Psychology of Self-Harm and Non-Suicidal Self-Injury (NSSI)
Understand the mindset of teens and adults who inflict harm on themselves. And more importantly, learn how to help them!
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What You Will Learn!
- 1. Need for and urgency for learning about non-suicidal self-injury
- 2. The myths of non-suicidal self-injury
- 3. Definition of non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI)
- 4. DSM-5 criteria for Nonsuicidal Self-injury Disorder (NSSID)
- 5. Research findings on NSSI
- 6. Ways people inflict injury on themselves
- 7. Difference of NSSI in males and females
- 8. Personality traits associated with self-injury
- 9. Psychiatric conditions associated with self-injury
- 10. Reasons why people engage in non-suicidal self injury
- 11. Main sources of information on how people learn to injure themselves
- 12. Red flags (warning signs) of self-injury
- 13. Triggers for self-injurious behaviors
- 14. Risks and consequences of self-injury
- 15. The cycle of self-injury
- 16. The addictive potential of self-injurious behavior
- 17. Differences between NSSI and suicide attempts
- 18. Coping methods which self-injurers use for resisting the urge to self-injure
- 19. Therapies and treatment for people who self-injure
- 20. Tips to give parents of self-injurers
- 21. Controlling the spread of NSSI in school among students
- 22. Assessment
- 23. Difficulty of self-injurers to express themselves verbally and journalling
- 24. The power of the therapeutic relationship
- 25. Major goals in helping self-injurers
- 26. Attitudes to keep when helping self-injurers
- 27. Transference and counter-transference issues
- 28. Therapeutic dont's
- 29. Avoid teaching negative coping techniques
- 30. Therapeutic do's
- 31. Healthy coping skills to manage NSSI urges
- 32. Developing a safety plan
- 33. Moving towards a life of wholistic well-being
Description
This is a comprehensive, in-depth, academic, yet easy-to understand introductory course which is jam-packed with 32 topics relevant to the study of self-harm and non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI).
Sadly, non-suicidal self-injury has become a common behavior used by children, teens, and adults for coping with their emotional distress. Most people erroneously equate self-injurious behaviors with suicidality, but this is not always true. Self-injurers have to be treated differently than suicidal people. Moreover, self-injurers need to know that is much hope for them to recover, and that there are people-helpers who can support them in their journey towards having a more positive and meaningful life.
This certificated course will help you: (1) Understand the mindset and behaviors of people who injure themselves. (2) Assess self-injurious behaviors from the self-injurer's perspective. (3) Learn how to help people who injure themselves.
This course is NOT for you if you are depressed, self-injurious, or suicidal.
This is NOT a self-help course for people who are depressed, self-injurious, or suicidal.
This is NOT a skills-building course because skills-building is best done under supervision of a mental health professional in onsite, in-person workshops.
This course is taught by a doctor of both psychiatry and psychology who has had more than 25 years of clinical experience in helping people overcome and heal from their self-injurious tendencies and behaviors.
Who Should Attend!
- Anyone interested in understanding the mindset and behaviors of people who injure themselves.
- Students of psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy, counseling, life coaching, social work, and holistic healing.
- Mental health professionals such as life coaches, counselors, psychologists, and psychiatrists.
- People with friends, partners, family members, or relatives who engage in self-harm or self-injury.
- Mental health advocates.
- Social workers, human resources professionals, church workers, and physicians.
- NOTE: This is NOT a self-help course for people are depressed, self-injurious, or suicidal. If you are experiencing such problems, please seek the help of a mental health professional as soon as possible.
- NOTE: This is NOT a skills-building proficiency course. Skills-building is best done in onsite in-person workshops under the supervision of a mental health professional.
