Warren County Connection A Publication of Cornell Cooperative Extension of Warren County
March 2019
Book Offers Hope to Parents of Children Who Self-injure In this issue:
By Susan Kelley, Staff Writer, Cornell Chronicle
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Parents who discover their children intentionally hurt themselves – by cutting, carving, scratching or burning their skin – often feel guilty and ashamed, assuming they somehow caused their children’s emotional distress.
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A new book by experts in self-injury offers parents hope: assurance that they didn’t cause their child’s selfinjuring, and guidance on how they can become key allies in helping their child heal. Richardson of the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, “Healing Self“Having a child self-injure can be so Injury” focuses on life after parents hard and feel so dark at times. Our or caregivers have discovered their intention was to inform, encourage child is involved in non-suicidal selfand support caretakers,” said Janis injury – self-injury that is not intendWhitlock, co-author of “Healing Self- ed to end one’s life. The book covers Injury: A Compassionate Guide for the background and basics of selfParents and Other Loved Ones” injury, why people do it and, most (Oxford University Press), available importantly, how parents and loved Feb. 4. ones can help their child, their families and themselves. The book is based on extensive research – including Whitlock’s work as Commonly known as “cutting,” nondirector of the Cornell Research Prosuicidal self-injury is best understood gram on Self-Injury and Recovery. as a way of coping with stressful The book’s vivid anecdotes are emotions and thoughts, the authors drawn from the researchers’ insay. The relief from the physical pain depth interviews with real families in of a self-injury essentially tricks the recovery from self-injury. brain into perceiving relief from Co-written with Elizabeth Lloyd-
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