An Introduction to Youth Self-Harm
Sat, 13 Jul
|St Mary Magdalene, London
This introductory day offers attendees the opportunity to explore their thoughts and feelings about self-harm & suicide, talk through strategies & therapeutic models for working with the issues & discuss ways of supporting our own self-care as practitioners whilst working with self harm & suicide
Time & Location
13 Jul 2019, 09:30 – 16:30
St Mary Magdalene, London, 10 Wiseton Rd, London SW17 7EE, UK
Guests
About The Event
A CPD Event from a creative-arts based organisation dedicated to promoting positive child mental health and emotional well-being.The Sunflower Network
This one day workshop is an opportunity for attendees to explore their thoughts and feelings about self-harm. It is an introductory day that will seek to both raise awareness and ask questions to deepen our knowledge of self-harm’s increasing role and function in children and young people’s worlds.
The focus of the day will be on self-injury, with some attention also being given to suicidal ideation and suicide attempts by children and young people. Whether you are a professional, a friend or a parent/carer of someone who self-harms, such presentations evoke understandable strong emotional responses within us all.
Jude Sellen-Cole has been using Transactional Analysis psychotherapy models and being mindful of bringing sensation work into awareness in her working relationships with both adults and youths who self-harm, as well as…