When the Body Is the Target: Self-Harm, Pain, and Traumatic Attachments
Total CE Credit Hours: 20 Course Info URL: https://www.ce-credit.com/courses/101952
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In this comprehensive and insightful work, Dr. Sharon K. Farber provides an invaluable resource for the mental health professional who is struggling to understand self-harm and its origins. Using attachment theory to explain how addictive connections to pain and suffering develop, she discussed various kinds and functions of self-harm behavior.
From eating disorders to body modifications such as tattooing, Dr. Farber explores the language of self-harm, and the translation of that language and its psychic functions in the therapeutic setting. She tells us, “When the body weeps tears of blood, we need to wonder what terrible sorrows cannot be spoken.”
This course is based on the book, When the Body Is the Target: Self-Harm, Pain, and Traumatic Attachments created by Leah Harp, Ph.D. and Sharon Klayman Farber, Ph.D.
Journal/Publisher:
Jason Aronson. Rowman&Littlefield Publishers, INC.
Publication Date:
2000
Course Material Authors
Course Material Authors authored the material only, and were not involved in creating this CE course. They are identified here for your own evaluation of the relevancy of the material this course is based on.
Leah Harp, Ph.D.
Leah Harp created this online course. She is a graduate of ICSW.
Sharon Klayman Farber, Ph.D.
Dr. Farber is a Board Certified Diplomate in Clinical Social Work. She maintains a private practice in psychotherapy with children, adolescents, and adults in Hastings-on-Hudson, NY. She can help with problems around moods, anxiety, relationships, divorce, concerns about school or work. She is the founder of Westchester Eating Disorders Consultation Services. Other special interests are self-injury and other mind-body problems, dissociation, ADHD, cult involvement, and creativity.
This course is recommended for health care professionals, especially psychologists, counselors, and social workers who seek knowledge about how attachment theory can be used to explain how addictive connections to pain and suffering develop. It is appropriate for an intermediate level of participants' knowledge.
Course Objectives:
After taking this course, you should be able to:
The reader will be able to articulate the fundamentals of self-harm using attachment theory
The reader will learn to translate the symbolic language of self-harm in diagnostic formulations.
The reader will be able to perform assessments on patients who self-harm using the diagnostic formulation based on the richer understanding of self-harm behavior.
The reader will learn ways of providing services to patients who self-harm based on a knowledge of attachment theory to utilize, not fall victim to, the particular challenging countertransference this type of work is known for.
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