Presents the personal testimonies of a broad range of women who self-multilate, explores the causes and effects of self-harming behavior, and offers strategies for understanding, overcoming, and healing from self-mutilation. Softcover. DLC: Self--mutilation.
Cover Up: Understanding Self-Harm
β Scribed by Joan Freeman
- Publisher
- Veritas Publications Ltd
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Cover Up: Understanding Self-HarmΒ is a guide for parents, teachers, therapists or anyone who lives with, supports or provides therapy for people who self-harm.
This book blows away the stigma and myths that are attached to this distressing behaviour. It explains fully and comprehensively what self-harm is really about and includes a step-by-step section on how people who self-harm should and can be supported and helped.
β¦ Subjects
Psychology; Nonfiction; PSY000000
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