As a youthworker you may be struggling with how to talk with your students about a shooting rampage. It may be difficult to talk to your students about the devastation of an F4 tornado that wipes out a small town. It is important to remember that children look to the adults in their life to [...]
Archive for the ‘Self-Injury’ Category
Guiding Your Students Through A Traumatic Event
Posted: May 17, 2012 in Anxiety, Drug Abuse, Grief, Self-Injury, Sexual Abuse, Suicide, Teen Dating ViolenceTags: Adult, f4 tornado, Fear, Health, Mental health, Mental health professional, ministry settings, Posttraumatic stress disorder, Psychological trauma, Student
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What Are We Saying When We Don’t Say Anything?
Posted: June 28, 2011 in Anxiety, Self-Injury, Teens, Youth MinistryTags: Daniel J. Siegel, Facial expression, Mental health, Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation, Youth
“When we block our awareness of feelings, they continue to affect us anyway. Research has shown repeatedly that even without conscious awareness, neural input from the internal world of the body and emotion influences our reasoning and our decision making. Even facial expressions we’re not aware of, even changes in heart rhythm we may not notice, [...]
National Eating Disorder Awareness Week
Posted: February 21, 2011 in Eating Disorders, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Self-Injury, Teens, UncategorizedTags: Disorders, Eating, Eating Disorder, Health, Mental health, Mercy Ministries, National Eating Disorders Association, National Institute of Mental Health
For more information on and help for eating disorders please visit the following: National Eating Disorders National Institute of Mental Health Something Fishy Conversations on the Fringe Mercy Ministries
Would Jesus Sit In The Smoking Section With A Gay Huckleberry Finn?
Posted: November 23, 2010 in Drug Abuse, LGBTQ Youth, Self-Injury, Substance Abuse, Teens, Youth MinistryTags: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, AIDS, God, Huck, Huck Finn, Jesus, Mark Twain, Samaritan
In Mark Twain’s novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck wrestles through a moral dilemma about demonstrating true friendship to a stigmatized person of his day – a man who bore a dual stigma of being black in a racist society and slavery in an exploitative one. To help his friend Jim escape meant violating not only [...]
Self-Mutilation in Abuse Survivors
Posted: September 13, 2010 in Self-Injury, Sexual AbuseTags: Abuse, Child abuse, Emotion, Learning, Pain, Psychological trauma, Self-harm, Sexual abuse
One of the ironies of surviving abuse is that victims might further harm themselves. Self-mutilation includes; burning, hitting, cutting, excessive scratching, using harsh abrasives on skin or scalp, poking sharp objects into flesh, head banging, pulling out hair or eyebrows for noncosmetic purposes, inserting objects into body orifices, excessive fasting, self-surgery, excessive tattooing or piercing, or refusing [...]
Self Injury Quick Reference
Posted: May 30, 2010 in Depression, Self-Injury, TeensTags: cutting, depression, self injury, Teens
Self-injury is increasingly becoming a recognized problem in youth ministry, and all youth pastors and volunteer staff (in Jr. High, High School, and College Ministries) need a general understanding of self-injury, signs to look out for, and what to do if they become aware that a pupil is self-injuring. “Self-injury in middle and high school [...]
Dangers and Diseases Associated with Eating Disorders
Posted: May 20, 2010 in Eating Disorders, Mental Illness, Self-Injury, Teens, UncategorizedALL Eating Disorders are Dangerous It is important to understand that even though a person may be suffering specifically with Anorexia, Bulimia or Compulsive Overeating, it is not uncommon for them to exhibit behaviors from each of the three. It is also not uncommon for one Eating Disorder to be swapped for another (Example: a person who [...]
Approximately 1% of the population has, at one time or another, used self-inflicted physical injury as a means of coping with an overwhelming situation or feeling. Self-harm scares people. The behavior can be disturbing and difficult to understand, and it is often treated in a simplistic or sensational manner by the press. As a result, friends and [...]
