Adolescent Self-Injury: a Comprehensive Guide for Counselors and Health Care Professionals. Amelio D’Onofrio, $63.50

In this truly comprehensive guide, Dr. D'Onofrio approaches the topic of how first-responders, such as teachers, coaches, social workers, guidance counselors, and campus health counselors, can and do treat adolescent self-injury. Each part of the book focuses on a basic topic, such as what constitutes self-injury, the foundations for self-injury, and how to engage an adolescent with these issues. Each issue is presented in straightforward chapters that are immediately accessible to those who are currently struggling to address this growing trend among teens. The chapters within each part delve into how to recognize, treat, and approach this illness and incorporate first-person stories from psychologists, teachers, and adolescents themselves.

The Adolescent & Young Adult Self-Harming Treatment Manual: a Collaborative Strengths-Based Brief Therapy Approach. Mathew Selekman, $42.50

This is a practical and informative manual that will help both experienced and beginning therapists feel more confident and competent working with adolescent and young self-harming clients.

After a Parent’s Suicide: Helping Children Heal. Margo Requarth, $16.95

After a Parent’s Suicide is a compassionate guide for parent survivors on how to manage both the immediate and the long-term implications of the suicide; how to talk to your children and how to see them through the anguish to a place of healing, acceptance and life.

After the Storm: Healing after Trauma, Tragedy and Terror. Kendall Johnson, $19.50

Kendall Johnson calls this the 'New Age of Anxiety.' Today we are all challenged with the continual threat of war, terrorism, job loss, and political uncertainty. How do we cope? What actions can we take to best respond to personal and social crises? How do we help our children or the children in our care? How can we reestablish meaning in our lives? After the Storm shows people how to manage their emotional reactions in an emergency, stabilize those around them and, in time, work through the lasting effects of crisis.

• Part I helps readers to understand the scope of human reaction to overwhelming events.
• Part II explains how the brain deals with shock, how to understand delayed and complex reactions to trauma, and how to recognize symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
• Part III is devoted to self-care. It contains an overview of techniques and suggestions for handling anger, anxiety, extreme grief, withdrawal behavior and numbing.
• Part IV takes you beyond managing symptoms. The meaning of the event is explored, particularly as it affects who you are and where you are going.

Also included is a 20-page appendix which gives instructions for caring for yourself and your family emotionally during and after a traumatic event.

After the Suicide: Helping the Bereaved to Find a Path from Grief to Recovery. Kari Dyregrov, Einar Plyhn & Gudrun Dieserud, $31.95

Those left behind in the wake of suicide are often plagued by unanswered questions and feelings of guilt. Helping them to understand why the suicide happened, how suicide survivors commonly react and cope, and where they can find support can help them move forwards on their path from grief to recovery.

Drawing on the testimonies of suicide survivors and research into suicide bereavement, this book provides those working with the bereaved with the knowledge and guidance they need. It covers common grief and crisis reactions, including those specific to children and young people, how suicide bereavement differs from other forms of bereavement, and how others have coped and been supported. This book will be invaluable to all those supporting those who have been bereaved by suicide, including counsellors, bereavement support workers, social workers, and psychologists.

Ask Me: 30 Things I Want You to Know - How to Be a Friend to a Survivor of Suicide. Nan Zastrow, $6.75

30 things you should know about supporting the family and friends who have lost someone to suicide.

Bleeding to Ease the Pain: Cutting, Self-Injury and the Adolescent Search for Self. Lori Plante, $22.95

Cutting and other forms of self-injury are often cries for help, pleas for someone to notice that the pain is too much to bear. Cutting represents a rapidly spreading method for teens hoping to ease emotional pain and suffering and it can also be a dramatic means of communicating, controlling, and asking for help from others. Plante describes the frightening developmental tasks teenagers and young adults face, and how the central challenges of independence, intimacy, and identity compel them to cope through self-destructive acts. Readers will come to a better understanding of these struggling teenagers and the dramatic methods they employ to ease and overcome their internal pain through a desperate need to cut and self-injure.

