Self-injury

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Lader, Wendy, 1952- presenter.

American Psychological Association, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Self-mutilation--Treatment.

Self-mutilation.

Self-Injurious Behavior--therapy.

Medical Subjects:

Self-Injurious Behavior--therapy.

Genre:

Nonfiction films

Educational films

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 streaming video file (96 min., 16 sec.))

Place of Publication:

[Washington, D.C.] American Psychological Association [2023]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

video file

Summary:

In Self-Injury, Dr. Wendy Lader demonstrates her brief analytic approach to working with clients who purposefully injure themselves. Self-injury, which often takes the form of cutting or burning, is best viewed as a coping strategy: Clients usually injure themselves because they want to avoid some painful emotion, and self-injury brings a sense of control over these unwanted feelings. Dr. Wendy Lader's approach is to analyze early childhood beliefs and relationships and then incorporate psychoeducation and cognitive-behavioral strategies into the session. Interventions are designed to reduce self-injury by increasing awareness of impulsive behavior and expressing any avoided emotions. In this session, Dr. Wendy Lader works with a teenage girl who began cutting herself soon after her mother remarried. Dr. Wendy Lader talks with the client about the loss of her father, then gives the client a tool to help her monitor the emotions she experiences preceding the impulse to cut herself. This is an excellent example of a first session with an adolescent client who self-injures

Notes:

Recording date: 2005-09-21

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