Calm Cards

Calm Cards are a pack of cards designed to help young people manage the urge to self-harm.

Calm Cards are based on the notion that ‘the urge to self-harm is like a wave – it feels most powerful when you start wanting to do it. Once you surf the wave, the urge will fade.’

Calm Cards transfers the activities from the clinician-developed app Calm Harm into a physical form, enabling young people to manage the urge to self-harm in places where phones are banned or unavailable, for example, schools, hospitals, youth centres and in the home.

Using ideas from the evidence-based therapy DBT, the cards help through the use of a range of targeted activities to help alter thoughts, emotions and behaviours, enabling them to ‘ride the wave’ of emotion(s) they experience.

The cards are aimed at 13-19-year olds and provide a range of targeted five or fifteen-minute activities to help alter thoughts, emotions and behaviours, enabling young people to manage the urge to self-harm. For more details on how to use the cards, please see below.

93% Calm Harm app users report a reduction in their symptoms after completing an activity.

Each Calm Cards pack contains 92 laminated cards and measures approximately 9.5cm x 6.5cm x 4cm. A 1-minute sand timer is included with each pack.

Please note that Calm Cards can currently only be ordered online in the UK and a maximum of 6 packs can be purchased in a single order. If you are not in the UK or require more than 6 packs then please contact us at shop@stem4.org.uk for details on how to purchase.