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Kress, Victoria E.; Adamson, Nicole; DeMarco, Carrie; Paylo, Matthew J.; Zoldan, Chelsey A. – Journal of Creativity in Mental Health, 2013
This article presents guided imagery as an intervention that can be used to address clients' nonsuicidal self-injurious behaviors. Guided imagery is a behavioral therapy technique that involves the use of positive thoughts or images to regulate negative emotional experiences, and it can be used to prevent and manage impulses to self-injure.…
Descriptors: Intervention, Self Destructive Behavior, Imagery, Counselor Client Relationship
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Verte, Lotte; De Moor, Gerrit – Reclaiming Children and Youth, 2013
Life Space Crisis Intervention (LSCI) is a therapeutic, verbal strategy for intervention with students in crisis. It explores a student's reactions to stressful events to gain insight into thinking, feelings, and behavior in order to strengthen resilience and self-esteem (Long, Wood, & Fecser, 2001). By exploring timelines of challenging…
Descriptors: Intervention, Self Destructive Behavior, Child Behavior, Behavior Modification
Carroll, Crystal; Olwig, Heather; Vasquez, Melissa – Communique, 2011
When students reach adolescence, they have often been known to devise destructive outlets for their self-expression (e.g., suggestive dress, tattoos, piercing, and sexual risk-taking). Recently growing in popularity, to almost epidemic proportions in the general adolescent population, is the act of self-injury. Self-injury refers to the…
Descriptors: Intervention, Self Destructive Behavior, Injuries, Adolescents
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Lloyd-Richardson, Elizabeth E. – Prevention Researcher, 2010
While awareness of non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) appears to be increasing among school counselors, social workers, nurses, and others who work with youth, it remains one of the most difficult behaviors to encounter, with few professionals feeling well equipped to handle these situations. This introductory article aims to define NSSI, describe…
Descriptors: Injuries, Suicide, At Risk Persons, Adolescents
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Whitlock, Janis; Eells, Greg; Cummings, Nina; Purington, Amanda – Journal of College Student Psychotherapy, 2009
Concern about the prevalence of nonsuicidal self-injury is widespread. Members of an electronic listserv for college counseling center directors nationwide were invited to participate in a Web survey to investigate provider experience with nonsuicidal self-injury; 290 surveys were analyzed. Most respondents perceived recent increases in…
Descriptors: Counseling Services, Incidence, Injuries, Behavior Modification
Grobman, Jerald – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2009
An eclectic form of psychodynamic psychotherapy is presented to address the emotional problems of exceptionally and profoundly gifted adolescents and adults. The approach includes cognitive/behavioral techniques as well as psychologically informed mentoring, coaching, and advising. Once a psychodynamic formulation was established, it was used to…
Descriptors: Emotional Problems, Gifted, Adolescents, Patients
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Kennard, Betsy D.; Ginsburg, Golda S.; Feeny, Norah C.; Sweeney, Michael; Zagurski, Robin – Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 2005
This article discusses treatment obstacles that were frequently encountered by CBT therapists in the Treatment for Adolescents With Depression Study (TADS) trial. The most common or challenging treatment obstacles and their respective solutions were distilled from the minutes of national conference calls attended by TADS CBT supervisors and…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Cognitive Restructuring, Behavior Modification, Adolescents