Seeking Solutions to Self-injury: a guide for school staff

Is your school struggling to help young people who self-injure. Perhaps they are not sure they want help, avoiding you and your colleagues, and feeling somewhat hopeless. None of that will help them learn and gain life skills. This Seeking Solutions guide will help you to help them. Simple, clear, and straightforward. Highly informative for teachers, counsellors, and management in schools.

The guide has been completely updated in its second edition (2013) to meet your needs as teachers and policy developers.

Available as a hard copy book for $3.99 plus post and packaging.

Or order the download version for $1.99

Go to

http://www.familyconcernpublishing.com.au/products-page/  

Scroll down to order the book individually, or as part of a suite of 4 books aiming to help this complex and potentially dangerous mental health problem.

Please contact us if you are looking for multiple copies to inform all your staff

Seeking Solutions to Self-injury: a guide for parents and families

Are you struggling to help a young person who self-injures. Perhaps they are not sure they want help, avoiding you, and feeling somewhat hopeless. This Seeking Solutions guide will help you to help them. Simple, clear, and straightforward. Highly informative.

The guide has been completely updated in its second edition (2013).

Available as a hard copy book for $2.99 plus post and packaging.

Or order the download version for $1.99

Go to

http://www.familyconcernpublishing.com.au/products-page/ 

Scroll down to order the book individually, or as part of a suite of 4 books aiming to help this complex and potentially dangerous mental health problem

Seeking Solutions to Self-injury: a guide for young people

Do you know a young person who self-injures. Perhaps they are really struggling and feeling somewhat hopeless. This Seeking Solutions guide will offer help. Simple, clear, and straightforward.

The guide has been completely updated in its second edition (2013).

Available as a hard copy book for $2.99 plus post and packaging.

Or order the download version for $1.99

Go to

http://www.familyconcernpublishing.com.au/products-page/

Scroll down to order the book individually, or as part of a suite of 4 books aiming to help this complex and dangerous mental health problem

Sensual Haiku: the book

Sensual Haiku

These are the Haiku of love - sometimes soft and gentle, sometimes suggestive and raw. They are written to a soulmate - sometimes memories and at other times fantasies.

There are over 100 haiku of 17 syllables (5-7-5), written over 4 years. The book is in four connected parts - Winter to Spring to Summer to Autumn - tracing the stages of loving, but also reflecting the passages of life.

108 pp    Full colour images      $49 for the hard back book or $23 for the pdf download

Go to Family Concern Publishing and click on this image or click on 'Order Publications'. At $49 plus postage and packaging, this could be a beautiful gift for someone you love for Christmas

http://www.familyconcernpublishing.com.au

Photographic images are from the author’s own Japanese garden, from others in Brisbane and Toowomba in Queensland, as well as from journeys to Japan, Korea and China. Other stock images were purchased for the book. Details of paintings are from Ginnosuke Tasuke Yokouchi (1870-1942), a Japanese watercolour painter; all paintings are part of the author’s personal collection.

Self-injury: Could an Expressive Therapy help?

Just shared some powerpoint slides on self-injury and whether expressive therapies could make a difference. This was from a workshop at last year's Australian Music Therapy Association conference.

The essence was the question: "Could an Expressive Therapy (like Voice Movement Therapy) help with the problems in Emotion Regulation experienced by people who self-injure?"

Comments or questions very welcome….

http://www.slideshare.net/grahammartinssnet44/self-injury-amta2012-could

Adolescent Suicide: Imitation and the Clustering Phenomenon

Part III in a series on the impact of suicide in schools. Discusses the clustering phenomenon in which publicity of a student suicide story appears to lead to imitation in a series of student suicides in Australia. Case histories and connections; Tendency of a student to copy the method of a reported suicide case.

Go to http://www.familyconcernpublishing.com.au 

Click the Resources Tab.

Download here: Adolescent Suicide 3: Imitation and the Clustering Phenomenon

Martin, G., 1992. Adolescent Suicide 3: Imitation and the clustering phenomenon. Youth Studies Australia, 11, 1:28-32.

Tagged with: adolescent suicide, Cluster, Copycat, Imitation, prevention, Schools

Monday Haiku: jest, inside, heal, get/ Know

Jest, Inside, Heal, Get

Did not get this jest

Inside, obscuring pain roiled

Laughter could not heal

Never gets the jest

Mean-spirited old sourpuss

Needs healing inside

Get inside a jest

The intent may be to heal

But old scars open

Know

Mmm, I think I can

No, I really think I can

I know you love me

Data can inform

To inform suggests I know

Knowledge not wisdom

Across the table

He gave her a knowing look

Her stomach tightened

Profits are evil

"I know that," said the prophet
"I'm left at a loss"