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| Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (Indigenous Youth) |
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Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 8:55 am to Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 4:30 pm ACST
Darwin, Northern Territory |
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Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 8:55 am to Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 4:30 pm
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Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 8:55 AM ACST |
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Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 4:30 PM ACST |
Location & Address
Central Venue TBA (Dependant on numbers)
Darwin, Northern Territory
Australia-0800 |
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The issue of self-harm within the Indigenous community is complex. Self-harm (sometimes referred to as self-injury) is understood to involve a person deliberately causing physical pain as a means of managing difficult or painful emotions, or as a way of communicating personal distress to others. Individual motives for self-harming behaviour are diverse and can be related a short or long term response to emotional difficulty, low self-esteem, anger, isolation, transgenerational trauma, grief or traumatic life experiences including childhood emotional, physical or sexual abuse. Self-harming behaviours typically commence in adolescence, and acts of self-harm or attempted suicide reflect the degree of emotional distress by an individual that requires skilled assessment and support.
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy offers a skills based, non-judgemental approach to the management of Indigenous youth who are self harming. Findings and the application of this model from the work of the Jerrboongun Unity Foundation’s homelessness and development programs will be explored throughout this workshop.
Topics to be covered
• Commitment Strategies, working with Indigenous Youth to commit to therapy and support
• Biosocial theory of why Indigenous adolescents use self harming behaviours
• Using problem solving, exposure, skills training and cognitive modification to the problem of self-harming
• Using stylistic strategies to reframe suicidal and other dysfunctional behaviours
• Teaching your clients the skills of :
o Emotion Regulation – how to deal with reactive emotional responses, anger expression, depression, anxiety and irritability
o Interpersonal effectiveness – how to ask for what you need and say no to unwanted requests; maintaining and increasing stable, positive relationships
o Distress tolerance – how to survive the crisis and to accept that pain and distress are a part of life; learn ways to tolerate distress
o Mindfulness skills – focusing on one thing in the moment and being effective
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Centre for Evidence Based Mental Health |
The Centre for Evidence Based Mental Health is a Centre of Excellence formed with the support of partners including Jerrboongun Indigenous Youth Foundation as well as Universities and TAFE Colleges in Australia. The centre is committed to disseminating evidence-based research and particularly Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT).
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) is a systematic cognitive-behavioural treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder, especially for individuals with chronic patterns of suicidal or other severe dysfunctional behaviours. Since its inception, DBT has been adapted as a treatment for other complex, difficult-to-treat disorders including co-occurring conditions. Balancing acceptance and change strategies, DBT calls on the patient and the therapist to accept reality while maintaining a strong and conscious commitment to change.
Research has shown DBT to effectively reduce suicidal behaviour, dropout from treatment, psychiatric hospitalisation, anger, and interpersonal difficulties. DBT also has been adapted to treating substance-abusing individuals with BPD and shown to be effective for this population. Research in Australia is starting to emerge with significant findings identified through the Jerrboongun Indigenous Youth Foundation's homeless program in Melbourne, Victoria. The Centre for Evidence Based Mental Health is working closely with Jerrboongun Indigenous Youth Foundation to report these exciting findings and those from other programs of the foundation. |
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