Professional Psych Seminars: Online, live and home study continuing education classes for mental health professionals

Online Course - Multi Media

Helping Those Who Hurt Themselves: Understanding and Treating Self Injury

This course runs on PC/Mac

Course Description

Within the past several years, awareness and prevalence of self-injury has increased dramatically. As this behavior continues to increase, clinicians, educators, support staff, and interested others need to have accurate and relevant information regarding the treatment of self-injury. This presentation focuses on providing information critical for those who offer treatment, support, and assistance to those who purposefully injure themselves. Participants receive essential information relating to types of self-injury, reasons for self-injury, models used to explain self-injurious behaviors, and assessment, diagnostic, and treatment issues. Additionally, issues related to self-inflicted violence in schools and other contained environments will be discussed. The content of this course is based on research, evidence-based findings, and clinical experience.

Objective

Participant will receive: (1) essential information relating to types of self-injury (2) reasons for self-injury (3) models used to explain self-injurious behaviors, assessment and diagnostic issues, and treatment issues.

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Price: $119.00

6.0 Credits

Instructor

Tracy Alderman, Ph.D.

Tracy Alderman, Ph.D., is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist and author of The Scarred Soul: Understanding and Ending Self-Inflicted Violence (New Harbinger Publications, 1997) and co-author of Amongst Ourselves: A self-Help Guide for Living with Dissociative Identity Disorder (New Harbinger Publications, 1998). Dr. Alderman is a leading expert in the field of self-injury and has provided numerous trainings and workshops for agencies, educators, clinicians, hospitals, counselors, and parents nationwide.

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How It Works

View the presentation. Classes are broken into small segments of less than 30 minutes, so you can come and go as you please.
Take the quiz. Answer a few questions online after each segment, and grade it online when you're finished with the class.
If you miss a question, you will be supplied with the location on the video where the answer is provided.
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Level of Classes

All of our classes are offered at the intermediate level unless otherwise indicated. All classes are designed for experienced mental health professionals.

Failure To Pass Policy

If the participant fails to pass the CE exam with 75% accuracy or better, one re-test may be requested at no additional charge. After that time, there will be a $20 fee for each re-test.

Refund Policy

We offer a no-risk guarantee for our online courses. You can view any class for three days, and if not satisfied, contact PPS and we will refund your money in full. This refund offer does not apply if you have completed the class and passed the test. If you purchased an online book course, the hard copy of the book must be returned in "new" condition or the price of the book will be deducted from the refund.