Packed with adolescents' own personal accounts and perspectives, this accessible overview will be essential reading for teachers, social workers and mental health professionals.
Self-harm in adolescents is an increasingly recognized problem, and there is growing awareness of the important role schools and health services can play in detecting and supporting those at risk. By Their Own Young Hand explores the findings of the first large-scale survey of d…
Examines the causes and consequences of five self-destructive behaviors in teens, offers treatment options, and identifies less-risky alternatives that support teenagers' independence seeking goals.
Examines the causes and consequences of five self-destructive behaviors in teens, offers treatment options, and identifies less-risky alternatives that support teenagers' independence seeking goals.
A study of the growing epidemic of suicide among young people draws on the author's firsthand battle with severe manic-depression and attempted suicide to reveal the psychological, medical, and biological aspects of self-influcted death.
From the author of the best-selling memoir An Unquiet Mind, comes the first major book in a quarter century on suicide, and its terrible pull on the young in particular. Night Falls Fast is tragically timely: suicide has become one of the most common killers of Americans between…
