What To Say if Your Child is Self-Harming: A Guide To the Initial Discussion
More level-headed and considered advice from “teenage expert” Michelle Mitchell.
Go to ResourcePresentation available to schools. Award winning speaker, author and educator Michelle Mitchell has combined her 20 years’ experience, with the latest research, interviews with nationally recognised experts and stories from professionals and everyday families, to give parents and professionals fresh insights into ‘how-to’ prevent, understand and respond to self-harm.
Go to ResourceCalm Harm provides some immediate techniques to help break the cycle of self-harm behaviours and explore underlying trigger factors; build a ‘safety net’ of helpful thoughts, behaviours and access to supportive people; and provides the opportunity to journal and self-reflect. It also provides signposts to help.
Go to ResourceSometimes people self-harm as a way to cope. Learn what self-harm is, why people self-harm, and what can help.
Go to ResourceSelf-harm and self-injury. What is it? Ways to cope. Getting support. Share or learn in forums. How friends and family can help.
Go to ResourceSelf-harm can be a one-off event or become a repeated behaviour that can be hard to change. At Lifeline we are here for you with respect and without judgment.
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