This course is recommended for staff working in health and social care who need to prevent and/or intervene in crisis situations and whose Training Needs Analysis has established that they require disengagement skills only (no holding).
This course is for Shropshire Council staff working in Adult Social Care and Housing Options teams only. It is tailored specifically for staff who do not provide direct care.
This course is recommended for staff working in health and social care who need to prevent and/or intervene in crisis
situations and whose Training Needs Analysis has established that they require disengagement and holding skills.
Learn the skills and knowledge needed to identify someone who may be thinking about suicide and competently intervene to help create suicide-safety as a first aid approach. Learn and practice suicide intervention skills that can be applied in any professional or personal setting.
Gain useful knowledge around the impact of suicide and how we can support someone who we may have concerns about using the ‘see, say, signpost’ skills in conversations.
Gain an understanding of motivational interviewing and how to use it in practice to provide “a collaborative, person-centred form of guiding to elicit and strengthen motivation to change” (Miller & Rollnick, 2009)