Bloodletting: a Memoir of Secrets, Self-Harm & Survival. Victoria Leatham, $19.95

On the outside, she appears to have it all. She's creative, beautiful, and confident. But inside Victoria Leatham struggles with silent, secret, and unbearable pain. In her late teens, Leatham is struck with an undeniable urge to cut herself. Oddly, the wounds she inflicts on herself mute the pain she feels inside. This memoir, a darkly humorous and often chilling account, vividly details Leatham's ordeal and reveals her most intimate thoughts as she struggles with cutting and a range of other psychological problems including eating disorders, sexual promiscuity, substance abuse, and bipolar disorder. And finally, it describes her discovery of the psychological secret that helps her escape from this spiral of self-destruction.

A Bright Red Scream: Self-Mutilation and the Language of Pain. Marilee Strong, $22.00

Mistakenly viewed as suicide attempts or senseless masochism — even by many health professionals — "cutting" is actually a complex means of coping with emotional pain. Marilee Strong explores this hidden epidemic through case studies, startling new research from psychologists, trauma experts, and neuroscientists, and the heartbreaking insights of cutters themselves who range from troubled teenagers to middle-age professionals to grandparents. Strong explains what factors lead to self-mutilation, why cutting helps people manage overwhelming fear and anxiety, and how cutters can heal both their internal and external wounds and break the self-destructive cycle. A Bright Red Scream is a groundbreaking, essential resource for victims of self-mutilation, their families, teachers, doctors, and therapists.

By Their Own Young Hand: Deliberate Self-Harm and Suicidal Ideas in Adolescents. Keith Hawton & Karen Rodham, $34.95

Self-harm in adolescents is an increasingly recognized problem, and there is growing awareness of the important role schools and health services can play in detecting and supporting those at risk. By Their Own Young Hand explores the findings of the first large-scale survey of deliberate self-harm and suicidal thinking in adolescents in the UK, and draws out the implications for prevention strategies and mental health promotion.

Child and Adolescent Suicidal Behavior: School-Based Prevention, Assessment, and Intervention. David Miller, $33.95

Meeting a crucial need, this book distills the best current knowledge on child and adolescent suicide prevention into comprehensive guidelines for school-based practitioners. The author draws on extensive research and clinical experience to provide best-practice recommendations for developing school-wide prevention programs, conducting risk assessments, and intervening at different levels of intensity with students at risk. Also presented are post-intervention procedures for responding effectively if a suicide does occur. Legal and ethical issues are addressed in detail.

A Comprehensive Guide to Suicidal Behaviours: Working with Individuals at Risk and Their Families. David Aldridge & Sergio Pérez Barrero, $38.95

Taking an interdisciplinary approach that looks at the person at risk, the family and personal relationships they have and the communities in which they are embedded, this book will help anyone working with suicidal individuals to prevent this major cause of death.

Backed up by research and clinical expertise the book clarifies the facts about suicide and debunks the many unfounded myths surrounding the subject. It covers the classifications and manifestations of suicide, as well as the major risk factors, at-risk groups and warning signs. Advice on effective communication and a repertoire of strategies for distress management are offered, not only for supporting at-risk individuals and those who have survived a suicide attempt, but also families coping with bereavement. A final chapter explores the impact of the internet and the digital age on both the propagation and prevention of suicide.

This book will be essential reading for anybody working with people at risk of suicide, including clinicians, therapists, psychologists, social and healthcare workers and volunteers working in suicide prevention.

Cutting and Self Injury: Straight Talk. Rachel Eagen, $11.50 (grades 5-10)

Self-injury is not something people talk about very often. Yet, it is a reality for millions of young people across North America. This book deals with the delicate issues of self-harming behavior and the reasons why people do it. Directly and carefully written, this book discusses avoidance and treatment. Special tool-box sections outline real life coping strategies for resisting, and for helping friends and family cope with this real life issue.

