Statewide Training and Education Coordinator Child Advocacy Centers of Tennessee
When children and adolescents engage in self-harming behaviors, it impacts their everyday life and how responders and providers interact with them. Through one family’s story of the trauma related to self-injurious behavior coupled with the knowledge and experience of a trauma therapist, the session will provide responders and advocates with tools when approaching and working with children and families living with these significant behavioral episodes.
Learning Objectives:
Describe unique ways self-injury presents to identify it and appropriately intervene when present.
List intervention tools to support those engaging in significant behavior.
Provide ways to approach and interact with caregivers when children and adolescents are experiencing self-injurious behaviors.
