Description
Treating Self-injury
Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is a common but often misunderstood behavior, particularly in adolescents and young adults. Join global authority Barent Walsh and other leading experts in this insightful online course on best practice treatment of self-injury.
Treating self-injury requires understanding its unique characteristics and how it differs from suicidal behaviors. In this course, you’ll learn about the function, comorbidities and best treatment approaches for self-injury. You’ll be taught how to approach clients with mild to moderate self-injury using best practice CBT, incorporating a range of DBT strategies and interventions. Additionally, you’ll learn how to skillfully refer on severely affected clients and patients for treatments such as full modal DBT.
Full of dependable expert advice, realistic role-plays, revealing case studies and numerous tips and techniques, this course will provide you with new strategies to compassionately help clients successfully move away from self-injury behaviors.
Course Goals
Identify non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) and differentiate it from suicidal thoughts and behaviors
Dispel common myths and misunderstandings about NSSI
Understand how non-suicidal self-injury works to alleviate emotional discomfort
Learn and witness tried and true strategies for effectively engaging clients, reducing resistance and increasing willingness to change
Develop key therapist skills such as how to validate NSSI without condoning it and how to manage risk
Understand best treatment approaches and recovery from non-suicidal self-injury, including setbacks
Understand best practices in distraction techniques
Overcome professional fear and feel competent in treating people with NSSI
Prioritize therapist self-care and prevention of compassion fatigue
What you’ll learn
Course modules
Module 1What is NSSI?
Lesson 1 Introduction to Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) Medustudy
Lesson 2 Welcome to the course Medustudy
Lesson 3 Lived experience: introduction Medustudy
Lesson 4 Meet the experts Medustudy
Lesson 5 What is self-injury? Medustudy
Lesson 6 Classification of self-injury Medustudy
Lesson 7 Expert interview: the function of self-injury Medustudy
Lesson 8 Lived experience: emotions Medustudy
Lesson 9 Quiz questions (CE) Medustudy
Module 2Differentiating suicide and self-injury
Lesson 1 The function of suicide vs self-injury Medustudy
Lesson 2 Pay attention to the method Medustudy
Lesson 3 Frequency Medustudy
Lesson 4 Means safety Medustudy
Lesson 5 Empirical link Medustudy
Lesson 6 Lived experience interview: suicide Medustudy
Lesson 7 Expert interview: suicide Medustudy
Lesson 8 Summary Medustudy
Lesson 9 Quiz questions (CE) Medustudy
Module 3The informal response
Lesson 1 Lived experience: attention seeking Medustudy
Lesson 2 Compassionately dispassionate Medustudy
Lesson 3 Respectful curiosity Medustudy
Lesson 4 Checklist for direct and indirect self-injury Medustudy
Lesson 5 Role-play: compassionate curiosity Medustudy
Lesson 6 Using humour Medustudy
Lesson 7 Role-play: session with Alicia Medustudy
Lesson 8 Lived experience: building relationships Medustudy
Lesson 9 Wrap up Medustudy
Lesson 10 Expert interview: validation and identity Medustudy
Lesson 11 Quiz questions (CE) Medustudy
Module 4Assessment part 1
Lesson 1 Introduction to assessment Medustudy
Lesson 2 Antecedents one Medustudy
Lesson 3 Antecedents two Medustudy
Lesson 4 Antecedent example Medustudy
Lesson 5 Urge charting Medustudy
Lesson 6 Roleplay one: wounds Medustudy
Lesson 7 Role play two: wounds Medustudy
Lesson 8 Lived experience: scars and wounds Medustudy
Lesson 9 Quiz questions (CE) Medustudy
Module 5Assessment part 2
Lesson 1 Lived experience: experience of self-injury Medustudy
Lesson 2 Does it hurt? Medustudy
Lesson 3 Roleplay: does it hurt? Medustudy
Lesson 4 Hidden vs exposed Medustudy
Lesson 5 Use of tool: time of day Medustudy
Lesson 6 Words incised Medustudy
Lesson 7 Atypical severe NSSI Medustudy
Lesson 8 Role-play: foreign body ingestion part 1 Medustudy
Lesson 9 Role-play: foreign body ingestion part 2 Medustudy
Lesson 10 Quiz questions (CE) Medustudy
Module 6Assessment part 3
Lesson 1 Expert interview: motivation to change Medustudy
Lesson 2 Cyber space Medustudy
Lesson 3 Consequences of self-injury Medustudy
Lesson 4 Role-play: consequences of self-injury Medustudy
Lesson 5 End of assessment Medustudy
Lesson 6 Role-play: end of assessment Medustudy
Lesson 7 Role-play: short term therapy Medustudy
Lesson 8 Intervention story Medustudy
Lesson 9 Summary Medustudy
Lesson 10 Lived experience: do you want to stop? Medustudy
Lesson 11 Quiz questions (CE) Medustudy
Module 7Social contagion
Lesson 1 Expert interview: self-injury in schools Medustudy
Lesson 2 Social contagion Medustudy
Lesson 3 Example and group recommendations Medustudy
Lesson 4 Role-play: social contagion Medustudy
Lesson 5 Reinforcing social contagion Medustudy
Lesson 6 Lived experience: schools Medustudy
Module 8Treatment part 1
Lesson 1 Lived experience: therapy Medustudy
Lesson 2 Treatment Medustudy
Lesson 3 SUD scale Medustudy
Lesson 4 Distract skills Medustudy
Lesson 5 Mindful breathing Medustudy
Lesson 6 Role-play: mindful breathing – SUDs Medustudy
Lesson 7 Flexibility with mindful breathing Medustudy
Lesson 8 Visualization Medustudy
Lesson 9 Role-play: visualization Medustudy
Lesson 10 Matching skills to clients Medustudy
Lesson 11 Role-play: introducing DBT Medustudy
Lesson 12 Expert interview: DBT replacement behaviors Medustudy
Lesson 13 Lived experience: DBT Medustudy
Lesson 14 Quiz questions (CE) Medustudy
Module 9Treatment part 2
Lesson 1 Negative replacement behaviors Medustudy
Lesson 2 Vigorous exercise Medustudy
Lesson 3 Artistic expression Medustudy
Lesson 4 Phone apps Medustudy
Lesson 5 Reviewing replacement skills Medustudy
Lesson 6 Role-play: reviewing replacement skills Medustudy
Lesson 7 Relapse Medustudy
Lesson 8 Expert interview: setbacks and recovery Medustudy
Lesson 9 Lived experience: hospitals Medustudy
Lesson 10 Expert interview: DBT treatment Medustudy
Lesson 11 Role-play: introducing DBT Medustudy
Lesson 12 Expert interview: DBT replacement behaviors Medustudy
Lesson 13 Lived experience: DBT Medustudy
Lesson 14 Quiz questions (CE) Medustudy
Module 10Self-care
Lesson 1 Introduction Medustudy
Lesson 2 Self-care Medustudy
Lesson 3 Relationships Medustudy
Lesson 4 Support for practice Medustudy
Lesson 5 Provider resilience app Medustudy
Lesson 6 Pacing of clients Medustudy
Lesson 7 Wrap up Medustudy
Lesson 8 Quiz questions (CE) Medustudy
