Training manual to boost care for self-harmers

Mental Health Nursing,  Mar 2007  

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A new training manual for those involved in caring for young people who self-harm has been launched by charity YoungMinds. see beyond the label: empowering young people who self-harm offers a method of involving young people who self-harm, and those staff who seek to support them, to achieve four key aims: to provide opportunities to think about our attitudes about self-harm; to increase understanding about why children and young people self-harm; to seek out ways to tackle the stigma commonly associated with expressions of mental distress; and to ensure the involvement of young people who self-harm in the design, implementation and evaluation of local self-harm protocols. The charity hopes the manual will support the provision of coordinated, consistent and respectful services to address the mental health needs of children and young people who self-harm. The manual was written by CAMHS consultant Jude Sellen, published by YoungMinds, and was funded by the Camelot Foundation. The manual costs £75 from the YoungMinds Order Line.

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