11 Essentials for Self-Harm Recovery: Helping Children & Teens Reclaim Their Lives

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Tony L. Sheppard, PsyD, CGP, ABPP, AGPA-F Related seminars and products

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Tony Sheppard, PsyD, CGP, ABPP, AGPA-F, specializes in treating young people suffering from psychiatric issues including self-harm and suicide. A licensed psychologist and certified group psychotherapist, Tony brings over 20 years of experience working with children, adolescents, and young adults to his clinical practice. In addition to his private practice, Groupworks, he has trained hundreds of clinicians, educators, nurses, and physicians across the country in the treatment of self-harm and suicide and is the author of a training curriculum in group psychotherapy. He is board certified in group psychology.

Tony’s clinical approach draws from interpersonal neurobiology, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, solution-focused brief therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and positive psychology. His creative and interactive delivery style will draw you into the dire nature of youth suicide and self-harm and have you leave feeling confident and prepared to handle this most important work.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Tony Sheppard is the founder and director of Groupworks Psychological Services and has an employment relationship with Spalding University. He receives royalties as a published author. Dr. Sheppard receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Tony Sheppard has no relevant non-financial relationships.

Objectives

1. Define the scope of non-suicidal self-injury for today's youth as related to clinical treatment
2. Differentiate non-suicidal self-injury from suicide, and it's clinical implications
3. Articulate the underlying motivations for self-harm behavior among young clients
4. Analyze the efficacy of assessment tools for use with young clients who display self-harm behaviors
5. Formulate multisystemic clinical interventiont plans that meet the needs of the youth and collaterals
6. Consider the legal and ethical issues inherent in work with young clients who display self-harm behaviors and their clinical implications

Outline

Defining Non-Suicidal Self-Injury (NSSI)

Conceptualizing the Problem

• Primary motivations
  • Controlling external/internal environment
  • Impacts on various settings
  • Neuropsychology of NSSI
  • NSSI and trauma

Assessing the Problem

• NSSI and suicide
  • Statistics
  • Differential diagnosis
  • Clinical assessment/screening
  • Formal assessment tools
• 5 questions every therapist should ask during assessment

Treating the Problem

• Multi-systemic approach
  • Engaging families, school, peers, social media
  • Determining who needs to know/how much they need to know
• Working with parents
• The role of the school
• The role of peers
• Social media
• Replacement behaviors
• Using the stages of change/MI model in treatment
  • Assessing readiness
  • Gauging interventions
  • Sustaining and maintaining recovery
• 6 key components of therapeutic intervention
  • Developing distraction strategies
  • Building coping skills
  • Enhancing self-esteem and self-acceptance
  • Improving relationships and relational skills
  • Addressing Trauma (“big T” and “little t”)
  • Developing problem-solving skills
• The role of adjunctive therapies

Legal & Ethical Issues

• Assessing properly is key
  • Screening for NSSI at intake
  • Documentation/diagnosis
  • Treatment planning
• Reporting
  • Schools tend to have stricter reporting rules than mental health settings
  • Factors in reporting
  • Involving other professionals
  • Balancing the clinical and the legal

Integration of Learning

• Group treatment planning activity

Target Audience

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

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