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| Programme title: | Suicide and Self Harming Behaviour: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Assessment and Management |
| Apply: | direct to the University via the NHS Business Unit |
| Start (pt): | September |
| Mode: | part-time |
| Duration: | 1 semester |
| Location: | Butterfield Park campus |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Health & Social Sciences |
Suicidal and self-harming behaviours make increasing demands on services across the entire spectrum of health and social care. People in contact with individuals displaying these behaviours need to feel equipped to deal effectively with the demands placed on them. Standard seven of the NSF for Mental Health (1999) reinforces this focus. Working with the suicidal or self-harming individual can generate anxiety for even the most experienced practitioner. All health care workers need to review thoroughly their practices, procedures and underlying attitudes toward self-harm and suicide.
The key theoretical perspectives explaining suicide and self-harm are explored alongside the knowledge, skills and attitudes needed to undertake risk assessment and implement therapeutic interventions.
Your learning will be supported through a student centred work focused learning approach. The unit is evidence based and related to current local and national agenda’s. There will be opportunities for you to engage in a variety of learning experiences. In this way you will be encouraged to take back to your own practice area the key learning outcomes of the unit. This process will be supported by lecturer facilitation, including the delivery of key presentations around the learning outcomes, as well as specialist sessions and the opportunity to develop key skills in a controlled environment, where appropriate.
You will also be required to plan how to meet the unit learning outcomes, in theory and practice, relating them to your own practice environment through the completion of the required assignments. Additionally your learning will be supported via tutorials, group work, E-learning via BREO and E-learning library resources. You will be able to bring your reflections on experiences in practice to enable integration of theory to practice.
A major part of the learning experience will occur through self directed study, this requires time to reflect, analyse and evaluate experiences from theory and practice, including the client’s journey through care.
Essential:
Howton K (2005) Prevention and Treatment of suicidal behaviour: from Science to Practice, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Recommended / Background:
Blackburn, L. (2007) There will always be a sunrise Chipmonkapublishing, Brentwood
DH (2002) National Suicide Prevention Strategy for England: Consultation Document
DH (2002) National Suicide Prevention Strategy for England
DH (2006) From values to action: the Chief Nursing Officer’s review of mental health nursing, DH, London
DH (2007) Mental Capacity Act 2005: Mental Health Training Set, DH, London
Durkheim, E. (2000) Suicide: a study in sociology, London: Routledge.
Selekman MD (2002) Living on the Razor’s Edge: Solution-orientated Brief Therapy with Self-harming Adolescents, New York: WW Norton
Turp M (2003) Hidden Self-Harm: Narratives from Psychotherapy, London: Blackwell
Available to all health care professionals/workers currently working or placed within a practice environment related to this unit.
Contact NHS Business Unit for fees.
See Unit Delivery Schedule below for dates.
For further information about this programme, please contact Senior Lecturer: Bruce Wallace
T: 01582 743897
E: bruce.wallace@beds.ac.uk
How to apply:
Please contact the NHS Business Unit or download an application form from the website.
E: nhs-business-unit@beds.ac.uk
T: 01582 743048
F: 01582 743704
