Description
Online Course Audience:
This course is aimed at residential care staff, specialist health and education staff working with children, youth leaders and practitioners.
Learning objectives
By the end of the course, you will be able to:
- Explain what self-harm is.
- Understand why children and young people might resort to self-harming and the problems associated with it.
- Identify some of the signs that could indicate a child or young person is self-harming.
- Identify different forms of self-harm.
- Identify groups that are vulnerable to self-harm.
- Describe/demonstrate how to talk to a child or young person who is self-harming using a sensitive and understanding approach.
- Identify appropriate support to a child or young person who is self-harming.
- List possible substitutions and recovery strategies that child or young person can try.
- Advise how you can raise the issue with a child or young person you suspect is self-harming.
- Emphasise the need to follow the children’s home Self-harm Policy regarding reporting and recording.
Entry requirements
There are no entry requirements
Course assessment and certification
The candidate must pass the final assessment, however if failed the course content can be revisited and the final assessment re-attempted. On successful completion of the final assessment a downloadable certificate is immediately available.