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Understanding Self-Harm is a guide for parents, teachers, therapists or anyone who lives with, supports or provides therapy for people who self-harm. This book blows away the stigma and myths that are attached to this distressing behaviour. It explains fully and comprehensively what self-harm is really about and includes a step-by-step section on how people who self-harm should and can be supported and helped.
About the Author
Joan Freeman set up Pieta House due to a lack of services in the area of self-harm. She is a member of the Irish Association of Suicidology, the Psychological Society of Ireland and the British Psychological Society. She lives in Dublin.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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This short book provides a well-written, thoughtful, thought-provoking and accessible introduction to some of the issues influencing people's (and in particular children's) decisions to self-harm. The topic is difficult, as the evidence that someone you care about is self-harming can be horrifying and rather frightening to face. Joan Freeman generally succeeds in her attempts to help those dealing with the fact that someone they know feels the need to do something that is so contrary to natural human instincts towards self-preservation.
Freeman's study helps friends and family members (as well as support service workers) to see beyond the myth that self-harm must equate to being suicidal - it can be a 'cry for help', but can also be a coping mechanism... the physical actualisation of mental pain serving as a sort of pressure relief valve, but isn't usually direct evidence of suicidal thoughts - although the two do need to be confronted together.
The book looks not only at the factors behind the self-harming behaviours, but also at the impact the discovery of this can have on family relationships, and the kinds of questions that need to be asked about motivation.
The Kindle edition of this book is not particularly well presented: the formatting is rather messy, without clear breaks in the text at e.g. section and Chapter headings.
Freeman's study helps friends and family members (as well as support service workers) to see beyond the myth that self-harm must equate to being suicidal - it can be a 'cry for help', but can also be a coping mechanism... the physical actualisation of mental pain serving as a sort of pressure relief valve, but isn't usually direct evidence of suicidal thoughts - although the two do need to be confronted together.
The book looks not only at the factors behind the self-harming behaviours, but also at the impact the discovery of this can have on family relationships, and the kinds of questions that need to be asked about motivation.
The Kindle edition of this book is not particularly well presented: the formatting is rather messy, without clear breaks in the text at e.g. section and Chapter headings.
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This was an excellent book to try and help me understand why anyone would self harm . Someone very close to me used to self harm as a child before we knew her. She had kept it secret from when she married into the family four years ago, but a month ago she slashed her arms and was very matter of fact about it when she told me. I was horrified as she had done it in the house with her two year old gogeous daughter in the house with her, her husband was at work. I still do nort fully understand why, but I am way on the way to!!
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I half read this on a bookshelf while waiting for someone. I went back to the book until I read it all. Its close to the bone. Only those who have done self harm or know of someone will relate to it. It makes one look closer at people and listen better when they give excuses why they have bruises/cuts etc. Not a big works but focused..
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