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Position Paper for Guiding Response to Non-Suicidal Self-Injury in Schools
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Hasking, Penelope A.; Heath, Nancy L.; Kaess, Michael; Lewis, Stephen P.; Plener, Paul L.; Walsh, Barent W.; Whitlock, Janis; Wilson, Marc S. – School Psychology International, 2016
Around the world, school staff are increasingly expressing concern about nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) and how best to address this behavior in the school setting. However, there is a notable lack of informed guidance for schools, and clear inconsistencies in the practices school staff adopt. In this position paper we draw on our collective…
Descriptors: Position Papers, Self Destructive Behavior, School Counseling, Guidelines
Collaborative Strengths-Based Brief Therapy with Self-Injuring Adolescents and Their Families
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Selekman, Matthew D. – Prevention Researcher, 2010
This article presents a family competency-based treatment approach that capitalizes on the strengths and resources of self-injuring adolescents and their families. Throughout the article, the author provides therapeutic tools and strategies that he has found effective in his clinical practice of working with self-injuring youth and their families…
Descriptors: Counseling Techniques, Adolescents, Psychotherapy, Self Destructive Behavior
School Response to Non-Suicidal Self-Injury
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Toste, Jessica R.; Heath, Nancy L. – Prevention Researcher, 2010
Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is a growing concern among professionals working with youth. Recent studies exploring the occurrence of NSSI in middle and high schools indicate that 15% to 20% of students will admit to having engaged in this behavior at least once. The alarming number of adolescents engaging in NSSI poses a challenge to all…
Descriptors: Injuries, Participative Decision Making, Self Destructive Behavior, Adolescents
The Handbook of High-Risk Challenging Behaviors in People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
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Luiselli, James K., Ed. – Brookes Publishing Company, 2012
Aggressive and destructive behaviors are an ongoing challenge for many children, adolescents, and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD). What's behind these high-risk behaviors, and how can professionals help manage them? Discover the answers in this comprehensive text, the most up-to-date compendium of knowledge on…
Descriptors: Evidence, Obesity, Aggression, Self Destructive Behavior
CCBD's Position Summary on the Use of Seclusion in School Settings
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Peterson, Reece; Albrecht, Susan; Johns, Bev – Behavioral Disorders, 2009
This document provides policy recommendations of the Council for Children with Behavioral Disorders regarding the use of seclusion procedures in schools. It includes (a) an introduction, (b) a declaration of principles, and (c) recommendations regarding the use of seclusion in school settings. Explanation or elaboration of policy recommendations…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Position Papers, Student Behavior, Discipline
Therapeutic Community Principles Guide Systemic Responses to Student Self-Injurious Behavior
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Bigard, Michelle F.; Rapaport, Ross J. – Journal of College Counseling, 2006
This article proposes a framework that can be used by college counselors to assist in the development and implementation of a campus wide intervention that is congruent with sound clinical and administrative practices. A view of self-injurious behavior (SIB) informed by trauma theory espouses clinical treatment and a community response that has a…
Descriptors: Psychotherapy, College Students, Therapeutic Environment, Self Destructive Behavior