Empowering Strategies for Extreme Forms of Aggression and Self-Injury: Recovery-Oriented Cognitive Therapy

Extreme forms of aggressive behavior and non-suicidal self-injury pose considerable challenge and cause immense stress for providers, loved ones, and the individuals themselves. It can be quite difficult to understand where the behavior of aggression or self-injury is coming from or to know what to do. This webinar guides participants in how to understand these formidable challenges and how a recovery-oriented, empirically supported approach, recovery-oriented cognitive therapy (CT-R), can provide tools for turning understanding into action. The program includes an introduction to CT-R and several core interventions: aspiration enrichment, recovery imaging, predictable positive action, and guided discovery.

• Identify the five core principles of recovery-oriented cognitive therapy.
• Name at least two beliefs underlying engagement in aggression and/or self-injury.
• Describe the clinical rationale for enriching aspirations and developing recovery images for work with aggression and self-injury.

Ellen Inverso, PsyD