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MHT03 – Self Harm & Suicide Training

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This self-harm and suicide training offers evidence-based content to improve knowledge, safety planning and safeguarding support.

The training is tailored to your learning needs and the people that you support. We’ve worked with a wide and varied range of organisations and clients over the years including NHS trusts / CMHT / Crisis Teams, AMHPs / CAMHS, all areas of local government, social work and social care, residential care, social housing, sheltered housing and supported living providers, the police and emergency services, national charities, the education sector and private hospitals.

We are one of the UK’s leading providers of self-harm and suicide training. All training is delivered by psychiatry-trained facilitators.

We know the challenges that these sectors independently face and how to integrate advice and training solutions that fit the needs of all. We’ve led from the front for over 20 years and have supported many hundreds of clients in the public and private sector.

All training is delivered by highly qualified experts in the field of psychiatry and psychology. It offers a robust a unique approach to risk assessment, risk management and safety planning that empowers knowledge, intuition, communications and safeguarding supports.

Ligature and self-harm support training

We provide a wide range of ligature and self-harm training for care providers, healthcare and residential care settings, supported living providers and custody environments.

The ligature training can include policy development, risk assessments, safe environments, appropriate and skilled responses to ligature events and advanced safeguarding. This is an advanced area of training. Please contact us directly for further information.

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Key learning objectives covered within this unique training

  • Science, statistics, terminology and risk factors for self-harm and suicide
  • A clearer understanding of vulnerability, risk indicators and the processes of suicide risk assessments (being alert to, and identifying enhanced risk, improving safety planning, and advocating for at-risk service users.)
  • An improved understanding of non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) and its relationship with self-harm and suicide
  • Understanding major depression, mood disorder, anxiety, complex trauma and psychosis in relation to self-harm and suicide risk
  • Understanding suicide and self-harm risk in non-organic psychosis and schizophrenia
  • Conversational strategies, signposting, safety planning, advocacy to safeguard vulnerable people
  • Understanding attachment seeking / risk-taking behaviours associated with EUPD / Borderline Personality Disorder diagnosis – a clearer understanding of behaviour and risk
  • Understanding self-harm and suicide risk in adolescents / young people
  • The Mental Health Act, The role of The NHS and the AMHP (assessment, safeguarding and informal and formal inpatient care)
  • Improved intuition, risk awareness assessments, confidence, signposting support and conversations that influence safety.
  • There is no role play and staff dignity and sensitivity is respected at all times.

This training is delivered by psychiatry-trained experts

We specialise in psychiatric illness and abnormal psychology, personality disorder and stress-related illness training, capacity law and mental health risk. We offer a wide-ranging, multi-disciplinary knowledge and skills with high quality, integrated evidence-based training that you can trust

Frequently Asked Questions about Self Harm & Suicide Prevention Training

Can you define the language associated with Self Harm and Suicide

Self-harm commonly refers to self-injurious actions towards oneself as a way to mitigate, express or cope with emotional pain, stress, or overwhelming feelings. It is usually not about wanting to die, but about trying to manage distress. Self-harm is certainly part of concerning risk pattern and is often seen as a coping mechanism.

Suicidal behaviour involves the consideration or intent to end one’s life. Self-harm can increase the risk of suicide, so it should always be taken seriously.

Why is self-harm and suicide awareness training important?

Self-harm and suicidal distress affect people of all ages and backgrounds. Having the confidence to recognise warning signs and respond appropriately can make a real difference. Our training equips learners with practical, evidence-based skills to improve risk awareness, facilitate risk assessments and provide safeguarding to support people safely and compassionately.

Who is this training designed for?

This training is bespoke-designed and delivered carefully to meet the client group learning needs. We work extensively with NHS Trusts, Community Mental Health Teams, CAMHS, Secure Hospitals, The Police, National Charities, Adult Social Care, Education and school staff, and a range of independent organisations and advocacy services and anyone who wants to feel more confident supporting others

What makes this training different?

Our training is:

  • Delivered by psychiatry-trained facilitators that have a significant and detailed understanding of psychology, psychiatry, risk management, mental health law and a deep understanding typical organisational and safeguarding challenges that impact different service, in different ways.
  • It delivers evidence based, practical and skills-focused – not just theory
  • The training is sensitive, trauma-informed and non-graphic
  • Delivered by experienced professionals who can extend the training into a range of associated sciences to support learning and skills development
  • Aligned with safeguarding and best-practice guidance

 

What will I learn?

By the end of the training, learners will be able to:

  • Understand the complex psychology, psychiatry and risk clusters associated with self-harm and suicide risk.
  • Improved risk awareness, conversational strategies and risk stratification.
  • Understand the challenges associated with personality disorder psychiatry, attachment seeking. This can be expanded into supporting self-harm and ligature use
  • Use supportive, non-judgemental language, understand boundaries, confidentiality, and safeguarding
  • Know when and how to refer to further support to safeguard individuals vulnerable to self-harm and suicide risk.
  • We offer extended training to for care / supported living providers that manage individuals vulnerable to ligature related risk.
Is the training safe and supportive?

Yes. All content is carefully designed to be safe, respectful, and trauma-aware.

Will this training help me respond confidently to a real situation?

Absolutely. The training focuses on real-world scenarios and clear guidance on what to say, what not to say, and what steps to take next. You are not expected to diagnose or counsel — just to respond appropriately and responsibly.

Does the course cover safeguarding and legal responsibilities?

Yes. The training includes clear guidance on:

  • Human Rights Act, The Mental Health Act, The Mental Capacity Act & Best Interests Assessments and general safeguarding legislation
  • Safeguarding responsibilities and escalating concerns to statutory services
  • Safety planning, safeguarding and reporting procedures
  • Developing or working within organisational policies
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