What is the Understanding Self Injury Workshop?


Understanding Self Injury is a half-day education and awareness workshop, which is informal in style, with an emphasis on experiential learning and participation. The course can be tailored to meet the needs of individual groups.


Who is it for?

Anyone involved in supporting someone who self injures: including health professionals, support workers, housing staff, teachers, youth workers and volunteers.


What are the training goals?

The session combines various teaching methods including discussion, an experiential exercise, small group and pair work and whole group discussion. Each participant receives a resource pack ith further learning materials and information about sources of support. The workshop is facilitated to encourage a safe and effective learning environment.


Areas addressed in the workshop include:

self-injury attitudes
attitudes and preconceptions toward self-injury.
self-injury meaning
the dynamics, meaning and functions of self-injury.
self injury causes and triggers
causes and triggers.
cycles of self harm
cycles of harm.
self harm responses
helpful and unhelpful responses to people who self-injure.
self harm coping
alternative coping strategies.
clinical self injury
organisational and clinical responses to self injury.


How do I attend an Understanding Self Injury Workshop?


To book a place on a course, please contact us.



Understanding Self Injury Booking Forms


Self Injury: Individuals (MSWord)

Self Injury: Group (MSWord)


Return completed forms to:

or

Grassroots Training, Room 10 Valley Social Centre, Whitehawk Way, Brighton BN2 5HE

Upcoming Courses
Self Injury
03 November 2010
Brighton

 

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