Shiltz With Rogers Memorial Publishes
Resource Book On Self-Injury

Thomas J Shiltz MS, CADCIII

The Self-Injury Support Group Curriculum is an essential resource for anyone providing services for individuals who engage in self-injury. Along with current facts and information about self-injury, this 129-page manual offers:

• A comprehensive, step-by-step guide for conducting twelve educational support group sessions, complete with session handouts and instructions for their application.


• A strong cognitive-behavioral component that incorporates features of addictions theory, such as managing compulsive urges and relapse prevention, and the self-soothing and affect-regulation skill building aspects of dialectical behavioral therapy.


• Handouts and exercises included in the curriculum can beused in individual therapy sessions for alltypes of addicitve disorders


• Preview sample pages on line at www.rogershospital.org

Self-injury has been termed by some experts as the new anorexia, and has become a serous and widespread problem for teens and young adults in the past decade. A recent survey published in the Pediatrics professional journal shows that 17% of college students report that they have cut, burned, carved or harmed themselves.

Shiltz's book, Self-Injury Support Group Curriculum, is the latest educational, practical resource manual on self-injury. It includes information on warning signs, self-injury behaviors, and a support group curriculum complete with handouts. It would enable school staff and others to recognize the warning signs of self-injury and connect those students to treatment services.

Shiltz, who has been at Rogers Memorial since July 1995, sees himself as a guide and facilitator. "The road to recovery entails removing obstacles for people so they can find out how to heal within themselves." His trainings often have a full audience and his first self-injury workshop this spring was no exception. As one therapist said, "Tom has enthusiasm that is lifted by his heart and led by his intelligence and deep understanding of true healing".

To order please call or visit: www.rogershospital.org