Working with Children Who Engage in Non-Suicidal Self-Injurious Behavior (Essay Sample)

Ethical Considerations When Working with Children Who Engage in Non-Suicidal Self-Injurious Behavior
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Ethical Considerations When Working with Children Who Engage in Non-Suicidal Self-Injurious Behavior
Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is defined as the intentional, self-inflicted damage to the body's surface that is not socially sanctioned and has no suicidal intent. Accidental and indirect self-injurious behaviors, such as disordered eating or drug misuse, are not included in this description—suicidal conduct, as well as socially acceptable practices such as tattoos, piercing, and religious rites. Cutting, scratching, pounding or slamming, carving, and scraping are popular methods. Non-suicidal self-injury is more common in children within mid-adolescence. It is a serious issue for child and adolescent psychiatrists and psychotherapists, juvenile welfare workers, teachers, and other professionals who work with children as impacted youth families. Self-injury and non-suicidal are, of date, favored above self-mutilation (Favazza, 1998). Self-harm is a term used to describe harmful indirect attempts such as alcohol and drug usage, reckless driving, etc. It is most commonly used to describe self-injury by youngsters. Non-suicidal self-injury converts intensely painful emotions such as sadness, guilt, flashbacks, and depersonalization into physical agony. Self-punishment, gaining attention, inflicting guilt, and adjusting to friends with NSSI are other causes.