David G. Kamen – Self-Injury Assessment & Treatment: Clinical Strategies When Your Client’s Answer to Pain Brings More Pain

David G. Kamen – Self-Injury Assessment & Treatment: Clinical Strategies When Your Client’s Answer to Pain Brings More PainDescriptionWhether the behavior is cutting, burning, piercing, starving, purging, head banging, or some other method, self-harming behaviors and the emotions underlying them know no bounds with respect to race, ethnicity, age, socioeconomic class, or gender. Feeling shame and embarrassment, those who engage in self-harm may privately console themselves, or befriend other self-injurious peers – which can further intensify the lethality and suicidal intent of their acts. Studies show that professionals who work with adults and youth who self-injure find it to be one of the most challenging psychological issues to treat.David Kamen, PhD, will equip you with practical, evidence-based tools to assess and treat deliberate self-harm, along with other co-morbid psychiatric disorders including major depressive disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, eating disorders, and substance abuse. Effective triage, coordination of care, and risk-management practices for your work with self-injury patients, their parents, families, and friends will be addressed.The theoretical and cultural reasons for this epidemic will be explored. Practical approaches that work for individual, group, and family psychotherapy in inpatient, outpatient, school, and community settings will be shared, along with resources to prepare professionals and caregivers to help those who engage in self-injury.HandoutsManual – Self-Injury Assessment & Treatment (12.64 MB) 78 Pages Available after PurchaseOutlineSELF-INJURY DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT COORDINATION Review the spectrum of self-injurious behaviorsEpidemiology of adult and youth self-injuryTriage of self-Injury, including:Level-of-care assessmentLethality risk- and protective-factor assessmentFunctional behavioral analysis of self-injuryDSM-5® and ICD-10 diagnostic advancesMental status examinationIdentification and treatment of co-morbid disordersTreatment planningCoordination of care amongst mental health professionals, educators, and healthcare professionalsSpecialized clinical personality and art therapy assessmentCOGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL, NEUROBIOLOGICAL, FAMILY SYSTEMS, AND PSYCHODYNAMIC ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT APPROACHES:Motivational interviewing; development of therapeutic allianceExposure with response prevention to extinguish self-injurious behaviorsDialectical behavior therapy tacticsCoping skills to break the habit of self-injuryIntersubjective and interpersonal therapeutic communication techniquesThe corrective emotional experience and empathic dialogueExposure and resolution of self-injury defense mechanismsPROFESSIONAL ETHICS, CASE MANAGEMENT, AND LIABILITY RISK MANAGEMENTReview of bioethical and legal risk management principles, includingHIPAA compliance, duty-to-warn issues; ethical and legal dilemmasTips for:Professional self-carePeer-to-peer collaboration and supervision, to prevent clinician burnout and vicarious traumatizationREVIEW OF PROFESSIONAL, PATIENT, AND CONSUMER-FOCUSED INTERNET RESOURCES AND APPS FOR:Self-injury psychoeducationClinical assessmentMotivational and therapeutic alliance-assessmentMental health case law and professional ethics websitesSelf-monitoring of self-injury thoughts, feelings, and behaviorsInternet resources that are immediately usable for schools, parents, and clientsEducational and therapeutic use of social networking sitesYouTubeFacebookOtherFacultyDavid G. Kamen, PH.D.David Kamen, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist licensed in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, where he works regularly with adults, adolescents, and children who engage in self-injurious behavior. He has worked with professionals and educators through his practice, and through his work in community mental health and emergency room settings. In full-time practice for many years, Dr. Kamen has been counseling self-injurious patients through individual and group therapy formats, using psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral and family systems approaches.Dr. Kamen has also served as a forensic psychologist to address the issues of self-injury in victims of child abuse and neglect. His research has been presented at the International Society for the Study of Self-Injury (ISSS), the American Psychological Association (APA), Saint Anselm College of Nursing, Continuing Education, and featured in The International Journal of Behavioral Consultation and Therapy, as well as The New Hampshire Trial Bar News. Dr. Kamen has been teaching continuing education workshops on the treatment of self-injury since 2009, and is currently writing a book on self-injury.Speaker Disclosures:Financial: David Kamen has an employment relationship with The Counseling Center of Nashua. He receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.Non-financial: David Kamen is a member of the American Psychological Association.