International Journal of Psychology and Mental Health
Vol. 1 No. 1 (2025): February

Handling Community Cases of Self-injury (Barcode) in Early Adolescents Using Self-Talk Therapy

Luluk Setyowati (SMP Negeri 16 Surabaya, Indonesia)
Fadjarijah Nurulita (SMP Negeri 16 Surabaya, Indonesia)
Andreas Adi Haryanto (SMP Negeri 16 Surabaya, Indonesia)



Article Info

Publish Date
26 Feb 2025

Abstract

Self-injury is a non-suicidal self-harm disorder that seems to be largely maintained by negative reinforcement, for example that the behavior is reported to rapidly reduce negative emotions and unpleasant emotional arousal. The self-injury behavior is carried out with the aim of overcoming it with trauma-related symptoms such as anger and/or disgust directed at oneself, so that the individual feels positive feelings or feels better. The method used to handle these problems is to use self-talk therapy, which is a form of intrapersonal communication, meaning that communication is carried out by the individual to himself, either consciously or unconsciously. The subjects in this study consisted of students aged 12-15 years, consisting of 13-15 children. The implementation stage of self-talk therapy consists of four sessions, session I consists of pre-test, psychoeducation and the initial understanding stage. Session II is an in-depth session on self-talk, students are divided into two groups with lighter and heavier problems. Sessions III and IV are sessions on understanding how to do negative to positive self-talk and evaluation. As a result of this activity, the student's self-injury behavior or barcode is reduced or never done again. It can be concluded that the average teenager is self-injury because he does not understand the impact, with self-talk therapy students are more able to control themselves and begin to be able to distinguish negative thoughts and understand how to direct positive thoughts.

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Journal Info

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ijpmh

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Health Professions Medicine & Pharmacology Neuroscience Public Health Social Sciences

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International Journal of Psychology and Mental Health (IJPMH) is an interdisciplinary publication dedicated to original research and scholarly works in the field of psychology and mental health. The journal aims to facilitate and promote the dissemination of knowledge and innovative findings to a ...