Making a Difference in the Lives of Students (GSCA 2023 Annual Conference)

November 1–3, 2023

Augusta, Georgia

Middle Level Students and Self-Injury: Dialectical Behavior Therapy Interventions

Thursday, November 2, 2023 at 11:30 AM–12:30 PM EDT

Oglethorpe E

Target Audience

Middle

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Intermediate Counselors (5-10 years)

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Student Focused

Abstract

Self-injury is a common, destructive, and alarming behavior among adolescents. Marsha Linehan's Dialectical Behavior Therapy provides techniques that allow counselors to address this phenomenon in a safe and clinically supportive manner. Understanding the psychology of self-injury and basic (DBT) strategies can help school counselors differentiate self-injury from suicidal ideation, address self-injury in a supportive and direct manner, and help prevent future self injury in students.