This training day is currently available 'in-house' delivered at your site, and can be tailored to meet the needs of your organisation.
Course aims
- To develop participants’ knowledge and understanding of self-injury
- To identify some of the important issues arising in work with young people who self-injure and to consider ways of dealing with these issues
- To explore the needs of young people who self-injure
- To reflect on the practice of course members in working with young people who self-injure
Course programme
The day will consist of four sessions, each involving participative exercises and teaching input from the trainer, as follows:
| 10.00 – 11.15 | Session 1 Introduction: What is self-injury? What issues does it raise for us as workers? |
11.15 – 11.30
| Coffee |
11.30 – 12.45
| Session 2 Why do young people self-injure? |
12.45 – 1.30
| Lunch |
1.30 – 3.00
| Session 3 What are the needs of young people who self-injure? How to respond helpfully? |
3.00 – 3.15
| Tea |
3.15 – 4.30
| Session 4 Reflecting on our own practice/needs |
Session 1 What is self-injury? What issues does it raise for us as workers?
Aims of this session
- To explore and share group members’ experience of self-injury
- To establish what self-injury is, and to set it in the context of a range of self-harm
- To enable group to identify some of the difficult issues which self-injury may raise for them and which need to be addressed during the day/subsequent meetings
Session 2 Why do young people self-injure?
Aims of this session
- To familiarise group with the sorts of life experiences which may underlie self-injury
- To identify the sorts of feelings, ideas, problems which these experiences may set up and which may be related to self-injury
- To explore and develop an understanding of the possible functions of self-injury
Session 3 What are the needs of young people who self-injure? How to respond helpfully?
Aims of this session
- To explore the possible needs of young people who self-injure and may seek help
- To identify possible helpful responses
- To look critically at various possible professional attitudes to self-injury
- To draw conclusions about how workers might best address people’s needs
Session 4 Reflecting on our own practice/needs
Aims of this session
- To enable group members to review their own practice and their agency’s practice in working with young people who self-injure
- To identify strengths and weaknesses in their own practice
- To consider changes that they would like to make; identify skills, resources etc needed to facilitate change
- To devise action plans (option)
- To look at own support (option)
To find out more
If you would like more information about our training, or to discuss your training needs, please contact Sarah Whitfield on:
Telephone: 0117 927 9600
Email: sarah.bcsw@btconnect.com
