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MHT06 - Self Harm Awareness:

This full-day workshop helps delegates to make sense of self harm and self injurious behaviour. It is delivered by a clinical / health psychologist and is dedicated to staff that interact with individuals that are at risk.

Self harm can be a symptom or component of a number of different psychiatric disorders. Self harm can also be a maladaptive coping mechanism which functions to reduce stress.

There is no single reason why individuals self harm. Delegates will address the issues associated and learn to put self harm into a context and manage the risk factors where appropriate.

Delegates will also develop a clearer understanding of attachment disorders, childhood neglect and abuse pathology and their relationship with self harm and emotional disorders.

Learning objectives:

To recognise what constitutes self-harm and better-understand the extent and range of self-harm and self injurious behaviours;
To better-understand the functions and reasons of self harm / self injurious behaviours;
To better-understand the aetiology of self harm, particularly its relationship with childhood attachment problems, neglect and abuse. It is important to stress that not all self harm is the manifestation of childhood trauma;
To develop a set of skills that support clients / patients, that helps to minimise harm and manage crisis more effectively;
To understand the relationship between self harm and suicide and to understand the risk factors associated with suicidality;
To understand symptoms of personality disorder and the associated challenges;
Understand the responsibilities of the health service – particularly the NICE guidelines;

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'This training was fantastic, through, in depth and informative'

'This has definitely helped me in terms of being able to more accurately recognise when students exhibit signs of mental illness and which illness'

'Excellent + above my expectations, extremely informative'

'Simon was an excellent trainer, he explained the aims and objectives of the course. He was engaging and the use of both visual aids and written literature made the learning experience an enjoyable one'

'Very interested, motivated to learn more'

'Very good, excellent'

(I have) 'Greater insight to mental illness such as symptoms and associated problems'

'Raised awareness of diagnostic criteria used in mental health'

'Very good, explained very well, very clear, easy to understand'

'Highlighted a greater understanding on the subject, highlighted how to proceed with an individual with mental health issues and who to contact'

'Will help understand and pick up on traits in work environment. Understand symptoms better'

'I think the training was excellent and informative. The objectives were explained very well. The delivery was very good'

'I work with students who have a variety of mental health disorders. This training has greatly improved my understanding'