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Who We Are
S.A.F.E. ALTERNATIVES® 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. Self-injury is known by many names,
including self-abuse, self-mutilation, deliberate self-harm,
parasuicidal behavior, and non-suicidal self-injury.
S.A.F.E. Blog
We invite you to join our blog. Visit the blog here.Seeking Research Participants
Please click here for more information.Philosophy
The S.A.F.E. ALTERNATIVES® philosophy begins with the assumption that, although temporarily helpful, self-injurious behavior is ultimately a dangerous and futile coping strategy which interferes with intimacy, productivity and happiness. There is no "safe" or "healthy" amount of self-injury. We also believe that self-injury is not an addiction over which one is powerless for a lifetime, people can and do stop injuring, with the right kinds of help and support. Self-injury can be transformed from a seemingly uncontrollable compulsion to a choice.
The S.A.F.E. ALTERNATIVES® philosophy respects the autonomy and choice-making capacities of the individual. It is not an authoritarian model; we don't believe that helpers can or should take all the responsibility for keeping the self-injurer safe. Ultimately, the self-injurer must be empowered to learn to keep themselves safe. In order to get well, there must be a shift in the locus of responsibility from the helper, to the one being helped. The helping relationship is a partnership, not a "parental" relationship. At S.A.F.E., we try to create a "culture of safety" in which the injurer comes to realize that self-injury destroys relationships, but safety brings people closer to them. We also do not employ infantilizing, restricting methods of behavior control, which reinforce the individual's sense of helplessness and powerlessness. More »
Webinars:
"How to Understand and Help My Child Who is Self-Injuring" - a parent educational opportunity. To register, click here
Clinical Consultation - Professional consultation for those treating self injury in private practice or a treatment facility. To register, click here.
Questions? Please call 800-DONTCUT®. or write to us at info@selfinjury.com. To view our calendar of Webinars, click here.
Schools:
Please click here for more information about how to better assist students who self injure.
News & Updates
September, 2010
Dr. Wendy Lader will speak in St. Louis, MO at the Employee Assistance Professionals Association (EAPA) annual Fall Conference. It will be held at CenterPointe Hospital on September 15, 2010. Click here for more information.
We are very pleased to announce that the S.A.F.E. Adolescent Expressions™ will be opening near St. Louis, MO on September 13th. Please call 800.366.8288 or write info@selfinjury.com for more information!
There will be an Open House on September 24, 2010 at Edgewood Children's Center. It will be from
8:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M. with tours all day.
Light refreshments will be served.
One hour lectures by Dr. Wendy Lader at 8:30 A.M. and Noon entitled "Self Injury Helps Me, Why Should I Stop?" Click here for more information.
Summer, 2010
New Location!!!!
We are pleased to announce our new partnership with Edgewood Children's Center, a Great Circle Agency in Webster Groves, MO. We will be opening our residential treatment program July 1, accepting 12-20 year olds. (Look for programs for all adults beginning this Fall). We are taking applications now. Please call 800-DONTCUT or write info@selfinjury.com to schedule a screening today! There is help to stop self injuring, just reach out for it.
During August, Karen Conterio and Dr. Wendy Lader were on the show "Your Life Matters". Please click here to listen to the show!
Karen Conterio is in the July 31, 2010 issue of the New York Times. Click here to view the article.
Check out the article from the June 7, 2010 St. Louis Beacon, which includes an interview with Michelle Seliner, MSW, LCSW.
Winter/Spring, 2010
An interview with Michelle Seliner, MSW, LCSW is in the Decatur Herald News. Click here to read the article.Coming soon - Family Circle Magazine article featuring S.A.F.E. ALTERNATIVES® and an interview with Dr. Wendy Lader.
Also, S.A.F.E. is celebrating 25 years of offering self injury treatment, education and advocacy.
Fall, 2009
A new article in the St. Louis Post- Dispatch about our clinic in Missouri. Click here to read the article.Summer, 2009
Please visit Self Injury Foundation, a new non-profit organization dedicated to provide research, advocacy, support and education.Two new books released. "Helping Teens Who Cut" by Michael Hollander; and "Self-Injury in Youth" by Nancy Heath and May Nixon - a comprehensive guide for professionals. Both books are now available in our store
In the news...read the latest article at socialworktoday.com, click here.
Spring, 2009
S.A.F.E. ALTERNATIVES® Clinic located in St. Louis, MO. For more information, please click here.
February, 2009
NBCC Approval was granted for the CEU test for "Bodily Harm". This national approval means that LPCs and LCPCs will be able to take our CEU test and obtain 10 CE hours towards their license.January, 2009
Dr. Wendy Lader was interviewed on NPR the afternoon of 1/14/09. Click here to listen to the program.
December, 2008
The NEW Manuals HAVE ARRIVED! Self-Injury: A Manual for School Professionals and the accompanying Student Workbook to assist school personnel in working with students who self injure are now available. We invite you to preview a copy of the table of contents for this manual.
S.A.F.E. in the news - In the month of December our co-founders have been interviewed by ABC News, the Los Angeles Times and Reuters/CBC Canada and Newsweek. Click here to view the articles.
Please help us stop Burton Snowboards from selling an extremely insensitive product - their new Coalition line of snowboards. This large national snowboard retailer has partnered with Playboy to create a pornographic line of boards and boards depicting self-mutilation. Click here for more information and to get involved.
If you're in the Chicago area, you may be interested in an organization called "Erasing the Distance" - they perform plays to educate people about issues like self injury and mental illness.
September, 2008
Lifestyle Magazine features an interview with Dr. Wendy Lader about the problem of self injury and its causes, symptoms and treatment. Excerpts from the documentary "Cut" share insights to the problem. Former patients are also interviewed. Watch the interview on line by clicking on the above link.
Summer, 2008
"Daño Corporal"
("Bodily Harm" in Spanish) is now available in our store. The book is currently available for shipping.
For the archive of past News & Updates, please click here and view them under our "Philosophy".
Locations:
NEW LOCATION! We are pleased to announce our new partnership with Edgewood Children's Center, a Great Circle Agency in Webster Groves, MO. We will be opening our residential treatment program July 1, accepting 12-20 year olds. (Look for programming for all ages beginning this Fall). Please call 800-DONTCUT (366-8288) or e-mail info@selfinjury.com to schedule a screening today! There is help to stop self injuring, just reach out for it.
S.A.F.E. ALTERNATIVES® Clinic located in St. Louis, Missouri offers S.A.F.E. Choice groups, individual and family therapy. Contact us for an assessment.
S.A.F.E. Focus™ Locations:
Click here to view a complete list of locations.
More locations coming very soon!
Expand S.A.F.E. to your area:
S.A.F.E. ALTERNATIVES is pleased to announce that we have added new program opportunities. If there is a hospital, treatment center, therapeutic day school or other facility that you know of which may be interested in hearing about possible options - please contact us at 800.366.8288 or info@selfinjury.com.Please view our Expert Testimonials to see what people have said about S.A.F.E. ALTERNATIVES®.
Featured Product
Self-injury: A Manual for School Professionals
School Professional Package. (Click on image of manual to view product).
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