PSYC 2740 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Experiential Avoidance, Stressor, Motivational Interviewing

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2740
• Professor: Susanna Lewis

Document Summary

Defining self-injury: non-suicidal self (nssi, deliberate (immediate) destruction of body tissue in the absence of suicidal intent and for reasons that are not culturally/socially acceptable. How do people self-injure: nssi methods, cutting (most common overall, scratching, carving, scraping, hitting, bruising, burning. How common is nssi: community rates, 40-65% young adult rates, 11-35% Nssi and emotionality: negative emotionality, currently self-injure > previously self-injured > never self-injured, those who self-injure may have more difficulty tolerating negative emotions and want to escape these experience sooner, come on very rapidly and intensively. Nssi and experiential avoidance: experiential avoidance -> attempts to avoid or escape from unwanted internal experience (e. g. , emotions, thoughts) or their triggers, negative life event, or getting a poor grade on a paper. Experiential avoidance model: stressor, heightened emotional response, high negative emotionality and emotion dysregulation, experiential avoidance, nssi, all of this leave temporary relief (reinforces nss) Why do people self injure: they feel such immense emotional pain.