PO426: Cutting to Cope: Intervening With New Strategies for Teen Girls

  • PMD: 4,6
  • Cost: Included in Registration
  • Skill Level: Intermediate
  • Poster Session 10: Psychological Services for Specific Groups of Students

Learner Objectives

This session will help participants…

  1. understand the unique characteristics of female-identifying adolescents who engage in self-harm;
  2. learn strategies for prevention and intervention for female-identifying adolescents who engage in self-harm; and
  3. understand ways to support educators who interact with students who engage in self-harm.

Description

Strategies to support teenage girls engaging in self-injury are discussed through the results of a literature review. Audience includes practicing school psychologists and educators in secondary schools.

Presenter(s)

Rebecca J. Mohr, University of Washington

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