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| Author(s): | B. Walsh |
| Publisher: | Guildford Press |
| ISBN: | 1593852169 |
| Format: | hardback |
| 317pp | |
| Price: | £25.00 |
| Review Date: | 10 April 2006 |
| Review: | This book provides a series of practical suggestions for understanding, managing, and treating people who self-harm. Common examples of self-injury include scratching and cutting of the wrists, arms and legs; self-inflicted burns; excoriation of wounds; self-hitting; and self-biting. The first part of the book describes self-injury, distinguishing it from suicide. The second, and main part, of the book, discusses assessment and treatment, illustrated by numerous case examples. A biopsychological model is used to explain self-injury, and the assessment and treatment techniques recommended include psychopharmacological and cognitive behavioural forms of intervention. The third and final section of the book focuses on several specialized topics: contagious or epidemic self-injury; and treatment of ‘major’ self-injury, including acts that involve extensive tissue damage and/or injury to the face, eyes or genitals. |