Ligatures To Self Harm, Full Day Course

Course overview

This course is designed for anyone wanting to improve their skills and reach their potential as a practitioner. The course is fully interactive and prompts you to assess your own approach to supporting young people who are in care or education and other settings who may be at risk of or have experience of self harm and suicidality. The course covers key topics such as why young people self harm or try to end their life, the course provides practitioners with the knowledge and skills to support people at risk, gain understanding about the interventions used and encourage safe practice as a method of harm reduction and provides facts regarding the topics. The course also includes a downloadable PDF workbook that you can fill in as you complete the training, so that you can develop your skills as a leader or manager and get the most out of the course content.

Aims and objectives

• Discuss the practice of self-harm including the use of ligatures
• Provide support for people around the issue of self-harm and suicidality
• Gain understanding of the practice and the need for safer practice and harm reduction
• Provide facts and statistics around the topic