Deliberate Self-Harm in Adolescence. Claudine Fox & Keith Hawton, $34.95

This informative resource provides guidance for professionals and parents caring for young people at risk of self-harm and suicide. The authors, who are well-known in the field, consider what research tells us about the increased prevalence of suicide and self-harm among adolescents, including what the possible risk factors may be. This thorough, practical and evidence-based book is essential reading for all those who are working to support children and young people at risk of self-harm and suicidal behaviour, including social workers, psychiatrists and other mental health professionals, health visitors, GPs, nurses, teachers and parents.

Devastating Losses: How Parents Cope with the Death of a Child to Suicide or Drugs. William Ferguson, John Jordan, John McIntosh & Beverly Feigelman, $60.50

This book fills a critical gap in our scientific understanding of the grief response of parents who have lost a child to traumatic death and the psychotherapeutic strategies that best facilitate healing. It is based on the results of the largest study ever conducted of parents surviving a child's traumatic death or suicide. The book intertwines data, insight, and critical learning gathered from research with the voices of the 575 survivors who participated in the study.

The text emphasizes the sociological underpinnings of survivors' grief and provides data that vividly documents their critical need for emotional support. It explains how bereavement difficulties can be exacerbated by stigmatization, and by the failure of significant others to provide expected support. Also explored in depth are the ways in which couples adapt to the traumatic loss of a child and how this can bring them closer or render their relationship irreparable. Findings suggest that with time and peer support affiliations, most traumatically bereaved parents ultimately demonstrate resilience and find meaningful new roles for themselves.

Eight Stories Up: an Adolescent Chooses Hope Over Suicide. Dequincy Lezine, with David Brent, $10.95

Eight Stories Up is both a remarkable memoir and a useful, compassionate guide that will ease the isolation and hopelessness caused by thoughts of suicide.

Chapter by chapter, readers are introduced to key techniques based in the powerful standard protocol of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR). The inventor of each technique explains and illustrates his or her method using a variety of case examples. Mixing a how-to approach with ample clinical wisdom, this book will help clinicians excel when using EMDR to treat clients.

Freedom from Self-Harm: Overcoming Self-Injury with Skills from DBT and Other Treatments. Kim Gratz & Alexander Chapman, $22.95

Self-injury can be as addictive as any drug, and the secrecy and shame many sufferers feel about this behavior can keep them feeling trapped. This complete guide to stopping self-injury gives you the facts about self-harm, corrects common myths this behavior, and provides self-soothing techniques you can begin using right away for regulating difficult or overwhelming emotions. Drawn from treatments such as dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), the tools in this book can help you cope with your emotions whenever you feel the urge to self-harm.

Helping Children and Young People Who Self-Harm: an Introduction to Self-Harming and Suicidal Behaviours for Health Professionals. Tim McDougall, Marie Armstrong & Gemma Trainor, $46.50

Helping Children and Young People Who Self-Harm provides clear and practical guidance for health professionals and child and youth workers, who are confronted by this complex and difficult reality.

From a leading authority on adolescent self-injury, this reassuring parent guide explains what motivates cutting and how various treatments can provide effective routes to wellness. The book gives parents crucial information on how self-injury differs from suicidal behavior, ways to talk to teens about cutting without making it worse, and practical steps they can take to help teens cope with extreme emotions. Mental health professionals and students also will appreciate the book as an accessible overview of state-of-the-science treatment principles.

History of a Suicide: My Sister’s Unfinished Life. Jill Bialosky, $27.99

An extraordinary book. Poetic, compassionate and courageous, History of a Suicide is an intimate look at suicide and a fearless, yet tender, account of family mythology and pain. Jill Bialosky brings to light an unspeakable act, and does so with a clarity that comes from years of reflection and turmoil.

