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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

This allows for greater employee buy-in and communication, ultimately leading to improved organizational culture, increased retention rates, and more. You cannot do that without clear and honest communication. E — Demonstrate empathy, feeling with your team and understanding their stressors because you have felt that way before.

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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. After all, the ability to bounce back can sometimes be fostered best in a community.

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Anger Management Strategies for Children: How to Deescalate Your Angry Child

Psychological Health Care

Anger can be shown as a calculated response to unfair circumstances or as a sudden, impulsive reaction driven by the need for self-preservation or control. This empowers your child to develop self-regulation skills and problem-solving abilities over time. Why Does Your Child Get Angry?

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10 Tips to Help Your Child Navigate Bullying and Friendship Challenges

Prosper Health Collective

All bullying is hurtful and can cause long-lasting harm on a person’s emotional wellbeing, self-esteem and confidence. Seems upset during or after being online, or unexpectedly deleting social media accounts What to do Communication Talk openly and calmly. Bullying can happen face to face and online (Cyberbullying).

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Nurse Depression and Anxiety: Stopping the Mental Health Crisis

Relias

Fear of causing patient harm Nearly all healthcare professionals, regardless of rank, fear making a medical error. Anxiety and depression manifest differently depending on the individual, and many symptoms can be easily overlooked in nurses because they are constantly busy and have little time to self-reflect.

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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. In contrast, anger is an adaptive feeling that enhances communication in our important relationships. Anger is an expression of self, but not primitive self-protection.