Assessing, Triaging and Managing Youth who Self-Injure: A Workshop for Mental Health Clinicians
March 19, 2010 - Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre - Vancouver, BC
Self-injury is a serious clinical health problem that can be difficult to understand. In January, CYHRNet sponsored a successful workshop in Victoria, led by self-injury expert and co-editor of the book Self-Injury in Youth: The Essential Guide to Assessment and Intervention Dr. Mary Kay Nixon, on assessing, triaging and managing youth who self-injure. For this Vancouver workshop, Dr. Nixon was joined by her colleague Dr. Harjit Aulakh to help mental clinicians further understand the experience and motivation of youth who self-injure, introduce the latest research on self-injury in youth, and provide practical strategies for working with youth struggling with self-injury.
Assessing and Triaging Youth who Self-Injure
Dr. Mary Kay Nixon provides insight into how to assess and triage youth who self-injure. Total video for this portion of the workshop runs about 43 minutes long and is divided into five segments.
Click the play button to begin watching a playlist of all five segments. Mousing over the player enables you to navigate through the sections by using the grey arrows on the left and right sides of the screen or by selecting a segment from the thumbnails on the bottom of the screen. Watch the video directly in YouTube.
Presentation Slides
Click the image to the right to access a .pdf file of Dr. Mary Kay Nixon's presentation slides from the March 19, 2010 Assessing, Triaging and Managing Youth who Self-Injure workshop.
Treating Youth who Self-Injure
Dr. Harjit Aulakh introduces various methods of treatment for youth who self-injure and how they can be used. Total video for this portion of the workshop runs about 29 minutes long and is divided into four segments.
Click the play button to begin watching a playlist of all four segments. Mousing over the player enables you to navigate through the sections by using the grey arrows on the left and right sides of the screen or by selecting a segment from the thumbnails on the bottom of the screen. Watch the video directly in YouTube.
Presentation Slides
Click the image to the right to access a .pdf file of Dr. Harjit Aulakh's presentation slides from the March 19, 2010 Assessing, Triaging and Managing Youth who Self-Injure workshop.
Dr. Mary Kay Nixon
Dr. Mary Kay Nixon, MD, FRCPC, is a child and adolescent psychiatrist practicing in Victoria. She was previously Director of Psychiatry Research and Head of the Mood and Anxiety Clinic at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario in Ottawa. She is the founding editor of the Journal of the Canadian Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Research Fellow at the Centre for Youth & Society, University of Victoria; Affiliate Associate Professor in the Division of Medical Sciences, UVic; and Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia.
Dr. Harjit Aulakh
Dr. Harjit Aulakh, PhD, completed her doctorate in psychology from McGill and currently works as a clinician with the Aboriginal Child and Youth Community Mental Health Centre in Victoria, providing therapeutic services for aboriginal youth of all ages. She develops and provides group therapy for teens who self-injure with Dr. Nixon, and contributed to a chapter on psycho-social interventions for youth who self-injure in the book Self-Injury in Youth: The Essential Guide to Assessment and Intervention.
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