Understanding and Responding to Self-Injury Training and Courses

One-day Training
Friday 29th January

Time: 9:30-5:00
Location: Central Dublin (TBC on registration)
Cost: €70 per person (includes materials, tea and coffee but lunch is not provided)

Training Outline
Self-injury (often called self-harm) is a widespread experience across all sectors and yet there is little information or resources available which enables people to understand and respond to self-injury. Because of this interactions around self-injury are often fraught with anxiety, confusion and fear. In this training we undertake a deep and holistic exploration of self-injury, the individuals involved, and best-practice responses for those who work with or share their lives with people who hurt themselves. The course is based on a person-centred and a harm-reduction ethos.

The one day training is aimed to provide basic knowledge, skills and good practice interventions for understanding and responding helpfully to self-injury across a variety of contexts. It aims to resource participants to feel confident and knowledgeable in their practice and to implement a range of helpful responses to self-injury both in the immediate and long-term.

The training is interactive and participant-focused, using group work, multi-media technologies and drawing on some of the latest research in this area. Participants are provided with handouts, worksheets and relevant resource materials.

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Eight Week Course Certificate Courses: Dublin 2010

Understanding and Working with Self-Injury
A Harm-Reduction Approach

This is an in-depth training programme for people who are looking to deepen their understanding and work with self-injury. It takes a broad, holistic and critical view, enabling participants to understand and apply best-practice responses suited to their particular setting and to work intensively on knowledge, skills, practice and policy development for their field. Participants will leave the course highly resourced in terms of their own practice and also as leaders and developers of innovative responses in their field.

Dublin
The course runs in Trinity College on Friday evenings from 6:30-8:00 p.m. and Saturday day-times from 9:00-2:00 for eight weeks from 12th March to 14th May 2010 (with a break 2nd-3rd April for Easter and 16-17th April for the Trinity Ball).

In the certificate course there are two small assignments, one class-room based, to be completed and assessed as part of the course.

Cost of the course €550

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In-House Training and Consultancy

Tailor made training packages are also available for a variety of workplace and community settings, and in-house consultancy and policy development services are also available. Facilitation and group work with service-users is also provided.

Trainer Profile

Dr Kay Inckle is located in the School of Social Work and Social Policy in Trinity College Dublin where, from 2007-2009, she completed an IRCHSS post-doctoral fellowship, using creative methodologies to research a harm-reduction approach to self-injury. Prior to this Kay has worked with self-injury in a variety of contexts, including as a social-care practitioner, as a PhD and post-doctoral researcher, as a lecturer, and as a trainer to a broad range of service providers. In 2009 she set up a certificate course in understanding and working with self-injury from a harm-reduction ethos which runs in Trinity College and Galway. In 2009 she also founded Kreative Interventions: Self-Injury Research, Training and Consultancy to develop awareness and provide information and training tin this field (www.kreativeinterventions.com). In March 2008 she convened Ireland’s first ever National Self-Injury Awareness Day, a now annual event. She has a number of publications on self-injury and related issues including her forthcoming book Flesh Wounds? New Ways of Understanding Self Injury.

Contact: Kay Inckle to register for courses or for further information.

Dr Kay Inckle
School of Social Work & Social Policy
Trinity College
Dublin 2
Email: kay@kreativeinterventions.com
kinckle@tcd.ie

Tel: 01 8962991(afternoons only)