STOPPING SELF HARM ... AND REPLACING IT WITH SOMETHING BETTER

Self harm training from one of Canada's leading providers of intensive short courses.

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A 3-day course for 6-16 people.
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Background and Rationale:

Self-harm is shockingly common and an intensely distressing behaviour for those who do it and for those around them – including professionals. This course addresses it directly and effectively.

Teaching methods on this course are: lecture, group discussion, small-group exercises and presentations, case-presentations and practice.

Who should attend ... any mental health professionals who have a caseload of whom 5% or more may self-harm.

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In three days you will cover a great deal:

•  Engaging with the person: forming a relationship whereby the person will take notice of
   what you say.

•  Analyzing why the person self harms. Although some triggers are more common than
   others, each person has their individual profile and it is essential to uncover it.

•  Putting yourself into a uniquely influential position by validating the person’s emotional
   reactions and their behavior without appearing to recommend self harm.

•  Motivating the person to change: having the person reflect on their self harm, identify why
   they might wish to stop it and become optimistic about the prospects for stopping (and
   doing something more constructive).

•  Finding something better. Importantly, many people report that self-harm works extremely
   well for them and nothing else does. We look at solving this conundrum.

•  The best laid plans are sometimes no more than that: how to have the person act on the
   plans you have jointly made.

•  Dealing with frustration: coping with relapse in people who are doing well; responding to
   people who say one thing and do another.

•  Long term strategy. How to get the person to look forward, to have goals and strive to
   achieve them. How not just to ‘not self harm’ but leave it right behind them.

•  Methods of working. Gaining support for oneself and providing support 24/7 for the person
   concerned.

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What the course will do for you:

•  You will learn ‘the fact and figures’ relating to self-harm.

•  How to develop a relationship where the person will take real notice of what you say.

•  How to help the person infer their own learning points – and act on them.

•  Develop an understanding of why some people self-harm in spite of the distress it causes
   – and the reason is almost never ‘attention-seeking’.

•  Learn a clear sequence of steps that are necessary and sufficient in helping and treating
   people who self harm.

•  Learn how to help the person focus on positive future goals in place of self-harm.

•  How to provide support for the person when you are not available, and support for
   yourself when you need it.

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Download printable Microsoft Word information Sheet

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A 3-day course for 6-16 people.
We bring the training to you for an all-inclusive fee of $7,795 plus GST.



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