I just got back to Canada from attending the International Association for Youth Ministry's international conference in the UK. It was such a great experience, and I am very grateful as I was given the opportunity to present some of my work on providing spiritual care to sexual and gender minority youth (SGMY) who self-injure. Everyone who attended the session very welcoming and friendly and supportive of my work. I was also challenged to reflect upon SI as it relates to an i

Over the next few days, I will be posting about the three options for contemporary therapeutic models with regards to self-injury that I have come across in my research. Today, I will be focussing on an individualized therapeutic approach. Individualized Therapy. Although some researchers claim that no well accepted, empirically supported therapeutic models exist for treatment of NSSI, others argue that cognitive behavioural therapies (CBT) such as problem-solving therapy (PS