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Understanding and working with people with learning disabilities who self-injure
- Authors:
- HESLOP Pauline, LOVELL Andrew, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 160p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The aim of this book is to provide information and resources for those supporting people with learning disabilities who self-injure, to help them to provide appropriately individualised care. It is intended as a resource for social workers, psychologists, counsellors, learning support workers, nurses and social and health care students. It synthesises behavioural and psychological approaches to understanding self-injury and draws on psychoanalytic and social theory to provide practical guidelines for effective support. It discusses motivations for self-injury and suggests person-centred techniques that encourage communication and recovery, using case examples. It covers a range of specific needs, including people with autism who self-injure, and explores the views of people with learning disabilities and their families about what has worked best and why.