Date: Friday, January 20, 2006, 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Presenter: Linda Spielman and Amanda McRae
Location: Austin Child Guidance Center, 810 W. 45th St., Austin, TX 78751
Cost: $10 charge for c.e.u.’s. There is no charge if you don’t want c.e.u.’s.
To Register: Email trainings@austinchildguidance.org or call Chelsea Griffo at 512-451-2242. Space is limited.
Learning Objectives:
The participants will be able to:
- Understand different typologies of self-harming clients,
- Identify warning signs of self-injurious behavior,
- Assess need for inpatient care, and
- Develop therapeutic relationships with clients who self-injure.
About the Presentation:
Cutting, burning, scratching bruising – Deliberate self-harm is one of the most misdiagnosed and misunderstood behaviors of adults and teens. As the incidence of this behavior increases nationwide, mental health practitioners must learn to identify and treat self-injurious behaviors. This workshop will provide information, assessment guidelines, and hands-on treatment techniques with perspectives from theory, research, and the field. A client who has recovered from using self injury will speak about her experiences.
About the Presenters:
Linda Spielman has nineteen years experience in the field of social work as a psychotherapist, program director and professional trainer. Linda and her self-injury group were featured on the Today Show and regularly provide trainings on self-injury for therapists, teens, parents and schools. She utilizes attachment theory, family systemic therapy, Kohutian theory and dialectical behavior therapy in her treatment of self-injurers.
Amanda McRae is a native Austinite who has been working as a social worker in public schools for six years. After noticing a trend of self-injurious behavior among her clients in schools and her previous work in child abuse, she began researching deliberate self-harm in 2001 and founded the Austin Self-Harm Education Network (ASHEN) in 2002. While maintaining her regular job supervising school based social services, Amanda stays abreast of current research trends, and holds trainings and consultations around Texas to disseminate research on the topic of deliberate self-harm.
