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