Positive Focus: A groupwork approach to self harm - Book
Seven sessions, with an optional eighth encompass anger management, relaxation, assertion, communication skills, distraction and channelling, problem solving and self-control.
- Sessions offer:
- positive alternatives to self-harm
- understanding of triggers/maintainers
- opportunities to express feelings and have shared creative experiences
- stress management and coping strategies
- development of self-control and taking responsibility for actions
- making choices
- dealing with difficult situations
- understanding needs and rights.
Group members build a personalised support toolkit. Includes session plans, downloadable online materials and monitoring tools.
Ideal group size: 6.This group programme was developed due to a rise in self-harm referrals when CAMHS resources were limited.
Seven sessions, with an optional eighth encompass anger management, relaxation, assertion, communication skills, distraction and channelling, problem solving and self-control.
- Sessions offer:
- positive alternatives to self-harm
- understanding of triggers/maintainers
- opportunities to express feelings and have shared creative experiences
- stress management and coping strategies
- development of self-control and taking responsibility for actions
- making choices
- dealing with difficult situations
- understanding needs and rights.
Group members build a personalised support toolkit. Includes session plans, downloadable online materials and monitoring tools.
Ideal group size: 6.
"It provides a clear structure for setting up and running group sessions for young people who self-harm… I think this is a very useful resource for professionals working with young people who self-harm… It facilitates the development of group sessions, which make best use of professional's time."
Highly Commended in Health and Social Care in the 2016 BMA Medical Book Awards
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