16/12/2008 by ALISTAIR RHIND.

Alistair Rhind was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1956. He trained in Psychiatry in Scotland in the late seventies, and went on to specialise in Addiction and Alcoholism therapy Alistair has the ability to engender trust and more importantly, hope, in the many sufferers he has treated during his Thirty years in the business.

Alistair has trained many other  therapists and health professionals in the, ‘how to’ of working successfully in the psychotherapy/hypnotherapy field and has been Treatment Director in several Private Rehabilitation Clinics around the country where he specialised in designing and implementing successful group and individual Treatment Programmes . He has been involved with most of the top clinics in the South including ‘The Priory’ and has worked with the rich and famous as well as the not so rich and famous.

Alistair has trained in the U.S. and the U.K. in Counselling, Psychotherapy, Hypnotherapy, NLP and Family Therapy. He is also a Reiki Master.

Alistair runs a Private Practice in Hypnotherapy, Counselling and Psychotherapy. He has designed and delivers a serious of talks for schools and industry designed to facilitate prevention as well as treatment of the many addictive problems and to encourage responsible healthy choices.

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03/12/2008 by ALISTAIR RHIND.

Self harm is a complex problem and self harmers are extremely complex people. Their behaviour would seem to fall outside the norm; and yet its statistical increase suggests that it is becoming frighteningly more prevalent. A study carried out in schools in 2002 found that 11 per cent of girls and 3 per cent of boys aged 15 and 16 said they had harmed themselves in the previous year.I recently talked to a group of about 100 six formers at aPrivate school in the South East. In that group there were around 10 – 12 active serious harmers, boys and girls at varying stages of the condition. Each harmer was involving at least two others in their harming episodes to help with the bleeding, bandaging and emotions once they had cut. This is becoming a huge problem by anyone’s standards and requires considerable professional specialists input in order to develop an education and prevention strategy. Anyone will agree that preventing self harm is preferable than trying to successfully treat it once developed to addictive proportions.

What is self harm?

      Cutting

      Taking overdoses of tablets or medicines

      Punching oneself

      Throwing their bodies against something

      Pulling out hair or eyelashes

      Scratching, picking or tearing at one’s skin causing sores and scarring

      Burning

      Inhaling or sniffing harmful substances

      Self Mutilation 

What is self harm 

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