Self-Injury - Connors, Robin E
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In this perceptive work, Dr. Robin Connors offers helpful guidelines to clinicians that will improve their capacity to respond in a direct, effective, and respectful way to people who self-injure. Key to this work is understanding the function of self-inflicted violence and its relationship to unresolved traumas and losses, including the role of trauma in disrupting the formation of the self-boundary. Dr. Connors identifies fundamental therapeutic tasks, gives clear examples of interventions, and offers concrete recommendations for interacting with patients about their self-injury.

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In this perceptive work, Dr. Robin Connors offers helpful guidelines to clinicians that will improve their capacity to respond in a direct, effective, and respectful way to people who self-injure. Key to this work is understanding the function of self-inflicted violence and its relationship to unresolved traumas and losses, including the role of trauma in disrupting the formation of the self-boundary. Dr. Connors identifies fundamental therapeutic tasks, gives clear examples of interventions, and offers concrete recommendations for interacting with patients about their self-injury.
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Robin E. Connors, Ph.D., a clinician and consultant in private practice in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is the co-author of Understanding Self-Injury: A Workbook for Adults. She has published extensively in professional journals, including her articles on self-injury in trauma survivors in the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. She was clinical supervisor at Pittsburgh Action Against Rape, consultant to Lakewood Hospital Psychiatric Hospital, teacher at Arsenal Family and Children's Center, and research assistant at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic. Dr. Connors has taught many training courses to therapists in diverse settings, practiced as a divorce mediator, edited a newsletter offering legal information to mental health professionals, and worked as a freelance writer. She currently specializes in work with women experiencing life transitions, trauma survivors, and couples.