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Learn the epidemic facts on youth self-injury Examine the historical, cultural and theoretical perspectives on youth self-injury Outline the spectrum of self-injurious behaviors in children and adolescents Recognize and be able to distinguish between suicidal, para-suicidal and non-suicidal self-injurious behavior in children and adolescents Discuss self-injury etiology, assessment and intervention/prevention issues

The Theory, History and Cultural Origins of Youth Self-Injury

• History of youth self-injury, with cross-cultural comparisons of the problem
• Cognitive-behavioral, psychodynamic, family systems, feminist and neuropsychological perspectives on youth self-injury
• Comparative analysis of suicidal, para-suicidal and non-suicidal self-injury

 

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, including:
  • Reactive Attachment disorder
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
  • Major Depressive Disorder
  • Disruptive Behavior Disorders
• Case study review

 

Signs of Self-Injury

• Types of self-injurious behaviors in children and adolescence
• Behaviors that should be a “red flag”
• Who is most at risk of developing self-injurious behaviors?
• Clinical onset, development and prognosis of injurious behaviors
• Individual emotional and cognitive causes of self-injurious behavior
• Deep psychological sources of self-injury, including masochism and narcissism
• Family conflict, peer pressure and social contagion that causes self-injury

 

 

The Clinical Assessment of Youth Self-Injury

• General diagnostic interview and mental status examination
• Suicidal and lethality risk assessment
• Personality assessment
• Norm-referenced youth self-injury inventories for:

• objectively measuring self-injury risk and protective factors
• suicidal thoughts, emotions and attitudes

• Collateral interviews with parents, teachers and other health care professionals

 

diagnosing self-injurious behavior

• Mood Disorders
• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Attachment Disorder
• Borderline Personality Disorder
• Bipolar Disorder

 

The Treatment of Youth Self-Injury

• Ethical considerations, including confidentiality and duty-to-warn policies
• Treating the behavior as an addiction and as an obsessive-compulsive feature
• The 4-Step Assessment and Treatment Approach
  • emergency triage and case conceptualization
  • functional analysis of self-injury behaviors and reinforcements
  • Motivational Interviewing—to treat self-injury as an addiction
  • Exposure Therapy—to treat obsessive-compulsive features of self-injury
• Counseling Techniques
  • “No talk” Play therapy
  • cognitive-behavioral
  • psychodynamic
  • family systems counseling
  • group psychotherapy approaches
    • dynamic
    • existential
    • cognitive-behavioral

• 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 care with educators, medical and mental health care professionals
  • developing a collaborative team of professionals
  • relapse prevention

• Tips for professional self-care—to prevent you from getting vicarious traumatization

• Examination of community resources and references

 

What You Will Learn

 

• Learn the epidemic facts on youth self-injury
• Examine the historical, cultural and theoretical perspectives on youth self-injury
• Outline the spectrum of self-injurious behaviors in children and adolescents

• Recognize and be able to distinguish between suicidal, para-suicidal and non-suicidal self-injurious behavior in children and adolescents
• Discuss self-injury etiology, assessment and intervention/prevention issues
• Understand the psychiatric disorders of the children who self-injure

• Examine evidence-based reviews and practical approaches for the hospital, therapy room, school, and community
• Discover how to use play therapy, including art therapy, sand-tray therapy, journaling methods, music and crafts to build self-esteem and confidence in youth who self-injure
• Discover Internet resources to further develop self-injury  assessment and therapy skills demonstrated during this seminar
• Discover ethical risk-management methods, to effectively advocate for youth who self-injure, to minimize professional risks and  maximize outcome for your clients 
• Discuss case studies relevant to the treatment of self-injury

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Continuing Education Information
This educational offering is designed to qualify for continuing education for many professionals in every state.


Materials that are included in this course could include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice for your profession. As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your professions standards.


Listed below are the continuing education credit(s) currently available for this educational offering. Please note, your state licensing board dictates what is an acceptable form of continuing education. Please refer to your state rules and regulations. If your profession is not listed, please contact your licensing board to determine your continuing education requirements and check for reciprocal approval. For other credit inquiries not specified below, please contact customerservice@vyne.com or 800-397-0180.


CE information is based on 100% attendance.

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Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors

This educational offering has been approved by Vyne Education, LLC., as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for 6 continuing education hours. NAADAC Provider #77600, Vyne Education, LLC. is responsible for all aspects of their programming. Content includes elements of one of the NAADAC 8 Counselor Skills Group. Full attendance is required to receive credit, variable credit for partial attendance may not be awarded based on the NAADAC guidelines.

Counselors: This educational offering qualifies for 6 continuing education hours as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Save your course outline and certificate of completion, and contact your own board or organization for specific filing requirements.

Counselors: This educational offering qualifies for 6 continuing education hours as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Save your course outline and certificate of completion, and contact your own board or organization for specific filing requirements.

Counselors - Illinois: Vyne Education, LLC. is a registered counselor continuing education sponsor approved through the State of Illinois Department of Professional Regulation (license # 197-000144). This educational offering is offered for six (6) contact hours of continuing education for counselors. Licensed counselors in other states should contact their individual state jurisdiction to review the current continuing education requirements for licensure renewal.

