mental health disorders
Nonsuicidal Self Injury (NSSI)
Treatment of Nonsuicidal Self Injury
Certain types of psychotherapy Treatment of any other disorders present Certain types of psychotherapy may help people who injure themselves. They include Cognitive-behavioral therapy Dialectical behavior therapy Emotion-regulation group therapy Cognitive-behavioral therapyhelps people identify distortions in thinking and understand how these distortions lead to problems in their lives. The premise is that how people feel and behave is determined by how they interpret experiences. Through the identification of core beliefs and assumptions, people learn to think in different ways about their experiences, reducing symptoms and resulting in improvement in behavior and feelings. Dialectical behavior therapyprovides weekly individual and group sessions for 1 year and a therapist who is available 24 hours a day by telephone. The therapist acts as a behavior coach. The aim is to help people find more appropriate ways of responding to stress—for example, to resist urges to behave self-destructively. Emotion-regulation group therapyinvolves 14 weeks of group therapy. It helps people become aware of, understand, and accept their emotions. This therapy helps people be willing to accept negative emotions as part of life and thus not to respond to such emotions so intensely and impulsively. No medications have been approved for the treatment of nonsuicidal self-injury. However, some antidepressants, newer antipsychotics, andnaltrexonehave been effective for some people. If people have other mental disorders (such as Depression 