(SM)Treatment of Nonsuicidal Self-Injury in Adolescents

Course overview

Topics included in this course are: Motivations for Self-Injurious Behavior; Self-Injury and The Role of Dissociation; Impact of Poor Psychiatric Hospitalization; Predictors of Self-Injurious Behaviors in Adolescents; Self-Injurious Thoughts and Behaviors; Parents' Role in Adolescent Self-Injury; Self-Injury Behavior Therapy; Self-Efficacy and Self-Injury; Mental and Personality Disorder's Role in Self-Harm; Characterizing Self-Injurious Cognitions; Cultural Values and Self-Harm; Self-Injuring and Relationships; Dialectal Behavior Therapy for Self-injury; Interventions for Self-Injury; Body Narcissism; Self-Mutilating Clients; Anorexia and Self-Harm; Predictors of Self-Harm; Characteristics of Self-Injurers; Self-Injurious Behavior; Coping with Stress Violently; Clinically Based Prediction Models in Assessing Dangerousness; Countertransference and Self-Harm; Pain and Transcendence of the Self; Self-Mutilation & Prison; and Self-Mutilation as Self-Initiation.