Working with Self-Injurious Adolescents Using the Safe Kit

ABSTRACT This article offers a guide for using the Safe Kit when working with clients who self-injure. The Safe Kit can be used as a supplement to more traditional approaches to counseling and offers clients alternatives to self-injury when they need alternatives the most. The Safe Kit works under the assumption that individuals differ in the meaning they assign to self-injury and that they also differ in what they find to be effective alternatives to self-injury. The author offers basic guidelines for building and implementing the kit.