Safe With Self-Injury: A Practical Guide to Understanding, Responding and Harm-Reduction - Couverture souple

Inckle, Kay

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1910919160 ISBN 13 : 9781910919163

Editeur : PCCS Books, 2017

Synopsis

This book is an essential resource for anyone who has a supporting role or relationship with someone who hurts themself, whether in a professional or informal context. It is also a useful resource for people who self-injure, to help them to explore their experiences and to keep themselves safe. Based on interviews with people who self-injure and frontline practitioners and service managers who work with them, it explores why people self-injure, debunks myths and misconceptions about self-injury, explains self-injury in the contexts of human embodiment and a social model approach to distress and illness, and offers practical strategies for responding in meaningful ways, including using creative practices and harm-reduction. A final chapter offers guidance on how to write a harm-reduction policy for self-injury that can be used across any health, education and social services setting. This is an essential book that promotes better understanding and thus better responses to self-injury, brought to life with the words of people with first-hand experience of self-injury, for whom it is, or has been, an important coping mechanism. The book closes with a short account of Zest, a voluntary sector organisation in Northern Ireland, whose success with people who self-injure demonstrates what the guidance in this book looks like when put into practice, and that it really does work.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Dr Kay Inckle is a course convener in the sociology of health and medicine at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She worked as a service provider in a range of health and social care contexts, supporting both adults and young people. From 2009-2012 she ran a self-injury training service delivering programmes based on a holistic and harm-reduction approach to self-injury. She has published widely in the field, including her previous book Flesh Wounds? New Ways of Understanding Self-Injury (PCCS Books, 2010).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: PCCS Books
• Date d'édition: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1910919160
• ISBN 13: 9781910919163
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 274
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible