Understanding Non-Suicidal Self-Injury and Increasing Safety: A Trauma-Informed Approach
Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) has increased over the past 10 years, especially among children and adolescents. This training course is ideal for clinicians and school-based staff who want to better understand ways to support students who have urges and engage in NSSI. The presenter will challenge misconceptions about how discussions surrounding NSSI are approached. Training participants will learn about the features of NSSI and have the opportunity to discuss risk and protective factors influential in the increase or reduction of NSSI in youth. The course will review trauma-informed interview questions and interventions with the goal of generating comprehensive safety plan efforts. Participants will engage in discussions surrounding ways to best communicate with students, caregivers, and coordinate continuity of care with other educational staff and community-based resources.
https://nefesh.org/workshops/nonsuicidal/viewFREE WEBINAR
Learning Objectives:
- grasp a better understanding of NSSI and correlated influences
- learn trauma informed ways to interview and assess for severity of safety
- identify ways to utilize treatment interventions in partnership with school teams and family support.
- generate a comprehensive safety plan that can be implemented at home and in school.
Agenda:
- Self-injury & Nonsuicidal Self-Injury (NSSI) (20 min)
- Identify common myths
- Differentiate between self-injury with and without suicidal ideation
- Ways to reduce the stigma on the subject
- Forms and methods of self-injury
- Influential Factors to engaging in self-injury (30 min)
- Risk factors and protective factors
- Individualized purpose/reason individuals engage in self-injurious behaviors
- Neuropsychological influences behind self-injury
- Assessment of self-injury (30 min)
- Warning signs of self-injury
- Explore the HIRE Model
- Using the C-SSRS to assess self-injury accompanied by suicidal ideation
- Different screening tools to assess and explore one’s NSSI in a clinical and in-school environment
- Interventions used to increase safety to reduce self-injury (30 min)
- Engaging in effective communication on the subject matter
- Recommended forms of evidence-based treatment
- Safety plan for home and school
- Collaboration with school teams
- MTSS – tier services and supports
- Partnership between home and school
This presentation is open to:
- Social Workers
- Professional Counselors
- Therapists
- Psychologists
- Licensed Mental Health Practitioners
- Medical Doctors and Other Health Professionals
- Other professionals interacting with populations engaged in mental health based services
Course Level: introductory
Level of Clinician: beginner
- New practitioners who wish to gain enhanced insight surrounding the topic
- Experienced practitioners who seek to increase and expand fundamental knowledge surrounding the subject matter
- Advanced practitioners seeking to review concepts and reinforce practice skills and/or access additional consultation
- Managers seeking to broaden micro and/or macro perspectives
Participants will receive their certificate electronically upon completion of the webinar and course evaluation form.
Disability Access - If you require ADA accommodations, please contact our office 30 days or more before the event. We cannot ensure accommodations without adequate prior notification.
Please Note: Licensing Boards change regulations often, and while we attempt to stay abreast of their most recent changes, if you have questions or concerns about this course meeting your specific board’s approval, we recommend you contact your board directly to obtain a ruling.
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Satisfactory Completion Participants must have paid the tuition fee, logged in and out each day, attended the entire workshop, and completed an evaluation to receive a certificate (If this is a pre-recorded program, a post-test with a passing grade of 80% to receive a certificate.) Failure to log in or out will result in forfeiture of credit for the entire course. No exceptions will be made. Partial credit is not available. Certificates are available after satisfactory course completion by clicking here.
There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program.
- CE You! is an approved sponsor of the Maryland Board of Social Work Examiners for continuing education credits for licensed social workers in Maryland.
CE You! maintains responsibility for this program. - CE You LLC 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 #SW-0437
Refund Policy:
Full Refund until 48 hours before scheduled date.
48 hours before: full refund less $5.00 processing fee. After event no refund will be given.
*exclusions apply for reasonable need and cause.