The Adolescent and Young Adult Self-harming Treatment Manual
A Collaborative Strengths-based Brief Therapy Approach

Offers therapeutic strategies and interventions for working with self-harming teenagers in individual, family and group settings. This title includes worksheets and activities that help therapists identify the causes of self-harm and create pathways to healing.

Self-harming behavior in young adults and adolescents is one of the mostintimidating and challenging presenting problems therapists and healthcare andschool professionals face in their practice settings, yet the literature on this behaviorremains scant. This workbook, a companion to Selekman s Working with Self-HarmingAdolescents, provides a detailed treatment protocol for working with thischallenging population. It is a user-friendly resource book for conducting individual, couple, family, and group therapy with young adult and adolescent self-harmingclients. In addition, it presents a plethora of highly effective therapeutic strategies andinterventions and practice guidelines. This manual will help both highly seasoned andbeginning therapists feel more confident and competent working with young adult and adolescent self-harming clients.