cutting, self-injury, and the adolescent search for self /
First Statement of Responsibility
Lori G. Plante ; foreword by Chris Hayward.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Westport, Conn. :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Praeger,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2007.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (xiv, 186 pages).
SERIES
Series Title
Abnormal psychology,
ISSN of Series
1554-2238
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-174) and index.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
"In this book, Plante features the stories of self-injurers and helps the reader understand the meaning of the injuries and how to help teens stop. This author, who is a psychologist, a parent, and a Stanford University Medical School faculty member, explains in clear detail how cutters and the adults who love them can heal the pain and stop self-injury. She describes the frightening developmental tasks that teenagers and young adults face, and how the central challenges of the three I's (Independence, Intimacy, and Identity) compel them to cope through self-destructive acts. Readers will feel as if they are in the therapy room with Plante and these struggling teenagers as they seek to overcome their internal pain and that desperate need to cut and self-injure."--Jacket.