Kay Inckle

Safe with Self-Injury (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A practical guide to harm-reduction for anyone who has a supporting role with someone who hurts themselves, in a professional or informal context. A useful resource for people who self-injure. It explores why people self-injure, debunks myths, considers a social model approach to distress and offers practical strategies for responding meaningfully.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: PCCS Books
• Seitenzahl: 247
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Januar 2017
• ISBN-13: 9781910919170
• Artikelnr.: 72469322

Autorenporträt

Dr Kay Inckle is a course convener in the sociology of health and medicine at the London School of Economics and Political Science. For a number of years she worked as a service-provider in a range of health and social care contexts supporting both adults and young people, and these experiences inspired her PhD and post-doctoral research. From 2009-2012 she ran a self-injury training service which specialized in delivering programmes based on a holistic and harm-reduction approach to self-injury. She remains passionate about transforming attitudes and practice around self-injury and she has a number of publications in the field including her previous book with PCCS books "Flesh Wounds? New Ways of Understanding Self-Injury".

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Self-injury essentials: understanding before intervention
2. Embodying distress: the functions of self-injury
3. The inner world: what is it like being you?
4. A social model: context is everything
5. Responding helpfully: embodied and social interventions
6. Staying safe: harm-reduction
7. Policy: making best practice happen
8. Going the distance