• Interventions to reduce self-harm in youth

Interventions to reduce self-harm in youth

Duration: 7 mins Publication Date: 14 Jul 2023 Next Review Date: 14 Jul 2026 DOI: 10.13056/acamh.13659

Description

Professor Dennis Ougrin discusses self-harm in youth. Highlighting its link to suicide risk, he emphasises timely, therapeutic assessments and immediate follow-up post-emergency room visits. Recommending Dialectical Behaviour Therapy for Adolescents (DBT) for severe and repetitive self-harm, he emphasises the need to address psychiatric disorders alongside self-harm. Ougrin stresses the importance of tailored interventions and the critical period post-hospitalisation for suicide prevention.

Learning Objectives

A. To recognise the increasing prevalence of self-harm among youth and its link to suicide risk
B. To explore the benefits of Therapeutic Assessment in improving treatment attendance for self-harming youth
C. To understand the effectiveness of Dialectical behaviour Therapy for Adolescents (DBT-A) in reducing self-harm incidents in young individuals

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