Preventing Self-Harm training online.

The Association for Psychological Therapies is a leading provider of training for professionals working in mental health and related areas and our CBT with Non-Suicidal Self-Injury: There Must Be A Better Way^® course is available to study online. APT's self-harm prevention training online, provides an opportunity to obtain APT-quality input at a time that is convenient to you and your colleagues, and minimises the need for 'cover' normally associated with training.

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The benefits of studying the course online:

One year access to the course.
Start anytime, and access the training whenever is best for you.
Equivalent to 18 hours CPD.
An APT Accredited course.
Exercises that help you assimilate the material and relate it to your own work.
Narration that adds observations and depth to the material.
Video.
3 years access to associated resources, which you can use on the course and download subsequently for use in your own practice (renewable after 3 years).
An exam to test your knowledge and give you Level 2 APT Accreditation in the subject. (You can resit the exam if you don’t pass first time.)
A downloadable certificate when you pass the exam, stating your level of accreditation and CPD hours.

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Price:

£225 plus VAT per person.

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About the course

Deliberate non-suicidal self-injury is the intentional cause of harm to one's own body. More often, however, it is thought of as the coping with intense emotional distress by inflicting injury to oneself. It is more prevalent amongst young people, though by no means confined to them.

Non-suicidal self-injury is not attempted suicide. People who self-harm have no intention of killing themselves, at that point in time. Rather the non-suicidal self-injury is usually a way of coping with some form of distress. In attempted suicide, by contrast, the person intends to kill themselves. However, although it is important to distinguish between non-suicidal self-injury and attempted suicide, people who self-harm are in fact 10 times more likely to eventually end their own lives than people who don't.

More than 24,000 teenagers are admitted to hospital in the UK annually after deliberately harming themselves; 1 in 10 teenagers self-harms. Rates of non-suicidal self-injury in the UK have increased over the last 10 years and are amongst the highest in Europe.

Sometimes, non-suicidal self-injury is triggered by events such as: bereavement, loss of employment, imprisonment, relationship problems, and other crises, yet at other times, none of those are present, and the non-suicidal self-injury seems to be purely a very effective means of coping with tension and stress.

This course sets out to give a clear and effective approach to working with non-suicidal self-injury by providing patients with something that works better for them than harming themselves.

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What do I receive as a result of attending this course?

You will be registered at APT as having completed the course and exam, and will receive a printable certificate to acknowledge your completion. Delegates will also receive APT's Level 2 Accreditation. As a bona fide APT event, this course automatically has accreditation from The Association for Psychological Therapies. This accreditation is given weight by the fact of over 150,000 professionals having attended APT training.

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As a bona fide APT event, this course automatically has accreditation from The Association for Psychological Therapies. This means (i) that it contains the right amount of relevant information for its duration, and (ii) the information is presented in an engaging way, and in a way that will make it likely to be used after the course. APT verifies the accreditation by publishing the delegates' average ratings of relevance and presentation-quality for all its accredited courses. The accreditation is given value by over 150,000 professionals having attended APT courses.

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Feedback Ratings.*

We continuously monitor the quality of our training by obtaining feedback on the two key scales of relevance and presentation from every course delegate. Below are the average ratings for the last ten runnings of the 'live' version of this course.

Average Presentation rating: 97%

Average Relevance rating: 97%

*These statistics were last updated in September 2018 and are taken from the 'live' version of this course.

Written Feedback.*

APT prides itself on the feedback we receive about our courses. Below are just some of the great comments the 'live' CBT with Non-Suicidal Self-Injury: There Must Be A Better Way^® course has received.

"Fantastic course … more courses like this are needed for everyone working in mental health."

"This has been the best course I have been on in 25 years of nursing. The tutor had a fantastic way of bringing the subject to life. I feel armed with skills to be able to work effectively with a service user on taking this forward. Self harm no longer sends me running to the hills."

*This feedback is taken from the 'live' version of this course.