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Children and young people who self-harm - FC0101
This course is for foster carers, fostering team managers, supervising social workers and fostering support workers.
Aims
To increase awareness of the issues relating to self-harm to help support confidence in offering a more consistent, positive response to children and young people in their care
Objectives
At the end of the course participants will be able to:
- Demonstrate an awareness of self-harm being used as a coping strategy which young people have likely developed as a way of dealing with difficult feelings and situations.
- Demonstrate an awareness of the social, environmental, and psychological factors that will help explain the prevalence of self-harm amongst the young people they are supporting.
- Identify the barriers that might be preventing young people from wanting to disclose or access support for their self-harm and support confidence to offer a helpful response to a young person who is self-harming.
- Demonstrate an awareness that responses that focus purely on ‘preventing self-harm’ can sometimes be counter-productive in terms of reducing risk and in promoting a therapeutic relationship
- Increase confidence in managing disclosure/broaching the issue of self-harm with the young people they are supporting.
- Construct a definition of self-harm and place self-harm on a continuum of other self-damaging behaviours, including suicide.
Trainer
Terri Shaw from Harm-ed
Delivery Dates & Venue