Aims to: Gain awareness of the current prevalence of self harm, the contributing factors and how we may work towards supporting someone who self harms
Learning objectives:
- Prevalence of self-harm
- What can lead to self-harm
- Functions of self-harm behaviours
- Understand the importance of language use when dealing with self-harm
- Relationship between self-harm and suicide
- Alternative strategies to offer in relation to self-harm
- The positives and negatives in different responses to self-harm disclosures
- Improve confidence in supporting those who self-harm
Facilitator: Satveer Nijjar – Attention Seekers?
Audience: Staff and volunteers who may be supporting children and young people/adults around Self Harm.
This course may contain sensitive content within the context of the training subject, please be aware of this content with respect to your own well-being and seek support should you need to.