Description

*Counselors requiring New York State approval must contact ACA upon completion to obtain customized CE certificate

In this session, attendees will learn about evidence-based counseling approaches counselors can use with those who self-injure. The session will provide creative, engaging, interactive, and experiential counseling interventions that can be used in applying evidence-based counseling approaches across counseling settings. Attendees will receive detailed directions for applying the activities.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn the functions self-injury serves and the counseling interventions that can be used to address this behavior and its functions.
• Identify ways counselors can enhance students’/clients’ motivation to cease self-injuring via the use of creative interventions.
• Learn 10 creative counseling interventions (which are rooted in evidence-based treatment approaches) that can be used -when counseling those who self-injure- to aid in the development of emotion regulation skills and an enhanced interest and ability to stop injuring.

Speaker(s):

• Victoria E. Kress, PhD, Professor, Youngstown State University
• Laurie M. Craigen, PhD, Mental Health Counseling and Behavioral Medicine Program, Assistant Professor, Boston University School of Medicine