num_pages: 128
description: This book provides a collection of strategies and activities to help children and adolescents who deliberately self-injure. A variety of hands-on creative arts approaches are featured that can be used in private practice and school settings. When working with youth who self-injure it is helpful to have a variety of creative approached at your fingertips. The approaches and activities in this book can be used with individuals or with a small group. The activities help children/adolescents to express their feelings, understand why they self-injure, engage in a healing process, explore new methods of coping and prevention, and find new meaning and purpose in their lives. This book provides a description of self-mutilation in young people and its underlying causes. Then, an overview of therapeutic approaches is presented along with suggestions for the professional counselor/social worker/psychologist, teachers and parents. Sample assessment questions and activities are included. The following 15 strategies with activities are reproducibles are - Crucial Communication Skills- Personal Strength Coaching- Visual Arts- Sand Tray- Story Telling- Creative Dramatics- Prayer Power- Clay- Creative Journaling- Relaxation/Guided Imagery- Metaphors- Music- Tactile Diversion- Animals and Nature- Mentoring
language: English
title: See My Pain! Creative Strategies and Activities for Helping Young People Who Self-Injure
titlecomplete: See My Pain! Creative Strategies and Activities for Helping Young People Who Self-Injure
genres: Counselling
ratings_count: 15
publisher: YouthLight, Inc.