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Hundreds of thousands of women self-mutilate, yet very little is known about the reasons for this widespread phenomenon or the experience of self-harming itself. Now, this powerful and accessible book gathers together the personal testimonies of a broad range of women who self-mutilate, explores the causes and effects of self-harming behavior and offers strategies for understanding, overcoming and healing from self-mutilation.

Self-mutilation. --- Women --- Automutilation --- Self-harm (Self-mutilation) --- Self-injurious behavior (Self-mutilation) --- Self-injury (Self-mutilation) --- Malingering --- Mutilation --- Self-destructive behavior --- Mental health. --- Health and hygiene --- Psychology

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This book explores several topics pertaining to suicide and deliberate self-harm in the corrections setting, including who tends to commit these acts; where, when, and how these incidents occur; screening mechanisms; the role of environmental stimuli in facilitating or preventing acts of self harm; interpersonal relations among inmates and between inmates and staff; the role of the courts in setting and ruling on suicide prevention policies; and diversion and re-entry plans for offenders.

Prisoners --- Suicide --- Self-mutilation --- Automutilation --- Self-harm (Self-mutilation) --- Self-injurious behavior (Self-mutilation) --- Self-injury (Self-mutilation) --- Malingering --- Mutilation --- Self-destructive behavior --- Convicts --- Correctional institutions --- Imprisoned persons --- Incarcerated persons --- Prison inmates --- Inmates of institutions --- Persons --- Suicidal behavior --- Prevention. --- Inmates

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"Picturing myself dying in a way I choose myself seems so comforting, healing and heroic. I'd look at my wrists, watch the blood seeping, and be a spectator in my last act of self-determination. By having lost all my self-respect it seems like the last pride I own, determining the time I die."-Kyra V., seventeenReading the confessions of a teenager contemplating suicide is uncomfortable, but we must do so to understand why self-harm has become epidemic, especially in the United States. What drives teenagers to self-harm? What makes death so attractive, so liberating, and so inevitable for so many? In Teenage Suicide Notes, sociologist Terry Williams pores over the writings of a diverse group of troubled youths to better grasp the motivations behind teenage suicide and to humanize those at risk of taking their own lives.Williams evaluates young people in rural and urban contexts and across lines of race, class, gender, and sexual orientation. His approach, which combines sensitive portrayals with sociological analysis, adds a clarifying dimension to the fickle and often frustrating behavior of adolescents. Williams reads between the lines of his subjects' seemingly straightforward reflections on alienation, agency, euphoria, and loss, and investigates how this cocktail of emotions can lead to suicide-or not. Rather than treating these notes as exceptional examples of self-expression, Williams situates them at the center of teenage life, linking them to abuse, violence, depression, anxiety, religion, peer pressure, sexual identity, and family dynamics. He captures the currents that turn self-destruction into an act of self-determination and proposes more effective solutions to resolving the suicide crisis.

Teenagers --- Adolescent psychology --- Self-mutilation --- Self-destructive behavior --- Self-destructiveness --- Psychology, Pathological --- Automutilation --- Self-harm (Self-mutilation) --- Self-injurious behavior (Self-mutilation) --- Self-injury (Self-mutilation) --- Malingering --- Mutilation --- Suicidal behavior

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Nonsuicidal Self-Injury moves beyond the basics to tackle the clinical and conceptual complexity of NSSI, with an emphasis on recent advances in both science and practice. Directed towards clinicians, researchers, and others wishing to advance their understanding of NSSI, this volume reviews and synthesizes recent empirical findings that clarify NSSI as a theoretical and clinical condition, as well as the latest efforts to assess, treat, and prevent NSSI. With expertly written chapters by leaders in the field, this is an essential guide to a disorder about which much is still to be known.

Self-injurious behavior --- Self-mutilation --- Automutilation --- Self-harm (Self-mutilation) --- Self-injurious behavior (Self-mutilation) --- Self-injury (Self-mutilation) --- Malingering --- Mutilation --- Self-destructive behavior --- SIB (Behavior disorder) --- Stereotyped behavior (Psychiatry)

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This is a practical guide for professionals on understanding and responding to self-harm in children and adolescents. It includes information about what self-harm is and who is likely to self-harm, and provides practical advice on how to identify self-harm, how to respond and intervene, and how to support the child or young person.

Self-mutilation. --- Adolescent psychology. --- Child psychology. --- Behavior, Child --- Child behavior --- Child study --- Children --- Pediatric psychology --- Child development --- Developmental psychology --- Adolescence --- Teenagers --- Psychology --- Automutilation --- Self-harm (Self-mutilation) --- Self-injurious behavior (Self-mutilation) --- Self-injury (Self-mutilation) --- Malingering --- Mutilation --- Self-destructive behavior