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I intended to kill something in me, this awful feeling … So when I discovered the razor blade, cutting, was my gesture of hope. That first time, when I was twelve, was like some kind of miracle, a revelation…As swift and pure as a stroke of lightning, it wrought an absolute and pristine division between before and after. All the chaos, the sound and fury, the uncertainty and confusion and despair—all of it evaporated in an instant, and I was for that moment grounded, coherent, whole. I drew the line in the sand, marked my body as mine, its flesh and its blood under my command.
--C. Kettlewell, Skin Game, 1999
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adolescent self-injury
Dale Wisely, Ph.D.Director of Student Services
Mountain Brook Schools
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What to call this? Self-injury Self-harm Self-inflicted
violence Self-injurious
behavior Self-mutilation Parasuicide Autoaggression “Cutting”
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Nonsuicidal Self-InjuryNSSI
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Some assumptionsSelf-injury is often (mostly?) a coping mechanism to deal with psychological
pain/distress.
Most self-injury involves slight/modest physical damage that leaves little, if any, long-term scarring. Some, however, quite
serious.
Relationship between NSSI and suicidality is not fully understood.
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What are we talking about?
People hurt themselves.
What’s distinctive about this form of hurting oneself?
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These teenagers! Suicide rates are
lower in teenagers than in their parents’ age group.
Substance abuse is more common in adults than in teenagers.
Workplace shootings more common than school shootings.
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Non-Suicidal Self-injury“Direct, deliberate, socially
unacceptable injury of one’s own body tissue without intent to die.”
– Lloyd-Richardson, E. E. Adolescent nonsuicidal self-injury: Who is doing it and why? J. of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics, 29, 216-218.
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MethodsCuttingHitting
Punching/hitting walls
PinchingScratching
BitingBurning
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Demographics
How would we know?
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Classic (pre-1990 or so) understanding of who self-
injures Patients with serious, persistent
disturbance/mental illness (outpatient, inpatient, day treat.)
Patients in psych emergency rooms Incarcerated adults. Youth in special education,
residential treatment, juvenile detention.
Borderline Personality Disorder
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Beginning in the late 1980s…
Seen in broader population outside of psychiatric/incarcerated groups.
Youth in middle & high schools, regular ed, often high functioning
College / University studentsAdults in general population
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State of the Research: Crappy
Research picking up, but still sparse. Lots of inconsistencies, differences in definition, etc.
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APA, 2009.
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Prevalance data4 – 47% in community samples
12 – 82% in clinical samples.
You’re welcome.
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Who? Perhaps more in white adolescents. Females > Males, especially in
clinical settings. (method, bias?) Perhaps more in gay, lesbian,
questioning In majority, begins ages 13-15. Nothing useful known about course.
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Self-injury: Middle & high school
Ross & Heath (2004). Studied 440 youth from urban and suburban Canadian high schools.
14% reported self-injury Of these, 64% were girls, 36% boys. Higher scores for depression and
anxiety. 13%-at least once a day 28%-a couple of times/week. 19%-a couple of times a month
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Self-injury: Middle & high school
Ross & Heath (2004). – 59% started in 7th or 8th grade– 25% started 6th grade or earlier
– Good news: 64% had stopped
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The new self-injurersBarent Walsh’s observations Both genders, females>males, 2:1 No ethnic, racial, economic pattern Start as early as 11-12. Have considerable strengths and
function adequately, or well. Most: not special ed, not discipline
problems, no history of psych treatment
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The new self-injurers Often introduced to cutting by friend(s) Quickly come to rely on it after trying it. Lack healthy coping skills. Body hatred (body alienation) not nearly
as common. Most deny (convincingly) history of
sexual/physical abuse. More prone to give up the behavior after
awhile (highly influenced by peers.)
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Most agree…Previously commonly believed to be
associated only with severe psychiatric illness, now it is too commonplace to be regarded as the product of severe psychiatric illness.
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Risk factors Mental health problems
– Depression– Conduct disorder– Personality disorder – Substance abuse
Triggers?
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Psychiatric disorders, teens, NSSI
Disorder Prevalence in sample with NSSIMajor depression 42%
PTSD 24%
Generalized Anxiety 16%
ANY INTERNALIZING 52%
Conduct Disorder 49%
Oppositional Defiant 45%
ANY EXTERNALIZING 63%
Source: Nock, Joiner, Gordon, et al. Non-suicidal self-injury among adolescents: diagnostic correlates and relationship to suicide attempts. Psychiatry Res 2006; 144(1):68.
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Substance disorders, teens, NSSI
Disorder Prevalence in sample of 89 with NSSI
Alcohol abuse 18%
Alcohol dependence 17%
Nicotine dependence 39%
Marijuana abuse 13%
Marijuana dependence 30%
ANY SUBSTANCE ABUSE D/O
60%
Source: Nock, Joiner, Gordon, et al. Non-suicidal self-injury among adolescents: diagnostic correlates and relationship to suicide attempts. Psychiatry Res 2006; 144(1):68.
