Deliberate Self Harm

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Understanding Recovery Mental Capacity Act Managing Deliberate Self Harm Service-users Earned Depression Anxiety management Anger management Psychosis Borderline Personality Disorder Therapeutic risk-taking Stress & Vulnerability Restraint for routine tasks Understanding the duty of care and the right to liberty in residential care settings part 1 Understanding the duty of care and the right to liberty in residential care settings part 2 Understanding the duty of care and the right to liberty in residential care settings part 3 Understanding the duty of care and the right to liberty in residential care settings part 4 Competent care or 'too posh to wash'?

List of training courses The secrets of non verbal communication Mental Capacity Act 2005 training Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) training Risk appreciation in health and social care Responding to violence and aggression Responding to challenging behaviour Protection of Vulnerable Adults (POVA/SOVA) Adult Support in Scotland (a new legal framework) Introduction to Person Centred Planning Maintaining professional boundaries Getting people to talk Goal setting and problem-solving Working with withdrawn people Residential care training offer

Introduction to mental health and disorder Personality Disorder Relapse prevention in mental disorder Deliberate Self Harm Introduction to substance misuse in social care Working with withdrawn service-users Introduction to psychosis (including schizophrenia) Understanding anxiety Understanding obsessions, compulsions and phobias Understanding depression The experience and assessment of voice-hearing Working with delusions

Effective communication for managers Effective time management Helping staff to understand the duty of care

Deliberate self-harm can be confusing and bewildering for both staff and service-users. Ideas about ‘manipulation’ or a ‘cry for help’ do little or nothing to help prevent future self-harm. This course explores some alternative notions and examines ways that support workers can make a difference in a genuinely difficult situation.

There is a great deal that support staff in can do to assist people who harm themselves. The trick is to be able to see past the behaviour and to understand the person who cuts themselves, takes overdoses or otherwise injures themselves.

In the past this sort of behaviour has been written off as attention-seeking or an attempt to manipulate workers and yet most self-harm happens in secret and never comes to the attention of the staff.

Something else is going on and the tired old notion that it is merely ‘behavioural’ is both meaningless and irrelevant in a modern context of deliberate self-harm. The course includes:

Definitions of deliberate self-harm
A cry for help?
Is it all just attention-seeking?
Pain, the brain and self-soothing behaviours
The emotional purpose of deliberate self harm
Helping people to 'get past' deliberate self-harm
Managing the risks
Emotional support for workers
Dos and Don'ts

No previous knowledge or experience is necessary for the basic course.

More advanced training is also available for more experienced workers.

Both versions can be tailored to your particular requirements and delivered at the venue of your choice.

Contact AMJ on 07872 102626 for further information or Email Stuart direct on stuartsorensen@msn.com

News

Making things simple

29-01-2010

Many care providers are uncertain about the new Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards and the implications for their service. In particular they're unsure how to stay legal.

Residential care training offer

05-01-2010

This offer will be available until March 31st 2010

The last few years have brought sweeping changes to the way that care providers are regulated and new increased expectations have changed the duty of care for everyone involved in the care industry. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the residential care sector where increased demands and a brand new legal framework seems to create more and more ways for staff to get it wrong.

Philip Laing sentenced today

26-11-2009

A little while ago we commented on the case of Philip Laing, the Sheffield student who urinated on a war memorial after a session of heavy drinking.

Should Philip Laing go to prison?

05-11-2009

Philip Laing is 19 years old. Like many 19 year old students he sometimes drinks too much – a lot too much. Like many drunken teenagers he sometimes acts inappropriately when he’s ‘in his cups’. One night last October, following a night of drinking with his fellow sfgudents a very drunk Mr. Laing urinated on a war memorial in Sheffield's city centre.