Adolescent Nonsuicidal Self-Injury: Minimizing Client and Counselor Risk and Enhancing Client Care

In this article, the authors present risk management considerations of which mental health counselors should be aware when counseling adolescents who engage in nonsuicidal self-injury. They address considerations related to self-injury and suicide, assessment and evaluation, countertransference, social contagion, and body privacy and make recommendations to minimize client and counselor risk while enhancing client care. Rachel M. Hoffman is affiliated with Meridian Community Care.