Identifying, Assessing, and Treating Self-Injury at School. David Miller, $53.50

Nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) among young people — most notably in the form of forearm or wrist cutting - occurs across cultural groups, social strata, and developmental stages, puzzling and repelling adults. Because NSSI is often first noticed in the school setting (as is the case with many children's disorders), school professionals are being encouraged to take a more proactive role in intervention.

The book, which is specifically geared toward education personnel, clearly defines NSSI, differentiating it from suicidal, borderline, and other behaviors and analyzing the psychological contexts in which it occurs. This school-based perspective gives readers a practical framework for earlier, more accurate diagnosis; relevant consulting with parents, teachers, and colleagues; and effective, science-based treatment.

Responding to Self-Harm in Children and Adolescents: a Professional's Guide to Identification, Intervention and Support. Steven Walker, $27.95

Self-harm is a growing problem in children and young people but it can be hard to understand and difficult to recognize.

RESPONDING TO SELF-HARM IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS will help professionals to understand self-harm and respond appropriately. It covers what the risk factors are, including social exclusion, and who is most likely to self-harm. Information on what self-harm is and what causes it, including mental health issues, problems in childhood and trauma, is included. The book also covers how to recognize self-harm and how to immediately respond in an emergency, and different intervention methods are explored. Finally, the author discusses means of support, including how parents and friends can help.

This accessible guide provides clear and easily digestible information and practical advice to any professional working with a child or young person who is suspected of, or actually self-harming.

Rocky Roads: the Journeys of Families through Suicide Grief. Michelle Linn-Gust, $21.95

ROCKY ROADS guides individuals and families, with the ultimate goal of strengthening the family, after a suicide loss. Author Michelle Linn-Gust recognizes that each person’s journey is unique, yet happens within the context of family histories, traditions, and relationships. With compassion and experience, she offers a family-based perspective to suicide loss.

A Short Introduction to Understanding and Supporting Children and Young People Who Self-Harm. Carol Fitzpatrick, $22.95

Self-harm and suicidal behaviours are increasingly common in young people, but are often hidden. It can be hard to know what might be causing a young person to self-harm, and how to help and support them. Practical and easy to read, this book guides the reader through what self-harm is, how to recognize it, and how best to respond. It combines case studies with professional and practical advice, covering all aspects from warning signs and treatment to communication and how the family is affected. The author also emphasizes the importance of parents and carers seeking support for themselves.

This book is an invaluable source of information and guidance for parents, teachers, youth workers, and others who care for a young person showing signs of self-harm or suicidal behaviour.

Silent Grief: Living in the Wake of Suicide, Revised Edition. Christopher Lukas & Henry Seiden, $22.95

Silent Grief is a book for and about “suicide survivors” – those who have been left behind by the suicide of a friend or loved one. Author Christopher Lukas is a suicide survivor himself — several members of his family have taken their own lives — and the book draws on his own experiences, as well as those of numerous other suicide survivors. These personal testimonies are combined with the professional expertise of Henry M. Seiden, a psychologist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist.

The authors present information on common experiences of bereavement, grief reactions and various ways of coping. Their message is that it is important to share one's experience of “survival” with others and they encourage survivors to overcome the perceived stigma or shame associated with suicide and to seek support from self-help groups, psychotherapy, family therapy, Internet support forums or simply a friend or family member who will listen.

Silent Grief gives valuable insights into living in the wake of suicide and provides useful strategies and support for those affected by a suicide, as well as professionals in the field of psychology, social work, and medicine.

Someone I Love Died by Suicide: a Story for Child Survivors and Those Who Care for Them. Doreen Cammarata, $22.50

This sensitive, simple guide for children and youth addresses the mixed emotions that follow the suicide of a loved one.

Stopping the Pain: a Workbook for Teens Who Cut & Self-Injure. Lawrence Shapiro, $18.95

If you are cutting or hurting yourself, you are not alone.

The exercises in Stopping the Pain will help you explore why you self-injure and give you ideas on how you can stop. The book will help you learn new skills for dealing with issues in your life, reduce your stress and to reach out to others when you need to. Work through this book or just check out the sections that speak to you most. This is your own personal and private road map to regaining control of your life.

