This eight-week certified and IASW accredited training course is based on a holistic and harm-reduction approach to self-injury and is the first of its kind to be run in Ireland.

The course provides an in-depth programme and draws on the latest research and developments in the field. 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. The course is based on a group learning and participant-centred approach and participants leave the course highly resourced in terms of their own practice and also as leaders and developers of innovative responses in their field.

The course includes modules on:

• Self-injury: definitions, problems, positions
• Embodiment, well-being and the functions of self-injury
• An in-depth, life-course approach to self-injury
• Active listening and facilitating recovery
• Critical mental health
• Harm-reduction
• Creative interventions
• Policy development

Lecturer

Kay Inckle

How to apply

For a registration form please contact Kay Inckle, email: kinckle@tcd.ie, phone: 01 896 2991, or by post to the School of Social Work and Social Policy, Arts Building, Trinity College, Dublin 2.

Fee

The cost of the course is €650 for the eight weeks.

Time and place

The course runs twice a year for eight weekends on Friday evening from 6.30 p.m. - 8 p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Duration

The course runs bi-annually commencing the first week of October and the second week of March each year. Dates are available from the School of Social Work and Social Policy website at http://www.socialwork-socialpolicy.tcd.ie/short-courses/evening.php.

Further information

Contact: Kay Inckle, School of Social Work and Social Policy, Arts Building, Trinity College, Dublin 2. Phone: 01 896 2991, email: kinckle@tcd.ie