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What is non-suicidal self-harm?

Beautiful Voyager

Non-suicidal self-harm means inflicting damage to your own body without the intention of suicide (and not consistent with cultural norms). The most common methods of non-suicidal self-harm are cutting (70%) or scratching, deliberately hitting the body on a hard surface, punching, hitting or slapping one’s self, and biting or burning.

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How Can You Support Your Staff During and After a Crisis?

Relias

E — Demonstrate empathy, feeling with your team and understanding their stressors because you have felt that way before. C — Show compassion, which is like empathy but different because it involves a genuine desire to help your team (think empathy plus action). Reflect on your company mission and vision statements.

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Building Organizational Resilience for Behavioral Health Providers

Relias

Just as individual practices like self-care can ground you through hardship, building organizational resilience can help your clinicians and staff weather hard times. This may be because they are motivated by empathy to pursue work in the field. In other words, even in turbulent times, resilience can be fostered.

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What is Self Compassion?

Prosper Health Collective

Compassion is the ability to show empathy , love, and concern to people who are in difficulty, and self-compassion is simply the ability to direct these same emotions within. Self-compassion involves acting the same way towards yourself when you are having a difficult time, fail, or notice something you don’t like about yourself.

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5 Reasons Children Bully and How Parents Can Help

KVC

We see the impact of that as bullies and those they bully are twice as likely to self-harm and experience suicidal behavior. A bully is someone that deliberately acts out verbally or physically in an aggressive manner towards others with the intent to cause harm, fear, or distress. Words can hurt. What Defines a Bully?

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Reliving Rage

American Board of Clinical Social Work

It is a primitive, self-protective survival mechanism–an instantaneous reaction to counteract helplessness. Anger is an expression of self, but not primitive self-protection. It is a demonstration of self-protection–almost never a wish to harm the partner. Rage is the amygdala-driven fight response to threat.

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Clearing Emotional Clutter to Lower Stress and Live a Healthy Life

R.E.A.L. Social Workers

We do not consider the thoughts harmful, although they increase stress. Emotional clutter can cause insensitivity, making it difficult to experience compassion and demonstrate empathy. When a person lacks empathy, they have few meaningful connections. We dwell on them often. Some may view them as necessary.

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