When Teens Self-Harm: How Parents, Teachers and Professionals Can Provide Calm and Compassionate Support (Paperback) - Monika Parkinson

Based on many years' experience working with young people, this reassuring guide explores the individual and environmental reasons why teens self-harm and shows parents, carers, and teachers how to regulate their own responses. Advice on providing calm, validating support allows carers to help teens feel heard and reduce self-harming behaviour.

Supporting teens who self-harm can be stressful, with panic and anxiety muddying the waters and making it difficult to know how to respond. How do you help? What if you make it worse?

This book guides you through the potential reasons for self-harming behaviour, helping you to respond with compassion and support. Quotes from young people who self-harm give insight into the mindset behind the behaviour, while expert guidance gives you the tools to help. Advice on regulating your own emotions, combined with a better understanding of why teens self-harm, allows you to provide a safe, nurturing environment to support your young person and reduce their self-harming behaviour.

Grounded in the authors' extensive clinical experience in young people's mental health, this book guides you out of panic mode to create a secure, validating environment for teens who self-harm.

About the Author

Monika Parkinson (Author)
Dr Monika Parkinson is a clinical psychologist and researcher. She is co-author of Am I Depressed and What Can I Do About It?, Teenage Depression - A CBT Guide for Parents, Parent-led CBT for Child Anxiety, and Free From Panic.

Lucy Willetts (Author)
Dr Lucy Willetts is a clinical psychologist working in private practice. She is co-author of Can I Tell You About Anxiety?, Overcoming Your Child's Fears and Worries, Parent-led CBT for Child Anxiety, and Free From Panic.

Kerstin Thirlwall (Author)
Dr Kerstin Thirlwall is a clinical psychologist working in private practice. She is co-author of Parent-led CBT for Child Anxiety and Free From Panic.