Overcoming Self-harm
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Self-harm can feel like the only way to cope. But it doesn't have to be that way.
Struggling with urges to self-harm or overwhelmed by emotions you can't always name? This refreshingly honest guide is designed for teenagers navigating tough times - no matter how stuck you feel right now.
Inside, every chapter breaks things down without pressure. You'll find real accounts from young people whose journeys illuminate the many shapes that self-harm and recovery can take. Discover how triggers, thoughts and social media use connect, and start to recognise your own self-harm 'chain'. Learn how cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) tools, journalling, grounding and distraction techniques can build your personal toolkit to manage urge waves - even on your hardest days.
You won't find empty promises or calls to 'just stop.' Instead, you will learn to:
· Work out what matters most to you, and find practical ways to stick closer to your values
· Make your environment safer and your support network stronger
· Understand your emotions without judgement
· Identify your personal triggers, and build a recovery plan that actually works
OVERCOMING FOR TEENAGERS is a series to support young people through common mental health issues during adolescence, using scientific techniques that have been proven to work.
Series editor: Associate Professor Polly Waite
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Dr Lucy Taylor is a consultant clinical psychologist working in independent practice in Surrey, offering treatment for adolescents and young adults and supervision to mental health professionals. She worked for over twenty years in the NHS, including jointly heading up the National & Specialist Child and Adolescent Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) Service, Maudsley Hospital. She has co-written two editions of a CBT workbook for therapists treating young people who self-harm and delivers training and supervision of the programme to multi-disciplinary mental health professionals who work with adolescent self-harm.
Dr Mima Simic is a consultant child adolescent psychiatrist leading the Maudsley Centre for Child and Adolescent Eating Disorders. She was consultant for the Community Adolescent Mental Health Team and National & Specialist Child and Adolescent DBT Service, Maudsley Hospital for over a decade. She has researched treatments for self-harm in which she teaches and trains mental health professionals.
