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Linking and Reconceptualizing Different Forms of Self-Harming Behavior | Samantha Clark | TEDxUNG

In this talk, Samantha Clark discusses her research in clinical psychology and outlines two hypotheses concerning the nature of self-destructiveness. She first suggests that differing forms of self-harm are all interrelated, and then proposes that these behaviors may serve as maladaptive coping mechanisms. By researching into the nature of self-destructiveness, she hopes to be able to alter perceptions of these disorders--for the individual, the clinician, and larger society. Samantha is a recent graduate from the psychology program at the University of North Georgia. She became involved in research during her sophomore year working as a lab assistant in a neuroscience animal study. After this, she shifted from neuroscience to clinical psychology where she began to head her own studies. Then, during her senior year, she applied for and received a state-funded grant through the Center of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities (CURCA) program to conduct her own original research study under the mentorship of Dr. Kelly Cate. Her project, which began as a simple study about the psychological factors involved in eating disorders, evolved quickly into an extensive set of hypotheses concerning the nature of self-destructiveness itself. Having spent her first two years of her undergraduate education as a biology major and having minored in Sociology, her research in psychology has been strongly influenced by other disciplines. Consequently, she approaches her work from the biopsychosocial perspective, a view in psychology which integrates environmental, genetic/biological, and individual factors. Her work is also influenced by humanistic and cognitive-behavioral psychology. All of these subtle influences culminate into an approach, which recognizes environmental and genetic factors as strong influences in an individual’s psychology, but sees cognitive-reshaping as a way to break down mediating psychological factors; these psychological factors, she proposes, are ultimately what allow many disorders—particularly those related to self-destruction—to fully develop and be maintained. In the future, she plans to attend a clinical psychology doctoral program with the hopes of becoming an associate professor and a researcher. She expresses determination to continue research in the area of eating disorders, self-harm, and substance abuse. Ultimately, she hopes to one day contribute research findings that may lead to alterations of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of Mental Disorders, an American Psychological Association (APA) manual used routinely by psychologists world-wide when making diagnoses. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx