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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.

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Understanding Non-Suicidal Self-Injury and Increasing Safety:
A Trauma-Informed Approach

Previously Recorded
$39.99 Dr. Lauren Colston

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.

About the Presenter

Dr. Lauren Colston is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist in Washington DC, Maryland, and Virginia. She is also a nationally registered Health Service Psychologist who has been in the field of clinical psychology for approximately 18 years. Dr. Lauren has provided therapeutic support to children, adolescents, and adults dealing with a range of mental health concerns in service areas such as Los Angeles California, North Carolina, and here in the DMV area. She is considered a subject matter expert in non-suicidal self-injury, crisis response and prevention, child & adolescent psychology, and the implementation of mental health services in the education system.

This workshop Offers 2 Continuing Education Credits
This webinar is recorded and will not grant live credits.

Understanding Non-Suicidal Self-Injury and Increasing Safety:
A Trauma-Informed Approach

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Presenter: Dr. Lauren Colston

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Course Length: 2 Hours

Learning Objectives:

  1. Grasp a better understanding of NSSI and correlated influences
  2. Learn trauma informed ways to interview and assess for severity of safety
  3. Identify ways to utilize treatment interventions in partnership with school teams and family support.
  4. Generate a comprehensive safety plan that can be implemented at home and in school.

This workshop Offers 2 Continuing Education Credits
This webinar is recorded and will not grant live credits.

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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.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Grasp a better understanding of NSSI and correlated influences
  2. Learn trauma informed ways to interview and assess for severity of safety
  3. Identify ways to utilize treatment interventions in partnership with school teams and family support.
  4. Generate a comprehensive safety plan that can be implemented at home and in school.

Agenda:
  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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. The grievance policy for trainings provided by the NEFESH INTERNATIONAL is available here 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 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
  • 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. These credits are also accepted by the Maryland Boards for Professional Counselors, Psychology, and Certification of Residential Child Care Program Professionals, and many other states and disciplines
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48 hours before: full refund less $5.00 processing fee. After event no refund will be given.
*exclusions apply for reasonable need and cause.