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When Teens Self-Harm: How Parents, Teachers and Professionals Can Provide Calm and Compassionate Support
Supporting teens who self-harm can be stressful, with panic and anxiety muddying the waters and making it difficult to know how to respond. How do you help? What if you make it worse?
This book guides you through the potential reasons for self-harming behaviour, helping you to respond with compassion and support. Quotes from young people who self-harm give insight into the mindset behind the behaviour, while expert guidance gives you the tools to help. Advice on regulating your own emotions, combined with a better understanding of why teens self-harm, allows you to provide a safe, nurturing environment to support your young person and reduce their self-harming behaviour.
Grounded in the authors' extensive clinical experience in young people's mental health, this book guides you out of panic mode to create a secure, validating environment for teens who self-harm.
This book guides you through the potential reasons for self-harming behaviour, helping you to respond with compassion and support. Quotes from young people who self-harm give insight into the mindset behind the behaviour, while expert guidance gives you the tools to help. Advice on regulating your own emotions, combined with a better understanding of why teens self-harm, allows you to provide a safe, nurturing environment to support your young person and reduce their self-harming behaviour.
Grounded in the authors' extensive clinical experience in young people's mental health, this book guides you out of panic mode to create a secure, validating environment for teens who self-harm.
106 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 21, 2024
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May 29, 2024
4 stars.
it is a good book to start with if you had to come face to face with teen self-harming problem, be it your own child, a friend, a student in your class or professionally related interest.
The book is a short and easy read, and I read it in one sitting. It is easy to follow, yet it gives you a good idea of what self-harm is and possible reasons for it, how to react, and where to go for help. It is a brief and basic manual.
It is a book that i would mark as a must-read for every teen and every parent, not because you might encounter self-harm yourself, as a teen, or with your own kids, as a parent, but because it is something we should all be aware of. We should know the signs and we should know where and how to seek support, help and advise if we ever do come to face this problem.
It is both sad and frightening to see how many teens self harm and that the numbers grow annually.
I want to wish every self-harming teen every bit of strength and courage to overcome self-harming and to tell you: you are not alone! You can turn to your parents, your teacher, social worker, your family doctor, school psychologist, or a clinic nurse. Go to A&E, if nowhere else, ask for help.
You have nothing to be ashamed of! you are not a bad person, you are not a failure, you are not a "psycho", you are not a "weirdo"!! you just encountered something in your life that you find very difficult to handle and you don't know how else to manage your situation. Seek help and you will be helped!
And to the parents I want to say this: that we also need to support each other and our children. Teen years are wonderful, full of fun, full of opportunities and possibilities, they are so bright and interesting... But teen years are also so hard, full of pressure and fears, anxieties and worries, expectations and questions.... If we - as parents - are not sure how to handle the situation, we should seek help too. Meanwhile just remind your children that they are beautiful, wonderful, amazing and you always, always, always love them! They need to hear it more often.
it is a good book to start with if you had to come face to face with teen self-harming problem, be it your own child, a friend, a student in your class or professionally related interest.
The book is a short and easy read, and I read it in one sitting. It is easy to follow, yet it gives you a good idea of what self-harm is and possible reasons for it, how to react, and where to go for help. It is a brief and basic manual.
It is a book that i would mark as a must-read for every teen and every parent, not because you might encounter self-harm yourself, as a teen, or with your own kids, as a parent, but because it is something we should all be aware of. We should know the signs and we should know where and how to seek support, help and advise if we ever do come to face this problem.
It is both sad and frightening to see how many teens self harm and that the numbers grow annually.
I want to wish every self-harming teen every bit of strength and courage to overcome self-harming and to tell you: you are not alone! You can turn to your parents, your teacher, social worker, your family doctor, school psychologist, or a clinic nurse. Go to A&E, if nowhere else, ask for help.
You have nothing to be ashamed of! you are not a bad person, you are not a failure, you are not a "psycho", you are not a "weirdo"!! you just encountered something in your life that you find very difficult to handle and you don't know how else to manage your situation. Seek help and you will be helped!
And to the parents I want to say this: that we also need to support each other and our children. Teen years are wonderful, full of fun, full of opportunities and possibilities, they are so bright and interesting... But teen years are also so hard, full of pressure and fears, anxieties and worries, expectations and questions.... If we - as parents - are not sure how to handle the situation, we should seek help too. Meanwhile just remind your children that they are beautiful, wonderful, amazing and you always, always, always love them! They need to hear it more often.
May 31, 2026
This was a really good intro. It could have had a little bit more detail on structuring conversations, or scripting. Otherwise very useful and easy to understand.
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