Today is the first in a series of posts regarding NSSI and the family. For the next few weeks, I will be focussing on a very informative article by Alexis E. Arbuthnott and Stephen P. Lewis about how parents are impacted by their child's NSSI behaviours.* This article has been very helpful to me in my current research as I am currently working on a paper concerning the positive impact that family therapy can have for families that have a self-injuring child. Here are some key

Today I read an excellent article from The Family Journal: Counselling and Therapy for Couples and Families about Self-Injury. The article is written for family therapists who are seeing an increase of families coming for therapy who have children within the family system who are self-injuring. The authors maintain that patients who engage in NSSI may have less secure attachment with parents and caregivers than those who do not self-injure. They suggest that "the most importa