Self-harm online course

Please note – there is also a 1-day attended workshop version of this course which includes practical exercises and counts towards Part 1 of the Human Givens Diploma. This online course has additional multiple choice questions to help deepen your learning. If you take this online course, you can attend the in-person workshop at 50% off.

Helpful that real-life experiences were used as examples, trainer had excellent work-based knowledge…

SUICIDE PREVENTION CO-ORDINATOR

Self harm and self-injury behaviours are sadly now very common, particularly among young people. It’s a very emotive and sensitive subject for everyone involved; many find self harming stressful to work with and hard to treat. And self-harm doesn’t just impact the individual themselves, it can badly affect the people around them too. But there is hope…

Why take this course

Emily Gajewski, psychotherapist and self-harm expert, is passionate about sharing her unique knowledge, skills and new insights with you. Her important training day demystifies the self-harming cycle, clarifies its causes and shows why we should not give up on anyone, even in the most apparently hopeless situations.

It is Jam-packed with essential information, proven techniques and helpful tips – you will hear from people who have been able to completely stop self-harming (or dramatically reduce it) and are now living fulfilled lives as a result of this approach.

This online self-harm course will provide you with the clarity you have been looking for – and enable you to create a cohesive and effective treatment strategy.

Give those who are struggling with self harm the best chance of reducing and eventually stopping self-harming behaviours, improve their mental health and their outlook of life.

I work with self-harming teenagers a lot and learned valuable new tools on this online course...

SARA SIMON

What will you learn

• A greater understanding of self-injury and why it occurs
• What to do when someone discloses their self-harming behaviour to you
• The essential Dos and Don’ts for teams and individuals working with people who self-harm
• The latest guidelines around working with self-harm, including positive risk management and harm minimisation
• The importance of differentiating between self-harming and a suicide attempt – and how to treat them both
• The self-harm continuum – what tips us into self-harming behaviours
• What to do if someone is threatening to self-harm
• The common myths and stereotypes surrounding self-injury
• Powerful techniques that will transform your effectiveness and a ‘tried-and-tested’ framework for improving wellbeing, drawn from profound knowledge about what people need to avoid mental and emotional distress and increase wellbeing
• How chemical changes in the brain from self-harming behaviours can bring temporary relief from difficult emotions
• Why there is often an addictive element to self-injury (insights from neuroscience)
• How to approach the subject of self-injury with someone
• A cohesive and effective treatment strategy for treating self-injury and breaking the destructive cycle of behaviour
• Knowledge of the important skills needed for working with people who self-harm (these are practised on our attended workshop)
• Enlightening filmed interviews and case histories which show how it is possible to help people, even in a very desperate situation, to live fulfilling lives again
• Insights from a highly experienced tutor who has extensive hands-on experience of helping people successfully overcome self-harming
• Ways to help people build resilience against future stressful circumstances
• Tips on finding the most helpful coping strategies
• How to help people create an alternative ‘safe place’ for themselves
• Information that will reduce your own anxiety when working in this area
• How to create an effective self-management plan and increase the individual’s engagement with it
• Important new information that will help you prevent self-harm
• New confidence when making interventions with people who once seemed unreachable

Good to know

The online Tackling Addiction course also gives you a lot of information relevant to self-harm and the further skills you will learn on the Stopping Addictions: effective treatment and recovery 1-day workshop can also be useful for working with people who self-harm.

Guided imagery and visualisation are key skills to have for implementing the strategies covered on this course.

Invaluable - it was like lifting a veil on the reasons for self-harm

TEACHER