See My Pain! Creative Strategies and Activities for Helping Young People Who Self-Injure

A collection of strategies and activities to help children and adolescents who deliberately self-injure. A variety of hands-on creative arts approaches are featured that can be used in private practice and school settings. When working with youth who self-injure it is helpful to have a variety of creative approaches at your fingertips. The approaches and activities in this book can be used with individuals or with a small group. The activities help children/adolescents to express their feelings, understand why they self-injure, engage in a healing process, explore new methods of coping and prevention, and find new meaning and purpose in their lives. Sample assessment questions and activities are included. The following 15 strategies with activities and reproducibles are listed below: *Crucial Communication Skills * Creative Journaling * Personal Strength Coaching * Relaxation/Guided Imagery * Visual Arts * Metaphors * Sand Play * Music * Story Telling * Tactile Diversion * Creative Dramatics * Animals and Nature * Prayer Power * Mentoring * Clay.Susan Bowman is the author of 'See My Pain! Creative Strategies and Activities for Helping Young People Who Self-Injure', published 2006 under ISBN 9781889636627 and ISBN 1889636622.