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In 1986, Karen Conterio and Wendy Lader, Ph.D. founded the S.A.F.E. Alternatives program - Self Abuse Finally Ends - the country's first and most successful structured inpatient treatment regimen for deliberate self-injury behavior. They continue as the program's administrators today. S.A.F.E. hot line number: (800) DONTCUT The S.A.F.E. Alternatives program offers a combination of medication, cognitive/behavioral therapy, and interpersonal therapy, supplemented by other treatment services as needed. About self-injurers Wendy says, "They feel so grandiosely horrible inside, so what they do to their bodies is never enough to show how much emotional pain they are in." But, says Karen, "This is not a disease, this is a behavior. This is not something that needs to be life-long if the person chooses it not to be. Success in dealing with self- injury begins with recognizing that no one is making you injure, that you're making that choice. The greatest thing a person can learn is that they can choose to injure or not to injure and that is very empowering." |
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Recommended Readings: Bodily Harm: The Breakthrough Treatment Program far Self-injurers Karen Conterio & Dr. Wendy Laden, Hyperion, New York, 1998. Bodies Under Siege: Self-mutilation and Body Modification in Culture and Psychiatry Dr. Armndo R. Favza, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1996. Bright Red Scream Marilee Strong“, Viking, New York, 1998. Cutting the Pain Away Ann Holmes,Chelsea House Publishers, Philadelphia, 2000. Cutting: Understanding and Overcoming Self-mutilation Steven Levenkron, W. W. Norton & Company New York, 1998. The Scarred Soul: Understanding and Ending Self- inflicted Violence Tracy Alderman, New Harbinger Publications, Inc., Oakland, CA, 1997. Self-Mutilation: A Helping Book for Teens Who Hurt Themselves Alicia Clarke, Rosen Publishing, Croup, Inc., New York, 1999. Self-Mutilation: Theory, Research and Treatment Barent Walsh and Paul Rosen , The Guilford Press, New York, 1988. Women Who Hurt Themselves: A Book of Hope and Understanding Dusty Miller, BasicBooks, New York, 1994.
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