Course | Understanding Self-Harm - Children and Young People

Course Information

This interactive course is designed to empower professionals and volunteers working with children and young people who self-harm. Through engaging activities, frameworks for intervention, training videos, discussions, and practical scenarios, participants will gain a deeper understanding of self-harm and learn effective strategies for providing support and intervention.

The session explores complexities in children and young people, and practical strategies to increase confidence in addressing self-harm.

Details

Duration: 3.5 hours
Delivery: Online and in-person
Group size: 6 to 20 learners
Qualification: Certificate of attendance

Key Features

Explore your attitude about self-harm in children and young people.
Recognise self-harm as a coping strategy for children and young people.
Identify the social, environmental and psychological factors which influence the prevalence of self-harm amongst children and young people.
Demonstrate an understanding of the functions that self-harm might be serving for the children and young people you are supporting.
Identify the signs that may indicate that a child or young person is self-harming.
Identify the barriers which might prevent a child or young person from disclosing/accessing support for their self-harm, and identify strategies that may help break down these barriers.
Demonstrate increased confidence in ability to broach the issue/manage disclosure and offer a helpful response to a child or young people who self-harms by using a framework of intervention in a simulated situation.
Access a range of services and apps that can be of help for those who self-harm.
Recognise the impact of working or living with those who self-harm and ways to build self-care strategies.

Ideal for

Professionals and volunteers working with children and young people, including safeguarding team workers, social workers, youth workers and youth group leaders, teachers and pastoral staff, young people social care workers, and primary care and mental health workers.