Every year thousands of children and young people attend emergency department with problems resulting from self harm. More still come to the attention of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services teams, school nurses and other community based services as. Helping Children and …
Nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) is the deliberate damaging of one's own body in the absence of any intent to die. Although reports of this behavior span centuries, reported instances of NSSI have increased dramatically over the past 20 years. This authoritative book provides new …
Designed to help clinicians, people who self-harm and their families and carers to understand its causes, meaning and treatment, this book explores unconscious meanings for self-harming and the sense in which it is a language of the body.
