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2) Self injury
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"We must understand that in the trauma survivor, self injury is functional. It always performs some deep, underlying function. Most generally, it's an attempt to ward off worse harm." David Calof. A client's self mutilating behavior can be extremely challenging for the therapist. This video series discusses the range of traumatic causes of self mutilation, and the forms that it takes, as well as interventions that can provide more adaptive responses....
3) Self-injury
Author
Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Discusses self-mutilation and other self-harmful behavior, including why some individuals harm themselves, the risks of self-injury, and how to treat and prevent it.
Author
Publisher
Guilford Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Overview: Discovering that your teen "cuts" is absolutely terrifying; before you understand what really motivates cutting, you may worry your child is contemplating suicide. What can you do to help when every attempt to address the behavior seems to push him or her further away? In this compassionate, straightforward book, Dr. Michael Hollander, a leading authority on self-injury, spells out the facts about cutting-and what to do to make it stop....
7) Cut
Author
Language
English
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Description
While confined to a mental hospital, thirteen-year-old Callie slowly comes to understand some of the reasons behind her self-mutilation, and gradually starts to get better.
Author
Publisher
Chicken House/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Tamar is admitted to Lime Grove, a psychiatric ward for teenagers, where the psychologists ask her endless questions. How did the self-harming start? Will you tell us what happened? How do you feel, on a scale of one to ten? But there's one question Tamar can't - won't - answer: What happened to her friend Iris? A uniquely powerful, devastating novel of friendship, fragility and forgiveness. Contains scenes of suicide and self-harm that some readers...
Author
Publisher
Instant Help Books, an imprint of New Harbinger Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
If you self-harm, you should know that you aren't alone. There are lots of reasons people turn to self-harming behaviors; whether you do control in your life, or just feel something -- anything -- other than numb, there are safer and healthier ways to find emotional relief. This workbook can help. With this powerful and compassionate workbook as your guide, you'll learn how to work through difficult thoughts and feelings, find relief from emotional...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old Lily Larkin's older sister, Alice, begins to struggle with her mental health, Lily attempts to keep everything together and perfect, despite her own growing anxiety.
Three months ago Lily found her older sister Alice hurting herself. She has been desperately trying to keep things together, for herself and for her family. But now Alice is coming home from her treatment program and it is becoming harder for Lily to ignore her...
Author
Series
Publisher
Rosen YA
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
This guide provides self-care tips as well as advice on how to help a loved one who suffers from depression. Readers will learn to recognize self-harming tendencies, understand the connections between suicide and self-harm, and learn strategies for coping with depression.
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Mia is officially a Troubled Teen--she gets bad grades, drinks too much, and has probably gone too far with too many guys. But she doesn't realize how out of control she seems until she is taken from her home in the middle of the night and sent away to Red Oak Academy, a therapeutic girls' boarding school in the middle of nowhere. While there, Mia is forced to confront her painful past at the same time she questions why she's at Red Oak. If she were...
13) Sharp objects
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A reporter confronts the psychological demons from her past when she returns to her hometown to cover a violent murder.
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Brutal, deeply unsettling, and often hilarious stories from a master of modern horror comics. Flayed Corpse and Other Stories contains more than two dozen of examples of Simmons's deft voice and vision. The individual stories in Flayed Corpse stand on their own as minimasterpieces of skin-crawling terror, but collectively complement each other in a way that only heightens the anxiety and dread pouring from page to page. Flayed Corpse also collects...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Crippled with guilt after causing a horrific accident two years earlier, sixteen-year-old Bett's life is a series of pluses and minuses. But when the pluses become too much to outweigh the minuses, Bett is forced to confront her self-harming behavior"--
17) Girl in pieces
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Language
English
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Description
Charlotte Davis is in pieces. At seventeen she's already lost more than most people lose in a lifetime. But she's learned how to forget. The thick glass of a mason jar cuts deep, and the pain washes away the sorrow until there is nothing but calm. You don't have to think about your father and the river. Your best friend, who is gone forever. Or your mother, who has nothing left to give you. Every new scar hardens Charlie's heart just a little more,...
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"How do you know if you're on the verge of a nervous breakdown? For seventeen-year-old Stacy Black, it all begins with the smashing of a window. After putting her fist through the glass, she checks into a mental hospital. Stacy hates it there but despite herself slowly realizes she has to face the reasons for her depression to stop from self-destructing. Based on the author's experiences, How I Made it to Eighteen is a frank portrait of what it's...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
-- With contributions by:Mercedes Acosta * Karen Jialu Bao * James Bird * Rocky Callen * Nora Shalaway Carpenter * Alechia Dow * Patrick Downes * Anna Drury * Nikki Grimes * Val Howlett * Jonathan Lenore Kastin * Sonia Patel * Marcella Pixley * Isabel Quintero * Ebony Stewart * Francisco X. Stork
20) Scorsese shorts
Series
Criterion collection volume 1030
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"This complilation of five early short films by Martin Scorsese offers a fascinating window onto his artistic development. Spanning the years from Scorsese's time at NYU in the mid-1960s to the late '70s, when he was emerging as one of the era's most electrifying talents. Scorsese Shorts centers on the intimate home movie Italianamerican--a loving snapshot of the director's parents--and American Boy, a freewheeling portrait of a larger-than-life raconteur....
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