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Safe with Self-Injury: A practical guide to understanding, responding and harm-reduction
Kay Inckle
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Description for Safe with Self-Injury: A practical guide to understanding, responding and harm-reduction
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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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
PCCS Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
274
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781910919163
SKU
V9781910919163
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-2
About Kay Inckle
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Safe with Self-Injury: A practical guide to understanding, responding and harm-reduction
'This book is an excellent contemporary account of self-injury and approaches to supporting people who self-injure. The book will be an invaluable resource for anyone working in the field.' Hilary Lindsay, Director, Self-injury Support, Bristol; 'This is an immensely useful text that carefully combines sociological insights with practical advice on responding well to self-injury. The book provides a broad basis ... Read more