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Understanding repeated self-injury : a multidisciplinary approach / Digby Tantam, Nick Huband.

By: Tantam, Digby.
Contributor(s): Huband, Nick.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009Description: xii, 235 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9781403936967; 140393696X; 9780230579392.Subject(s): Self-mutilation | Self-injurious behavior | Health and Wellbeing | Clinical & internal medicine | Clinical psychologyDDC classification: 616.8585 TAN
Contents:
The basic facts about self-injury -- Understanding the person who self-injures -- A unifying model based on the phenomenology of self-injury -- Overcoming self-injury: working hard at recovery -- Moulds and matrices --- Challenges for the carer -- First professional responses to self-injury -- Recovery -- Summary and conclusions.
Summary: Informative and insightful, this text explores the nature of self-injury and the experience of those who injure themselves. Covering psychological and physical aspects, the text draws on research, theory and the authors' clinical experience to present a unifying model for practice.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-229) and index.

The basic facts about self-injury -- Understanding the person who self-injures -- A unifying model based on the phenomenology of self-injury -- Overcoming self-injury: working hard at recovery -- Moulds and matrices --- Challenges for the carer -- First professional responses to self-injury -- Recovery -- Summary and conclusions.

Informative and insightful, this text explores the nature of self-injury and the experience of those who injure themselves. Covering psychological and physical aspects, the text draws on research, theory and the authors' clinical experience to present a unifying model for practice.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • List of Figures and Tables (p. vi)
  • List of Text Boxes (p. vii)
  • Preface (p. viii)
  • Acknowledgements (p. xii)
  • 1 The Basic Facts about Self-Injury (p. 1)
  • 2 Understanding the Person Who Self-Injures (p. 15)
  • 3 A Unifying Model Based on the Phenomenology of Self-Injury (p. 26)
  • 4 Overcoming Self-Injury: Working Hard at Recovery (p. 65)
  • 5 Moulds and Matrices (p. 82)
  • 6 Challenges for the Carer (p. 101)
  • 7 First Professional Responses to Self-Injury (p. 133)
  • 8 Recovery (p. 162)
  • 9 Summary and Conclusions (p. 191)
  • Appendix - Self-Help Resources (p. 209)
  • Notes (p. 212)
  • References (p. 213)
  • Index (p. 230)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

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. He is also Deputy Director of the New School of Psychotherapy and counselling, Schiller International University; an honorary consultant psychiatrist and psychotherapist for Sheffield Health and Social Care Foundation NHS Trust; and a director of Dilemma Consultancy Ltd.
Nick Huband is Clinical Research Fellow at Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust and an honorary research fellow at the University of Nottingham, UK.