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Self-injury is a behavior that is not well understood by the clinicians who are asked to treat this problem in their practice. Explore the etiology, community context and approaches to treating this disorder. You also investigate the role of the family system in the manifestation of this disorder and its treatment.
Learner Outcomes
By the end of the course, you should be able to:
- Describe the signs and symptoms of self-injury, and be able to distinguish it from piercing, tattoos, masochism, attention-seeking, suicide or other culturally syntonic behavior
- Explain why self-injury happens, the function it serves, what it means, and what are the underlying considerations and pathologies that evoke this behavior
- List five diagnostic criteria for self-injury
- Identify 3-4 ways self-injury serves a teen who is dealing with difficult family issues
- Describe 4-5 scenarios where the parental dynamic influences self-injury?
- Define and explain the love-attachment-abuse dynamic in self-injurious system
- Determine the role motivational stages play in the treatment of self-injury?
- Understand the relationship between nonsuicidal self-injury and bulimia
- Describe the nature and order of intervention and recovery through varying theoretical models