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Dr Lucy Taylor is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist working in independent practice in Surrey, offering treatment for adolescents and young adults and supervision to mental health professionals. She worked for over 20 years in the NHS, including jointly heading up the National & Specialist Child and Adolescent Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) Service, Maudsley Hospital. She has co-written two editions of a CBT workbook for therapists treating young people who self-harm and delivers training and supervision of the programme to multi-disciplinary mental health professionals who work with adolescent self-harm.

Dr Mima Simic is a Consultant Child Adolescent Psychiatrist leading the Maudsley Centre for Child and Adolescent Eating Disorders. She was Consultant for the Community Adolescent Mental Health Team and National & Specialist Child and Adolescent DBT Service, Maudsley hospital for over a decade. She has researched treatments for self-harm in which she teaches and trains mental health professionals.

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Self-harm is a worrying and significant problem for young people. At least 1 in 10 adolescents engage in self-harm at least once in their lives. It is also an area that both parents and professionals find difficult to manage. It can often be a private and secretive action and offering a self-help book aims to access and help more young people. There are very few self-help books on the market for adolescents who self-harm and offering an evidence based, up to date book full of strategies is well needed. Another unique aspect to this self-help book is that it will be co-produced with young people who have experienced self-harm themselves, alongside parents/carers who have also been involved. An overview of the books currently on the market indicate there are no specific self-harm, self-help books that target the younger population as well as supporting parents/carers, specifically using a CBT approach and also drawing on third wave CBT strategies.