If you have a loved one who is experiencing suicidal thoughts, you may feel deeply afraid—both of loss and of saying the wrong thing and making matters worse. Based on decades of clinical experience in suicidology, this compassionate guide gives readers the essential communication techniques and coping skills they need to support a loved one in crisis, while also taking care of themselves.
CBT Activities to Reduce Pain, Increase Hope, and Build Meaningful Connections
by Jeremy W. Pettit and Ryan M. Hill
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 9781684039975
Pub Date: September 2022
Suicide is the second leading cause of death among teens in the US, and the need for effective prevention has never been greater. Written by two adolescent suicide experts, this gentle and effective guide will help teens overcome suicidal thoughts by reducing emotional pain, increasing hope, and building meaningful connections. Readers will learn specific skills grounded in evidence-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), including how to establish safety plans, identify and manage intense emotions, limit stress, find purpose, and ultimately take control of their suicidal thoughts to move forward into a more optimistic and hopeful future.
CBT Skills to Reduce Emotional Pain, Increase Hope, and Prevent Suicide
by Kathryn Hope Gordon
Foreword by Thomas Ellis Joiner
Price: $21.95
ISBN: 9781684037025
Pub Date: July 2021
This important, evidence-based workbook helps those with suicidal thoughts create a crisis plan and establish a safe environment in the event that their thoughts become too much to bear. Readers will also find tools to reduce psychological pain and increase hope; strengthen social connections; take part in meaningful events to reduce suicidal thoughts and behavior; develop resiliency in the face of future suicidal thoughts or behavior; and foster a sense of safety, psychological strength, and mental health.
Practical Tools to Help You Manage Emotions and Overcome Self-Harming Behaviors
by Sheri Van Dijk
Price: $21.95
ISBN: 9781684035458
Pub Date: March 2021
Self-harm is a serious problem with potentially long-term or even deadly consequences. From the author of Don’t Let Your Emotions Run Your Life for Teens, this workbook outlines the four essential skills of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) to help teens regulate emotions, make behavioral changes, and cultivate resilience. Using the evidence-based tools in this guide, teen readers can put an end to self-harming behaviors and build the life they truly want.
Skills to Help You Overcome Cutting and Self-Harming Behaviors, Thoughts, and Feelings
by Gina M. Biegel and Stacie Cooper
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 9781684033676
Pub Date: September 2019
Mindfulness creates space for teens to stop and reflect, before engaging in impulsive reactions such as self-harm. In The Self-Harm Workbook for Teens, mindfulness expert Gina Biegel offers teen readers powerful skills to help them identify negative, self-harming thoughts and manage these thoughts in healthy ways, instead of resorting to cutting and other dangerous behaviors.
Overcoming Self-Injury with Skills from DBT and Other Treatments
by Alexander L. Chapman and Kim L. Gratz
Foreword by Barent Walsh
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 9781572246164
Pub Date: May 2009
In Freedom from Self-Harm, two psychologists specializing in self-injury treatment present a program based in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) for overcoming cutting and other self-harming behaviors. Readers learn coping skills for handling difficult emotions and urges to injure themselves.
This comprehensive workbook helps teens who self-injure explore the reasons behind their need to hurt themselves and sets forth positive ways to deal with the issues of stress and control. The activities in this workbook provide teens with safe, effective alternatives to self-injury and help them develop a plan to stay healthy.
A Parent's Guide to Helping Children Overcome Self-Injury
by Sony Khemlani-Patel, Merry McVey-Noble and Fugen Neziroglu
Price: $20.95
ISBN: 9781572244375
Pub Date: July 2006
This much-needed book acquaints parents of children and adolescents who cut themselves with the signs and causes of self-injury and offers strategies for communicating about the issue and getting kids the help they need to overcome this dangerous behavior.
This definitive new self-help guide offers help to the millions of Americans who suffer from trichotillomania, an obsessive-compulsive disorder that leads them to pull out their hair.
This is the first self-help guide addressed to those who are considering suicide. A step-bystep program for change shows how to replace negative beliefs, feel better through coping, and develop alternative skills for solving problems in their lives.
