Self-harm: understanding and responding

🏷️ From £175
🎧 Boarding staff, Head of Boarding, Deputy Head, Mental health leads working with senior boarders
📍 Online

Course outline

This is a course for all staff working in the education setting to help improve understanding and responses to self-harm presentations. A topic which is often misunderstood, highly stigmatised and hidden is delivered in a relatable manner.

Training topics will include:

• Better understanding self-harm (definition / triggers / functions / statistics)
• Relationship between self-harm and suicide
• Signs and indicators of self-harm
• Broaching suspected self-harm
• Best practice response to disclosures (alternative strategies / language use / general response)

Learning outcomes:

• Understand what self-harm behaviours are and what can lead to them
• Understand the importance of asking about suicidal thoughts when presented with self-harm
• Have improved confidence in broaching and responding to disclosures, appreciating the importance of appropriate language use

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