As we’ve seen, helping youth who engage in self-harming behaviours is overwhelming and hard! This second webinar on the subject delves a little deeper into information about self-harm that will help you understand your child’s behaviour. You’ll learn more about this problem behaviour and how it develops from a DBT perspective; how to validate your teen; and we’ll look at some behavioural principles to help you address the self-harm in a consistent and nonjudgmental way.

Sheri Van Dijk is a Social Worker, who has been working with clients with severe mental health problems since 2000. With extensive experience in a hospital as well as community setting, Sheri now sees clients in private practice, and provides consultation and training internationally to other clinicians. Sheri has had extensive training in dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) and mindfulness and has been providing DBT-informed therapy to individuals and groups since 2004. Sheri is the author of several books that focus on helping readers learn DBT skills and apply them to a variety of mental health problems; and in 2013, she published DBT Made Simple, with the aim of making the therapy more accessible to both clients and clinicians. Sheri’s latest book, The DBT Skills Workbook for Teen Self-Harm was released in March, 2021.