TEENAGE SUICIDE & SELF-HARM TRAINING PACK with audio CD
John Coleman, TSA 2004
will aid interactive training and group discussions...a good start to open up a growing field within mental health that is at last increasing in public awareness."
Young People Now
It is based on inteviews with young people, parents, friends and workers in the field, and offers five sets of training exercises. These cover:
- understanding suicide and self-harm
- recognising risk in relation to suicide and self-harm
- responding to self-harm behaviour
- working with family and friends
- the impact on the professional
Each training exercise takes in the region of 2 hours to complete and the material includes ideas for further work, and a resource list. The pack is accompanied by an audio CD which contains the full transcript of all the interviews.
ISBN: 978 1871504 538
YOUNG PEOPLE: SUICIDE & SELF-HARM
Dorothy Eddi Piper, TSA 2002
This invaluable resource brings together information from research and clinical practice and is written for those who work with young people who may be suicidal or self-harming. It includes: Information; Recognising risk; Strategies for helping; supporting those affected; Useful organisations and a Booklist.
This brief guide deals with complex, taboo, emotive issues in a supportively authoritative manner. The text conveys respect, compassion and a very responsible attitude to young people, friends and relatives, workers and supervisors. Without being prescriptive it gives sold therapeutic strategies, risk assessment checklists, useful organisations and an up-to-date bibliography.
Raymond Simpson, Chartered Educational Psychologist, Family Therapist, Counselling Trainer and Supervisor
25pp ISBN 978 1871504 477
SELF-HARM: YOUNG PEOPLE SPEAKING OUT
Sheffield City Council Women's Committee, TSA 2001
SET OF 4 BOOKLETS ISBN: 978 1871504 651
Also available in single copies Price: £4.00 Code: YPSO
BEYOND FEAR AND CONTROL
Working with Young People who Self-Harm.
PCCS Books, Edited by Helen Spandler and Sam Warner
This is the most refreshing book on self-harm that I have read for a long time.
Young People Now
This book is about supporting young people who use self-harm as a way of coping with distress. It brings together practitioners, activists and service users from a wide range of contexts who have developed new and innovative ways of helping young people who self-harm. These include group work, work in prisons, counselling, housing support etc.
