Young People In Focus

EMOTIONAL HEALTH:
A DVD and CD Training Pack by Dorothy Eddi Piper, Young People in Focus 2005

This flexible resource is for use in a wide range of courses for professionals. Developed by trainers to meet the need to bring young people more directly into the training environment, it focuses on life experiences that contribute to positive and negative emotional health.

The CD includes training exercises, student handouts and a transcript of the Youth Voices film to print out and to photocopy. The DVD contains short film clips of sensitively conducted interviews with young people. The young people talk honestly and openly about their experiences to engage and stimulate learners. Topics include:

• anger and lashing out
• self-harm
• isolation
• relationships with teachers, counsellors, psychiatrists and parents.

Suitable for Training

cutting-edge material...accessible, thought-provoking, and inspiring, can be read and understood on many levels for a variety of students.

Suzie Schofield, Midlands Secondary School

ISBN 978 1871504 637

TEENAGE SUICIDE & SELF-HARM TRAINING PACK with audio CD
John Coleman, Young People in Focus 2004

will aid interactive training and group discussions...a good start to open up a growing field within mental health that is at last increasing in public awareness."

Young People Now

It is based on interviews with young people, parents, friends and workers in the field, and offers five sets of training exercises. These cover:

• understanding suicide and self-harm
• recognising risk in relation to suicide and self-harm
• responding to self-harm behaviour
• working with family and friends
• the impact on the professional

Each training exercise takes in the region of 2 hours to complete and the material includes ideas for further work, and a resource list. The pack is accompanied by an audio CD which contains the full transcript of all the interviews.

ISBN: 978 1871504 538

YOUNG PEOPLE: SUICIDE & SELF-HARM
Dorothy Eddi Piper, Young People in Focus 2002

This invaluable resource brings together information from research and clinical practice and is written for those who work with young people who may be suicidal or self-harming. It includes: Information; Recognising risk; Strategies for helping; supporting those affected; Useful organisations and a Booklist.

This brief guide deals with complex, taboo, emotive issues in a supportively authoritative manner. The text conveys respect, compassion and a very responsible attitude to young people, friends and relatives, workers and supervisors. Without being prescriptive it gives sold therapeutic strategies, risk assessment checklists, useful organisations and an up-to-date bibliography.

Raymond Simpson, Chartered Educational Psychologist, Family Therapist, Counselling Trainer and Supervisor

25pp ISBN 978 1871504 477

SELF-HARM: YOUNG PEOPLE SPEAKING OUT
Sheffield City Council Women's Committee, Young People in Focus 2001

A booklet which contains young people's thoughts on why they self-harm and offers advice on coping strategies.

ISBN 978 1871504 545

SELF-HARM: YOUNG PEOPLE SPEAKING OUT
Sheffield City Council Women's Committee, Young People in Focus 2001

SET OF 4 BOOKLETS ISBN: 978 1871504 651

Also available in single copies Price: £4.00 Code: YPSO

BY THEIR OWN YOUNG HANDS
Deliberate Self-harm and Suicidal Ideas in Adolescents
Keith Hawton and Karen Rodham with Emma Evans, Jessica Kingsley Publishers

This practical book offers advice on how to identify young people at risk of self-harming, cope with the aftermath of self-harm or attempted suicide and develop training programmes in this area for teachers and other professionals. It also examines the roles of self-help, telephone help lines, email counselling and walk-in crisis centres in providing support for young people at risk of - or actively engaging in - self-harm and associated behaviours.

BEYOND FEAR AND CONTROL
Working with Young People who Self-Harm.
PCCS Books, Edited by Helen Spandler and Sam Warner

This is the most refreshing book on self-harm that I have read for a long time.

Young People Now

This book is about supporting young people who use self-harm as a way of coping with distress. It brings together practitioners, activists and service users from a wide range of contexts who have developed new and innovative ways of helping young people who self-harm. These include group work, work in prisons, counselling, housing support etc.

NEW APPROACHES TO PREVENTING SUICIDE
A manual for practitioners
Edited by David Duffy and Tony Ryan, Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2004

Explores the links between self-harm and suicide and offers a wealth of practical guidance on issues such as risk assessment and management in a range of settings.

Includes an analysis of the rate and causes of suicide among specific groups, including black and minority ethnic groups, people in custody and people with mental illnesses.

This book provides information needed to make a positive contribution to suicide prevention in institutional and community settings.

382pp