Stopping the Pain: a Workbook for Teens Who Self-Injure. Lawrence Shapiro, Professional Version with CD-ROM, $36.95

Self-injury can be a symptom of a variety of disorders, but no matter what the cause, this disturbing behavior must be addressed. This comprehensive workbook helps the teen and her counselor explore the reasons behind her need to hurt herself, and focuses on more positive ways to deal with the issues of stress and control. The professional version includes the workbook and a digital copy of the workbook on CD-ROM for easy printing.

In this definitive guide book, Michael F. Myers, MD, a leading psychiatrist, and Carla Fine, author of the acclaimed No Time to Say Goodbye: Surviving the Suicide of a Loved One, combine their perspectives as a physician and a survivor to offer compassionate and practical advice to anyone affected by suicide.

Treating Depressed and Suicidal Adolescents: a Clinician's Guide. David Brent, Kimberly Poling & Tina Goldstein, $38.50

Grounded in decades of research and the clinical care of thousands of depressed and suicidal teens, this highly accessible book will enhance the skills of any therapist who works with this challenging population. The authors describe the nuts and bolts of assessing clients and crafting individualized treatment plans that combine cognitive and behavioral techniques, emotion regulation interventions, family involvement, and antidepressant medication. Illustrated with many clinical examples, each chapter includes a concise overview and key points. Reproducible treatment planning forms and client handouts can also be downloaded and printed by purchasers in a convenient full-page size.

Voices of Strength: Sons and Daughters of Suicide Speak Out. Judy Zionts Fox & Mia Roldan, $17.50

In this deeply moving book, Judy Zionts Fox and Mia Roldan survey survivors of parental suicide, exploring they ways their lives have been affected and shaped by this life-altering event. The authors, themselves both victims of parental suicide, help fellow survivors to gain comfort, cope with memories of their departed parents and reveal helpful methods and strategies by which to heal from the heartbreak of parental suicide and create a promising, productive future.

When Your Child is Cutting: a Parent’s Guide to Helping Children Overcome Self-Injury. Merry McVey-Noble, Sony Khemlani-Petal, Fugen Neziroglu, $16.95

When Your Child is Cutting tells parents why self-injury happens, how to spot it when it is happening, and how to address this sensitive topic with confidence. It outlines a clear and simple plan for approaching a child who self-injures-because good communication is a necessary first step in healing. By helping them assess their situation and locate the best kinds of professional help, this book strives to support and reassure parents as they move through this difficult experience.

Drawing on extensive clinical and epidemiological evidence, as well as personal experience, Thomas Joiner brings a comprehensive understanding to seemingly incomprehensible behavior. Among the many people who have considered, attempted, or died by suicide, he finds three factors that mark those most at risk of death: the feeling of being a burden on loved ones; the sense of isolation; and, chillingly, the learned ability to hurt oneself. Joiner tests his theory against diverse facts taken from clinical anecdotes, history, literature, popular culture, anthropology, epidemiology, genetics, and neurobiology - facts about suicide rates among men and women; white and African-American men; anorexics, athletes, prostitutes, and physicians; members of cults, sports fans, and citizens of nations in crisis.

The result offers insight, guidance, and essential information to clinicians, scientists, and health practitioners, and to anyone whose life has been affected by suicide.

Matthew Selekman provides readers with a comprehensive, highly practical approach to working with a challenging group of clients — adolescents who self-harm. Mental health professionals and affiliated professionals in schools are seeing more and more adolescents who cut and burn themselves, abuse alcohol and drugs, have eating disorders, or who engage in excessive risk taking. Working with Self-Harming Adolescents offers readers effective guidelines for preventing and constructively managing self-harming episodes. The book offers an integrative and flexible solution-oriented approach for treatment and an innovative, skill-based Stress-Busters’ Leadership Group, which can be run in schools or any treatment setting