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Empirical Review on Youth Self-Injury

• Epidemic facts on the incidence and prevalence of youth self-injury
• Psychiatric and medical comorbidity associated with youth self-injury
  • Reactive Attachment Disorder
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
  • Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
  • Major Depressive Disorder
  • Disruptive Behavioral Disorders

 

The Clinical Assessment of Youth Self-Injury

• General diagnostic interview and mental status examination
• Review of the spectrum self-injurious behaviors
• Cognitive-behavioral, psychodynamic, family systems, feminist, and neuropsychological perspectives on self-injury
• Comparative analysis of suicidal, para-suicidal, and non-suicidal self-injury
• Suicidal and lethality risk and protective factor assessment
• Personality assessment
• Norm-referenced self-injury inventories
• Consultation and collaboration with health care and allied health care professionals

 

The Treatment of Youth Self-Injury

• Treating the behavior as addiction and obsessive-compulsive behavior
• Four-step therapeutic assessment and treatment approach
  • Emergency triage and case conceptualization
  • Therapeutic assessment and functional analysis of self-injury behaviors and reinforcements
  • Motivational interviewing — treating self-injury as an addiction
  • Exposure therapy — treating obsessive-compulsive features of self-injury
• Counseling techniques
  • Family systems counseling
  • Group psychotherapy approaches
  • Psychodynamic
  • Existential, Adlerian-feminist psychotherapy of self-injury
  • Cognitive-behavioral
  • Metaphorical/narrative therapy approaches for self-injury
• Pharmacotherapy
  • Commonly prescribed medications
  • When to send out a referral
  • Contraindications
• Self-care techniques for clients to use when the urge is strong
• Coordination of medical care and mental health care
• Professionals, educators, and allied health care professionals
• Relapse prevention
• Ethical practice risk management

• Tips for professional self-care—to prevent the clinician from burnout and vicarious traumatization
• Coordination of care amongst professionals: professional team-building
• HIPAA compliance, duty-to-warn issues; ethical and legal dilemmas
• Examination of community resources and references (including use of the internet in the assessment and treatment of self-injury)

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Continuing Education Information
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