Working Positively with Risk and Safety
Skills for frontline staff working with those who pose a risk to self and others.
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This course will support frontline staff to develop skills in working with those who pose a risk to themselves and/or others. Here you will learn how to understand, recognise, assess and work with different types of risk (including violence and suicidality); as well learning about how to work with deliberate self-harm and supporting the adoption of alternative self-soothing and emotion regulation strategies.
Length: Four modules, duration: 30 - 45 mins of study per module.
Your Instructor
Passionately working across organisational boundaries to develop new approaches to address health inequalities, Dr Williamson has a national reputation as leader in the development and delivery of services to address the needs of complex and multiply disadvantaged populations.
Emma is also the CEO of aneemo Ltd staff training and development company, works in private practice, teaches on the Clinical Psychology Doctorate at the Kings College London’s Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience and is a published author; regularly talking at conferences, in national media, TV documentaries & news programmes.
Course Curriculum
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StartSelf-harm (4:27)
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StartWhat is the function of self-harm? (4:51)
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StartHow does someone’s self-harm make us feel? (4:23)
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StartStrategies for working with self-harm
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StartRisk of accidental harm (2:20)
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StartSelf-neglect (3:08)
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StartAssessing the risk of self-neglect (5:43)
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StartQuiz - Module 2 - Working With Self-Harm