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There is no profile.So, here’s a profile. Emotional and somewhat self-
oriented. Emotional environment discourages
expression of anger, sadness. Highly sensitive about interpersonal
status. Sensitive to rejection. Lack of healthy outlet (perhaps
combined with romanticizing of personal pain)
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Hx of child abuse?“Overwhelming evidence points to
robust relationships between child maltreatment and NSSI.” (Yates, 2009) – Some studies are before late ‘80s.– Largely self-reported. – Is abuse a unique risk factor for NSSI or
a more general predictor of psychopathology?
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Media Issues Websites, including some defending
behavior. Movies, TV, Songs
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Movies/Songs with NSSI by year
Whitlock, et al. in Nock’s text.
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Contagion effects Widely recognized in inpatient
settings. Not documented in community
studies. Anecdotes abound. Internet/media effects?
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What does self-injurydo? It relieves, at least partly and
temporarily, overwhelming emotional pain.
It ends numbness, depersonalization, derealization.
NOT attention seeking, typically. NOT manipulative, typically.
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What’s going on?
Favazza (1996). Self-induced body modifications occur in multiple world cultures correct or prevent “a destabilizing condition that threatens the community.” (Angry gods, haunting, conflicts of all sorts, onset of adulthood, immoral or sinful behavior, ecological disasters, etc.)
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Cultural / adaptive
“I do contend that at the deepest, irreducible level, the behaviors are
prophylactic and salubrious for groups of and individuals threatened
by death, disorganization, disease, and discomfort – Armando Favazza
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The self-mutilator can incorporate into his actions patterns which, to a greater or lesser degree, remain unarticulated in most of us.” – E. Podvoll, 1969
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What’s going on?
Feminist analyses: Self-injury linked to increasingly unachievable standards of feminine beauty.
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What’s going on? Environmental influences: Stress,
multitasking, divorce rates, etc.) Media influences: Exposure to self-
injury, confessional interviews (Angelina Jolie, Princess Diana), websites, chat rooms.
Short answer: We don’t know.
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Body piercing, tattooing, etc.
Is this a variant of the same phenomenon?
Seems to have increased during about the same recent time period.
Similar themes: Still mostly unacceptable to polite society. Role of skin. But PAIN not usually the goal, nor is interruption of distress.
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NSSI AND SUICIDALITY
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“ a form of partial suicide, to avert suicide.”
Karl Menninger, 1938
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NSSI and suicide
This behavior is not suicidal in intent. Self-injury can be a way of coping
with suicidal feelings, even preventing, suicide.
But, recent evidence accumulates that people who self-injure are at higher risk for later suicide.
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Self-injurious thoughts and behaviors
Adapted and modified from Nock & Favazza (2009)
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Self-injurious thoughts and behaviors
Suicidal
(Intent to Die)
Non-Suicidal (No Intent to Die)
Adapted and modified from Nock & Favazza (2009)
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Self-injurious thoughts and behaviors
Suicidal
(Intent to Die)
Non-Suicidal (No Intent to Die)
IdeationPlan Preparatio
n
?Threat
s
Attempts
Adapted and modified from Nock & Favazza (2009)
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Self-injurious thoughts and behaviors
Suicidal
(Intent to Die)
Non-Suicidal (No Intent to Die)
IdeationPlan Preparatio
n
?Threat
s
Attempts
Suicide “Gesture
s”
N S S I
Adapted and modified from Nock & Favazza (2009)
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Self-injurious thoughts and behaviors
Suicidal
(Intent to Die)
Non-Suicidal (No Intent to Die)
IdeationPlan Preparatio
n
?Threat
s
Attempts
Suicide “Gesture
s”
N S S I
High Frequency, Low
Intensity
High Intensity, Low Frequency
Adapted and modified from Nock & Favazza (2009)
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Suicide risk 70% of adolescents who engaged in self-
injury had made one suicide attempt; 55% had made multiple attempts. (Source: Nock, Joiner, Gordon, et al. Non-suicidal self-injury among adolescents: diagnostic correlates and relationship to suicide attempts. Psychiatry Res 2006; 144(1):68.
Recommendation:
If NSSI is present, assess for suicidality.
If suicidality is present, assess for NSSI.
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9 points of distinction: Self-injury and suicide (Barent W. Walsh,
2006)Issue Suicide
attemptSelf-injury
1. Intent Escape pain, terminate consciousness
Relief from unpleasant affect (tension, anger, emptiness)
2. Damage/lethality
Serious physical damage, lethal means
Little damage, nonlethal means
3. Chronic, repetitive pattern?
Not typical (Overdose exception)
Typically, yes.
