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What Is Nonsuicidal Self-Injury?

1. Anorexia, or purposeful starvation, is a form of self-injury that can accompany other forms or act as a gateway to further self-abuse.

2. The methods of self-injury that are thought to be engaged in by 70 - 90% of persons who self-injure are all of the following, except:

3. Body areas that are rarely harmed and are particularly alarming are which of the following?

Who Self-Injures?

4. The strategies preferred by males can more easily be explained away as outward-focused aggressing which may mask self-injurious intent and support the common misperceptions that self-injury primarily affects females.

5. Which of the following demographic variables is significantly linked to NSSI?

6. All individuals who engage in NSSI meet criteria for a mental disorder.

7. Clients who have which of the following disorders are at an increased risk for NSSI?

Self-Injury In The Prison Population

8. All of the following are important and independent predictors of self-injury in jail, except for:

Where Do Those That Self-Injure Get Their Information?

9. Which of the following information sources are young people most comfortable obtaining information from?

How Is Self-Injury Linked To Suicide?

10. Suicide and suicide attempts represent a small share of all acts of self-injury.

11. Individuals who have ceased practicing self-injury are no longer at a heightened risk for suicidality later in life compared to those that never self-injured.

What Are The Reasons For Self-Injury?

12. There is considerable evidence that most people self-injure as a behavior for seeking attention.

13. As varied and different as people living with self-injury are, there is always one constant factor in their lives: having a history of some form of trauma in their pasts, often in their childhoods.

14. From a functional perspective, tension relief and/or a decrease in feelings of anger are examples of which reinforcement process?

15. Self-criticism has been shown to moderate the association between parental criticism and self-injury, such that the association between parental criticism and self-injury is especially strong among those with a self-critical cognitive style.

16. Which of the following individual variables is associated with self-injury?

Assessment And Treatment For Self-Injury

17. Self-injury can be very contagious.

18. The health care professional should avoid displaying extreme reactions such as shock, pity, or criticism to the client’s self-injury, and instead show effusive expressions of support.

19. The advantages of a client using diary cards include all of the following, except:

20. Clinicians working with self-injurers need to monitor in an ongoing way whether their self-injuring clients are also experiencing suicidal ideation, planning, and behavior.  In such cases, the priority is always to respond to the suicidal crisis first.

21. One study found that clients ranked all of the following as the most helpful strategies in treatment, except:

22. Interventions that seek to eliminate self-injury at all costs may actually increase the risk of successful suicide by removing an effective coping strategy that acts as an alternative to ending one’s life.

23. In general, psychotherapies appear to be most effective in treating self-injury when they emphasize all of the following, except: