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Self Harm training

CBT with Non-Suicidal Self-Injury: There Must Be A Better Way®

CBT with Non-Suicidal Self-Injury: There Must Be A Better Way® is a 2-day course from the Association for Psychological Therapies (APT), a leading provider of accredited courses for professionals working in mental health and related areas.

It is the only Self-Harm training that is APT-accredited and also gives you access to APT’s relevant downloadable resources for use post-course. The course is available for teams and individuals and can be attended face-to-face or online.

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Executive Summary:

Deliberate non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) 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.

There are approximately 2 million cases of self-injury reported in the US annually, and 90% of people start engaging in self-injury during their teen or pre-adolescent years.

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.

Who should attend?

All professionals who sometimes see people who self harm, whether 1:1 or as part of a team.

The course covers a great deal:

What the course will do for you:

What you receive as a result of attending the training:

You will be registered as having attended the course, thereby gaining APT's Level 1 accreditation, and receive a certificate to this effect. The accreditation gives you access to online resources associated with the course and access to the online exam if you wish to uprate your APT accreditation to Level 2.

Your registration lasts indefinitely, and your accreditation lasts for 3 years and is renewable by sitting an online refresher which also upgrades your accreditation to APT Level 2 if you are successful in the associated online exam.

Your accreditation is given value by the fact of over 150,000 people having attended APT training. See APT accreditation for full details.


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Option 1: Online Anytime course

a pre-recorded course you can study any time. Suitable for individuals and teams / organizations.

An engaging and relevant online course that can be started and accessed at any time and completed at your own pace, taking breaks to assimilate and practice the skills as they are introduced.

Price: $230 per person. The fee covers: 3 years access to the course, certification, registration, and Level 2 APT Accreditation by completing the course and inbuilt exam.
Completion guarantee, for attendees who don’t complete for whatever reason, you can transfer the training to other staff members.

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Option 2: Online Live and Exclusive course:

Live and interactive online course, delivered via Zoom or Teams* exclusively for your team or organization.

Price: $4,375* for a group of up to 15 people, Extra delegates $260 per person. (price includes a workbook for every delegate, posted to one address, or a PDF version can be provided).

*We standardly deliver courses via Zoom (which is recommended). If you would prefer to use Microsoft Teams, there is an additional charge of $130 USD per day.

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Option 3: Face-to-Face Onsite course:

We bring the course and tutor to you for a fixed fee. Suitable for teams and organizations.

Price: $6,730 (plus tutor travel and accommodation expenses) for a group of up to 15 people. Extra delegates: $410 per person. Workbooks for every delegate are included in this price.

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APT Accreditation

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

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 this course, which are updated periodically.

Face-to-Face


Presentation: 97%


Relevance: 95%


Online Live*


Presentation: 100%


Relevance: 97%


*This online live ratings are taken from the last two runnings of the course in this format.

Written Feedback

Reviews.

APT prides itself on the feedback we receive about our courses. Below are just some of the great comments the 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."

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