indirectly? This authoritative and systematic book adopts a holistic approach to the problem of repeated self-injury and the difficult emotions and experiences that it gives
rise to.

Bringing together theory, research and a wealth of case vignettes, Understanding Repeated Self-Injury examines both the psychological and physical aspects of self-injury. The authors explain how deliberate cutting or burning of the skin is used by many as a way to overcome and temporarily escape bad feeling and thus transcend the limits of their identity.

In particular, the book
- presents a unifying model for theory and practice, based on the phenomenology of self-injury
- examines the important role of identity and dissociation in perpetuating self-injury
- considers the wider impact of self-injury on family and friends, and on staff
- addresses treatment strategies and self-help resources.

Each chapter draws on the authors' considerable clinical experience across a range of contexts, and is written with professionals and trainees particularly in mind. This book is an essential introduction and indispensable resource for those working, or considering to work, in counselling, therapeutic and health care settings where they are or might be confronted with the complexities of self-injury.

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Verlag
Palgrave
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
140393696X
ISBN 13 
9781403936967
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
248
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