| Description |
xi, 186 pages ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Abnormal psychology |
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Abnormal psychology (Westport, Conn.)
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| Contents |
1. Self-injury on the rampage -- 2. Special populations, special concerns : teenagers most at risk -- 3. Developmental challenges in adolescence : the agony, the ecstasy, the cell phone, and the Internet -- 4. Why teens self-injure : doing all the wrong things for the right reasons -- 5. Laying the foundation for intervention : composure, compassion, and comprehension -- 6. Professional treatment of self-injury : understanding the therapeutic process -- 7. Specialized approaches and adjuncts in treating self-injury -- 8. The brain as an attitude pharmacy : neurochemical roles and remedies in self-injury -- 9. Intervention in action : how it works -- 10. Stepping up to the plate : how parents can help -- 11. Health and happiness are verbs : the responsibilities of the adolescent in treatment -- 12. Depathologizing adolescent self-injury : cutting on a continuum |
| Summary |
"In this book, Plante features the stories of self-injurers and helps the reader understand the meaning of the injuries and how to help teens stop. This author, who is a psychologist, a parent, and a Stanford University Medical School faculty member, explains in clear detail how cutters and the adults who love them can heal the pain and stop self-injury. She describes the frightening developmental tasks that teenagers and young adults face, and how the central challenges of the three I's (Independence, Intimacy, and Identity) compel them to cope through self-destructive acts. Readers will feel as if they are in the therapy room with Plante and these struggling teenagers as they seek to overcome their internal pain and that desperate need to cut and self-injure."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Adolescent psychology.
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Cutting (Self-mutilation)
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Self-mutilation in adolescence.
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Self-mutilation.
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| LC no. |
2006038640 |
| ISBN |
0275990621 (hbk.) |
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9780275990626 (hbk.) |
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