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Breaking the Habit of Self-Harm


Faculty:
David Kamen, PhD,
Duration:
5 Hours 25 Minutes
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
Dec 30, 2015
Product Code:
WDD020031
Brochure Code:
WDBHBREAK (B)
Media Type:
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Description

An Integrative Approach to the Rising Challenge of Self–Injury
Whether engaging in cutting, purging, compulsive skin–picking, or another form of self–injury, children and adolescents who deliberately harm themselves are all at risk of becoming emotionally isolated, socially alienated, and suicidal. Feelings of shame and embarrassment can quickly lead to a downward spiral, driving some to console themselves in seclusion, while others develop enabling relationships among self–injuring peers—further intensifying the lethality and suicidal intent of their acts.

Fully equip yourself to face the rising challenge of self–injury with the evidence–based assessment and treatment strategies presented in this interactive seminar. Discuss the reasons for self–harm, its emotionally and socially isolating impact, and the self–fueling dynamics of self–injury subculture. Investigate popular influences behind the rising incidence of self–harm among children and teenagers. Finally, analyze the impact of overlapping psychiatric disorders on treatment, and explore evolving applications of interrelated DSM-5® information concerning self–injury, major depressive disorder, OCD, eating disorders, substance abuse, and more. If you've ever felt ill–prepared to help these children or experienced periods of burnout as a clinician after an especially difficult case, this course will profoundly impact your practice.

 


Course Content

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)

Credits


Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors

This course has been approved by , as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for 6 continuing education hour(s). NAADAC Provider #77600, 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 - Florida

is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling Provider #50-466. This program is approved for 6 continuing education credit(s).


Counselors - Ohio

is approved through the State of Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist Board (provider #RCT091001). This program is offered for six (6) clock hour(s) 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

is an approved sponsor with the South Carolina Board of Examiners for LPC, AC and MFTs (Provider #104). This program is offered for 6 continuing education hour(s).


Counselors - Texas

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 hour(s).


Educators

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


Ethics

This educational offering is offered for 6 hour(s) of continuing education of which 1 hour(s) includes discussion of ethics issues.


Marriage and Family Therapists - Florida

is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling Provider #50-466. This program is approved for 6 continuing education credit(s).


Marriage and Family Therapists - Ohio

is approved through the State of Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist Board (provider #RCT091001). This program is offered for six (6) clock hour(s) of continuing education for counselors and marriage family therapists. Licensed counselors and marriage and family therapists in other states should contact their individual state jurisdiction to review the current continuing education requirements for licensure renewal.


Marriage and Family Therapists - South Carolina

is an approved sponsor with the South Carolina Board of Examiners for LPC, AC and MFTs (Provider #104).  This program is offered for 6 continuing education hour(s).


Marriage and Family Therapists - Texas

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 course is offered for 6 clock hour(s).


Other Professions

This educational offering qualifies for 6 continuing education hour(s) 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. 


Psychologists

is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. maintains responsibility for this program and its content. This program offers 6 CE credit(s) 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.


Social Workers - Florida

is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling Provider #50-466. This program is approved for 6 continuing education credit(s).


Social Workers - New York

, 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 hour(s). 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.



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Faculty

David Kamen, PhD, Related seminars and products


DAVID KAMEN, PhD, is a clinical psychologist licensed in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, where he works regularly with children and adolescents who engage in self-injurious behavior. In full-time practice for almost 15 years, Dr. Kamen makes frequent use of psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, and family systems approaches. As a disability examiner, certified guardian ad litem, and professional conduct investigator for the New Hampshire Board of Mental Health Practice, Dr. Kamen has also served as a forensic psychologist to address the issues of self-injury in victims of child abuse and neglect. He has presented his research at numerous professional associations and is currently writing a book on childhood self-injury.


Target Audience

Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, Psychiatric Nurses, Case Managers, Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors, Mental Health Administrators, Educators, Guidance Counselors

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