Accelerate Your Understanding of Self-Injury: Save Lives, Foster Connection

This is Level 1 out of 3 and is based upon the first of the books, A Caregiver's Guide to Self-Injury. It addresses information that no other training in DFW provides on this topic.

Details:

• Definition and prevalence.
• Dispel common, hurtful myths
• Distinguish NSSI from suicidal ideation, and
• Proper Assessment to reduce false negatives
• Highlight the 35 forms of NSSI
• Identification of hidden locations
• Tools lying in plain sight and the problems with the "lock it all up" approach
• Key reasons why individuals engage in NSSI, incl. the #1
• Responding to blackmail
• Is it art or NSSI? The tattoo, piercing, and NSSI rule-outs.
• Practical 17 do's and don'ts for responding that can either build rapport or destroy it and increase the risk of suicide
• At least two coping skills to support individuals who self-injure

and MORE!

3 CEUs for LPC, LMFT, LCDC, Social Work

Light Snacks, water, and tea included

This is NOT offered online and there are no plans to give this event again.

This presentation will cover the essentials of Non-Suicidal Self-Injury (NSSI) as provided by an international expert on the topic who has written 4 books, and given over 120 talks & media interviews on the subject nationally & internationally. Ms. Vann has led the only professionally run exclusively NSSI support groups in Texas for teens and women for over 15 years. She has researched and studied the behavior since 2000 and directly worked with over 600 individuals with a history of the behavior.

Host or Publisher Lori Vann Speaking