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9 points of distinction: Self-injury and suicide (Barent W. Walsh,
2006)Issue Suicide
attemptSelf-injury
4. Multiple methods of injury?
Not typically Typically, yes
5. Level of psychological pain?
Unendurable, persistent
Variable, but often uncomfortable, intermittent.
6. Constriction of cognition?
Extreme: Suicide as only way out.
Little or no: Choices seen as available.
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9 points of distinction: Self-injury and suicide (Barent W. Walsh,
2006)Issue Suicide
attemptSelf-injury
7. Hopelessness / helplessness?
Yes. Central to suicidality.
Periods of optimism and self-control.
8. Decrease in discomfort after act?
No / not without treatment
Routine rapid improvement.
9. The core problem.
Depression, rage about inescapable, unendurable pain.
Body alienation, body image, temporary relief from episode of psych pain.
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MethodsSuicides, ages 15-24, all races, both sexes
Self-injury
1. Firearm (60%)2. Suffocation (25%)3. Poisoning (6%)4. Fall (3%)5. Other (2%)6. Drowning (1%)7. Fire/burn8. Transportation9. Cut/pierce (0.4%)
1. Cutting, scratching2. Excoriation of
wound3. Self-hitting4. Self-burning5. Head-banging6. Self-inflicted
tattoos7. Other
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Helping
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Faulty Therapist Beliefs about NSSI (Cory Newman)
Clients understand NSSI is harmful and must stop.
Clients will inform therapist each time NSSI occurs.
NSSI, unchecked, will worsen and lead to suicidal behavior.
NSSI merely represents attention-seeking and manipulation.
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Considerations Confidentiality: Does self-injury
trigger a need-to-know disclosure to parents or other third parties?
What further assessment might be triggered when a therapist learns that a patient is self-injuring?– Suicide assessment?– Family?– Substance abuse?
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Responses to youth disclosing self-injury
Avoid bundling self-injury with suicidality. Consider a separate suicide assessment.
Avoid labeling it as “suicide gesture” or “suicide attempt.” Avoid the language of suicidality when referring to the behavior.
Default to the position that the behavior is not attention seeking and not manipulative.
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Responses to youth disclosing self-injury
Generally: Use the language the youth uses. If she says “cut myself” say “cut yourself.”
Try to determine the parameters of the self-injury:
How often? Where on body? How deep? What feelings trigger it?
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Responses to patient disclosing self-injury
Don’t insist on seeing injury.
How much to inquire about the injury?
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Responses to disclosure of self-injury
Helper’s demeanorTypical
– Intense concern and effusive support
– Condemnation, ridicule, threats– Recoil, shock, avoidance,
judgment– Anguish, fear, panic
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The hot response The cool response
– “Big deal.” “So what.” “What else you got?”
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Balanced response
Low key, calm, but not minimizing Concerned but not panic. Responsible Respectful Nonjudgmental compassion Humility Refrain from premature conclusions,
labeling, interpretation, refraining. I have seen this before and I want to
help and I’m not going to add my anxiety to your problems
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“low-key dispassionate demeanor … that conveys a respectful curiosity” and concern.
Klonsky & Weinberg, In Nock (editor), 2009.
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Some things to say… A lot of the people I’ve met who do
this do it because it helps them feel better when they’re really upset. Is that true of you?
Sometimes people start feeling spacey and kind of zoned out and this brings them back to reality. Is that true of you?
I won’t tell you I understand what you’re feeling, but I want to.
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Good time to go through the limits of confidentiality.
Negotiate parental involvement.
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Care plan Roles: School counselors, other
school personnel, parents, physician, outside clinicians.
Communication among the parties. Patient may, of course, report NSSI
and therapist will ask routinely if no report comes.
Suicide assessment will be part of therapy.
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Big questions Is there specific treatment of self-
injury? Or does one do what one normally
does to try to – Ease the patient’s psychological pain– Help with cognitive distortions– Support problem-solving– Help with interpersonal skills
(interpreting others and healthier pro-social behavior.
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Big questions
How much should the therapy focus on/attend to the self-injury?
What stance does the therapist take toward the behavior?– Acknowledge– Discourage– Contractually “disallow”
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This doesn’t work:
Punitive approaches Threatening approaches (if you do
this again, I’m going to recommend X)
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Major therapeutic approaches
Cognitive-behavioral Dealing with interpersonal world. Replacement skills Body image work Identifying trigger events Helping find a way to understand what happens. Finding new ways to vent, express the psychic
pain. Educating others in their lives, helping people
manage their responses. Medication Family treatment
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PsychopharmSandman, Curt A.
“Psychopharmacologic Treatment of Nonsuicidal Self-Injury. “ In Nock (2009).
“…no agreed-on pharmacological treatment for NSSI…We have far to go before a clearly effective pharmacological treatment of NSSI is available.”
Binks (2006): “There were as many definitions of improvement as there were studies.”