course »Dancing in the Darkness: How to Work with Self Harming Behaviors

Date: 2/4/2022, 1:00 pm—4:00 pm
County: -Training Offerings
CEUs: Yes
Location: DISTANCE LEARNING
Sponsor: East Bay Agency for Children
Phone: 510-844-5370, Ext. 4135
Self-Harming behaviors are often disheartening and intimidating for clinicians work with because they don’t know how to interrupt this pattern of behavior. Unfortunately, many clinicians don’t receive training on the physiological and emotional patterns that reinforce self-harming behaviors in clients. In this time of COVID, clinicians must provide virtual sessions which in turn, amplifies the need to intervene effectively while also battling a sense of helplessness to do so. This training empowers clinicians by presenting the physiological and emotional underpinnings of self-harming behaviors and explains how they serve clients. Participants will receive step by step guidelines of how to interact with clients in the short and long term. Participants will leave equipped with practical guidelines and interventions from Marsha Linehan’s Dialectical Behavioral Therapy and non-DBT interventions that have proven helpful for both the clinician and client.