Informational Resources || Online Support || Publications

Understanding Self-Harm

Overview of Self-Injury, Self-Mutilation
This website defines and provides general information about Self-Mutilation and Self-Injury.

Self-Injury: You are NOT the only one
Directed to students or any individuals with self-harm issues, this website contains references, family/friend testimonies and self-assessment measures.

Youth Suicide Prevention Program (YSPP) Frequently Asked Questions
The YSPP FAQs on self-harm prevention. You may direct family members or friends of people who self-harm to this website.

Online Support

Self-Harm.org
Life Signs: Self-Injury Guidance & Network Support is a UK non-profit website with many online resources about Self-injury. It contains message boards, online support for family members and friends, a newsletter and many others.

Suicide in Youth
Substantial information on suicide is provided, including statistics on suicide in teens, identifying risks, causes and prevention of teen suicide.

Publications

A Closer Look at Self-Harm by the Center For Prevention of Suicide
.pdf file

Helping Those Who Hurt Themselves, by Tracy Alderman
Online article (here) providing different tips about ways to therapeutically help individuals who self-harm.

Healing the Hurt Within: Understand and Relieve the Suffering Behind Self-Destructive Behaviour by Jan Sutton
How to Books Ltd; ISBN: 1857032993

Self-Mutilation: Theory, Research & Treatment by Barent W. Walsh & Paul M. Rosen
Guilford Press; ISBN: 0898627311

Self-Harm: A Psychotherapeutic Approach by Fiona Gardner
Brunner-Routledge; ISBN: 0415233038

Self-Injury: Psychotherapy with People Who Engage in Self-Inflicted Violence by Sharon Klayman Farber
Jason Aronson; ISBN: 0765702649

 

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