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Author
Language
English
Description
Words are like a road map to reporter Camille Preaker's troubled past. Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, Camille's first assignment from the second-rate daily paper where she works brings her reluctantly back to her hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. Since she left town eight years ago, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows: a beautiful thirteen-year-old with...
Author
Series
It happened to me volume 46
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Looks at the causes of teenage self-injury, and offers family and friends advice on what signs to look for and ways to prevent it.
7) Self injury
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"We must understand that in the trauma survivor, self injury is functional. It always performs some deep, underlying function. Most generally, it's an attempt to ward off worse harm." David Calof. A client's self mutilating behavior can be extremely challenging for the therapist. This video series discusses the range of traumatic causes of self mutilation, and the forms that it takes, as well as interventions that can provide more adaptive responses....
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Illustrated with case studies and success stories from a diverse group of patients, BODILY HARM is one of the most authoritative books on self-injury--not only shedding light on this horrifying epidemic, but offering real hope to those who suffer, their families, and their friends.
10) Willow
Author
Publisher
Dial
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Willow, who was driving the car that killed both of her parents, copes with the pain and guilt by cutting herself, until she meets a smart and sensitive boy who is determined to help her stop.
11) Thirteen
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
Los Angeles teenager and overachiever Tracy is an excellent student in her seventh grade class and gets along well with her mother, Melanie. She fears that she's not cool enough to be friends with Evie, the most popular girl in school. Fueled with genuine adolescent energy, Tracy follows Evie's lead into the harsh realities of sex, drugs, and hard-edged adventure. Consumed with temptations and conflicting desires, Tracy loses her good-girl identity,...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Parents who discover a teen's self-injurious behavior are gripped by uncertainty and flooded with questions - Why is my child doing this? Is this a suicide attempt? What did I do wrong? What can I do to stop it? And yet basic educational resources for parents with self-injuring children are sorely lacking. Healing after Self-Injury provides desperately-needed guidance to parents and others who love a young person struggling with self-injury"--
13) Cut
Author
Publisher
Front Street
Pub. Date
©2000
Language
English
Description
While confined to a mental hospital, thirteen-year-old Callie slowly comes to understand some of the reasons behind her self-mutilation, and gradually starts to get better.
Author
Series
Stravaganza volume 6
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When desperately unhappy Laura, who secretly performs self-mutilation, finds her talisman and transports to Fortezza, a parallel world that resembles the Italian Renaissance city-state of Lucca, she faces battles on the field and of the heart.
15) Rage
Author
Series
Riders of the apocalypse volume 2
Publisher
Graphia
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Missy copes with being an outcast at school and stress at home by cutting herself with a razor blade, until Death chooses her as one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, War, and offers her a new blade.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mia is officially a Troubled Teen"--she gets bad grades, drinks too much, and has probably gone too far with too many guys. But she doesn't realize how out of control she seems until she is taken from her home in the middle of the night and sent away to Red Oak Academy, a therapeutic girls' boarding school in the middle of nowhere. While there, Mia is forced to confront her painful past at the same time she questions why she's at Red Oak. If she were...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Two girls find friendship on their path to mental health in a story of acceptance, recovery, and resilience"--
Dani comes from the richest, most famous Black family in Texas and seems to have everything a girl could want. So why does she keep using and engaging in other self-destructive behavior? Camila's Colombian-American family doesn't have much, but she knows exactly what she wants out of life and works her ass off to get it. So why does she...
18) Scorsese shorts
Series
Criterion collection volume 1030
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
This complilation of five early short films by Martin Scorsese offers a fascinating window onto his artistic development. Spanning the years from Scorsese's time at NYU in the mid-1960s to the late '70s, when he was emerging as one of the era's most electrifying talents. Scorsese Shorts centers on the intimate home movie Italianamerican--a loving snapshot of the director's parents--and American Boy, a freewheeling portrait of a larger-than-life raconteur....
Series
Intervention volume Season 1
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
In this episode, friends try to help Tamela, 24, who was molested as a child and now cuts herself with razorblades. Jerrie's addiction to Vicodin may be less dramatic, but she has been forging physician signatures on prescriptions and scouring the waterfront for dealers. Her family calls interventionist, Jeff Van Vonderen for help.
20) Van Gogh's ear
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Art historians attempt to find out the truth behind Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh cutting off his ear.
Everybody has heard about when Vincent van Gogh looked into a mirror and cut into his own ear. Bernadette Murphy, an independent researcher, has uncovered definitive evidence which reveals exactly what happened that night, and how it ultimately shaped van Gogh's remarkable art. Murphy's detective work finally provides answers to the mystery that...
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