Healthcare & Related Professions

Suicide - Let's Talk (CS10)


Description
An exploration in suicide awareness. The programme is organised around the question “should we talk about suicide?” and offers a space to safely explore some of the more challenging issues relating to suicide. The programme encourages everyone to find a part they can play in preventing suicide. Its goal is to help make direct, open and honest talk about suicide easier.

Reaching Out

This programme aims to raise the awareness that suicide is preventable. Improve education about suicide and decrease stigma associated with suicide. Topics include risk factors for suicide, warning signs, how to respond to a suicidal person and where to go for help. The development of skills around these issues is not within the remit of this programme. Instead this programme should be seen as the first step in developing knowledge to respond to someone in crisis.

Understanding Self Harm Awareness Training Programme

The workshop provides opportunities to improved knowledge, awareness and understanding of self-harming behaviour.. Participants consider how personal attitudes and experiences might affect their helping role with a person who self-harms. It aims to clarify what self-harm is, what leads people to engage in the behaviour and considers its relationship with suicide. The causes, reasons behind the behaviour, and the functions are discussed. Positive approaches to engaging with and caring for someone who self-harms are presented.
Content
  • Suicide -Let's Talk
Completion rules
  • All units must be completed
  • Leads to a certificate with a duration: Forever