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Where to find professional help.

Inpatient Programs
Outpatient Programs / Counseling
Methods
Information for Medical Professionals
Removing/Reducing Scars

Inpatient Programs

Country codes are given in parentheses after the program names. Some providers of inpatient programs also have outpatient programs.

S.A.F.E. Alternatives (US) SAFE Alternatives® (Self-Abuse Finally Ends) is a nationally recognized treatment approach, professional network and educational resource base, which is committed to helping you and others achieve an end to self-injurious behavior. 1-800-DONTCUT (1-800-366-8288).

The Cassel Hospital (UK) - Has both adolescent and adult services.
Kennedy Krieger Institute (US) - Mentions self injury on its website but the focus seems to be on self injury combined with autism (also mentioned here).
Life Healing Center of Santa Fe (US) - They have a quick overview of what they do.
National Treatment Center for Trauma Recovery (US) - Del Amo Hospital offers this program. You can read about the program components and try their questionnaire.
River Oaks Hospital (US) - See their compulsive behaviors program and the old page for their Masters and Johnson treatment programs.
Rock Creek Center L.P. (US) - Offers the Nowchange Program for people who self-injure.

Outpatient Programs / Counseling

Butler Hospital - Offers the Women's Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Program.

From their web site: "The Healing House was developed to provide therapeutic services to self- injurers, their families and all interested parties by guiding them on a healing journey. To do this, focused individual, family and group sessions were created to address the specific clinical issues most often associated with the self- injurious client."

New Hope Healing Institute (Kristen's Place) - Kristen offers online support via e-mail and chats as well as regular counseling.
Richard Marshall, Consultant Clinical Psychologist - Offers individual therapy. Has an article on self injury: Understanding Self harm.
River Centre Clinic - Has the Intensive Day Treatment Program which, though focused on eating disorders, also handles depression, self injury etc.
SAFE in Canada - Offers help to self injurers, their families and the professionals who treat them.
SLBMI Self-Injury Program - This program at the Saint Louis Behavioral Medicine Institute offers treatment based on dialectical behavior therapy. It uses a combination of individual therapy, group therapy and family consultations.

Methods

Assessment and Treatment of Self Injury and Aggression with Persons who have Developmental Disorders: Frequently Asked Questions - The title says it all...
Deliberate Self-Harm in a maximum secure setting - A study of women detained at Rampton Hospital.
Intervention Techniques: Self-injurious Behavior - From the University of Virginia Curry School of Education, Office of Special Education.
Narrative Practice - An archived e-mail discussion between clients and therapists.
A Promising Treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder - An article from McLean Hospital Psychiatric Update (January 1999) on Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT).

Information for Medical Professionals

Diazepam and self-harm - A nurse ask for connections between medications and self injury.
Rights for Self-Harmers within AE departments: Suggestions for Staff - Some tips on how to handle self injurers.

Removing/Reducing Scars

The American Society for Dermatologic Surgery has a referral and information hotline: 800-441-2737. In some cases plastic surgery can fade or erase scars.

Scar information Service - Provides information on scars and scar therapies. Has a comprehensive list of resources. This site is run by the company which manufactures Cica-Care (see below).

If you have tried any of the products in the listing below, please let me know if they work or not; I would like to include notes on how effective the products are.

Cica-Care - Can be used to treat keloid scars. I have not tried this product.
Mederma® Skin Care for Scars™ - The company claims this product can reduce scars. I have not tried this product.
ScarTherapy - Curad claims this product can make scars appear less visible. I have not tried this product.

Comments

Peggi writes:

FYI: In the state of New Hampshire The Mental Health Center of Greater Manchester has a large DBT program that offers help to those who would like to learn alternative coping strategies outside of SI. Their site is at www.mhcgm.org.