Counselors - New York: Vyne Education, LLC., is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0027. This educational offering is acceptable for 6 continuing education hours. Full attendance is required to receive credit for Mental Health Counselors; variable credit for partial attendance may not be awarded based on the State Board guidelines.

Counselors - Ohio
Vyne Education, LLC. is approved through the State of Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist Board (provider #RCT091001). This educational offering is offered for six (6) clock hours of continuing education for counselors only. Licensed counselors in other states should contact their individual state jurisdiction to review the current continuing education requirements for licensure renewal.

Counselors - South Carolina: Vyne Education, LLC. is an approved sponsor with the South Carolina Board of Examiners for LPC, AC and MFTs (Provider #104). This educational offering is offered for 6 continuing education hours.

Counselor - Texas: Vyne Education, LLC. is an approved sponsor of continuing education for licensed professional counselors through the Texas State Board of Examiners of Professional Counselors (Provider number 2709). This course is offered for 6 clock hours.

Counselors - California: The State of California, Board of Behavioral Sciences will recognize and accept continuing education programs that are sponsored by providers approved by the American Psychological Association and the ASWB. Full attendance at this course will qualify for 6.0 hours of continuing education credit.

Counselors - Florida: Vyne Education, LLC. is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling Provider #50-466. This educational offering is approved for 6 continuing education credits.

Marriage & Family Therapists: This educational offering qualifies for 6 continuing education hours as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Save your course outline and certificate of completion, and contact your own board or organization for specific filing requirements.

Marriage & Family Therapists - Illinois: Vyne Education, LLC. is a registered marriage and family therapist continuing education sponsor approved through the State of Illinois Department of Professional Regulation (license # 168-000172). This educational offering is offered for six (6) contact hours of continuing education for marriage and family therapist. Licensed marriage and family therapist in other states should contact their individual state jurisdiction to review the current continuing education requirements for licensure renewal.

Marriage & Family Therapists - New York: Vyne Education, LLC., is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0020. This educational offering is acceptable for 6 continuing education hours. Full attendance is required to receive credit for Marriage and Family Therapists; variable credit for partial attendance may not be awarded based on the State Board guidelines.

Marriage & Family Therapists - Ohio
Vyne Education, LLC. is approved through the State of Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist Board (provider #RCT091001). This educational offering is offered for six (6) clock hours of continuing education for marriage family therapists only. Licensed marriage and family therapists in other states should contact their individual state jurisdiction to review the current continuing education requirements for licensure renewal.

Marriage & Family Therapists - South Carolina: Vyne Education, LLC. is an approved sponsor with the South Carolina Board of Examiners for LPC, AC and MFTs (Provider #104). This educational offering is offered for 6 continuing education hours.

Marriage & Family Therapists - Texas: Vyne Education, LLC. is an approved sponsor of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists through the Texas State Board of Examiners of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider number 195). This educational offering is offered for 6 clock hours.

Marriage & Family Therapists - California: The State of California, Board of Behavioral Sciences will recognize and accept continuing education programs that are sponsored by providers approved by the American Psychological Association and the ASWB. Full attendance at this course will qualify for 6.0 hours of continuing education credit.

Marriage & Family Therapists - Florida: Vyne Education, LLC. is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling Provider #50-466. This educational offering is approved for 6 continuing education credits.

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Psychologists
Vyne Education, LLC. is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Vyne Education, LLC. maintains responsibility for this program and its content. This educational offering offers 6 CE credits for psychologists. Full attendance is required to receive credit for psychologist, variable credit for partial attendance may not be awarded based on the APA guidelines.

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Social Workers

Vyne Education, LLC. provider #1005, "formerly Cross Country Education" is approved as a provider for social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB), through the Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program (an approved provider since 1999, approved period 1/27/2018-1/27/2021). Vyne Education, LLC. maintains responsibility for the program. Social workers will receive 6 Clinical continuing education clock hours for participating in this educational offering. Licensed social workers should contact their individual state jurisdiction to review the current continuing education requirements for licensure renewal. Visit ASWB's website at www.aswb.org for more information. This educational offering is at the Intermediate level for social workers.

Social Workers - Florida: Vyne Education, LLC. is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling Provider #50-466. This educational offering is approved for 6 continuing education credits.

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Social Workers - New York
Vyne Education, LLC., SW CPE is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed Social Workers #0043. This educational offering is acceptable for 6 continuing education hours. Full attendance is required to receive credit for Social Workers; variable credit for partial attendance may not be awarded based on the State Board guidelines.

Social Workers - California: The State of California, Board of Behavioral Sciences will recognize and accept continuing education programs that are sponsored by providers approved by the American Psychological Association and the ASWB. Full attendance at this course will qualify for 6.0 hours of continuing education credit.

Ethics: This educational offering is offered for 6 hours of continuing education of which 3 hours includes discussion of ethics issues.

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Other Professions
This educational offering qualifies for 6 continuing education hours as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Save your course outline and certificate of completion, and contact your own board or organization for specific filing requirements.

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Educators: This educational offering may qualify toward your professional development requirement. The educational offering consists of 6 clock hours. Use this information and your board rules and regulations to calculate professional development/continuing education credit.