Helen Spandler

Helen Spandler

Helen works as a Research Fellow in the Department of Social Work at the University of Central Lancashire. She has worked for a number of mental health organisations, including 42nd Street, where she researched and wrote Who’s Hurting Who? (42nd Street 1996). She also recently wrote Asylum to Action: Paddington Day Hospital, Therapeutic Communities and Beyond (JKP, 2006) a book about the history of a libertarian therapeutic community.

Books by Helen Spandler

Helen Spandler

Beyond Fear and Control: Working with young people who self harm

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As the title Beyond Fear and Control suggests, this book aims to move services away from responses based on fear and assumptions that we need to manage and control young people who self harm. It discusses ways in which services can change the focus from managing or 'stopping' self harm to working with young people in more permissive, ‘young…

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