MHT03 – Self Harm & Suicide Training

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.

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