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🎧 Welfare and wellbeing workers, counsellors, pastoral support staff, designated safeguarding leads and colleagues with responsibility for oversight and scrutiny of safeguarding and emotional wellbeing.
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Course outline:

More than 200 teenagers a year are lost to suicide.  As self-harming behaviours reach epidemic proportions the safeguarding community needs to be knowledgeable, confident and agile in the prevention and response activity.  The very real question of how we can support people who are harming themselves, or may be at risk of suicide, has never been more critical.

This webinar explores self-harm and suicide and aims to inform and support colleagues working with people affected by self-harm and suicidal thoughts and plans.

Training topics will include:

• The prevalence of self-harm and the prevalence of suicide: what are the drivers?
• What are the links and myths about self-harm and suicide?
• Important signs and indicators to look out for when assessing suicide risk
• Key points for safety planning and working with people at risk.

Learning outcomes:

• Increased knowledge and understanding of the scale and key drivers of self-harming behaviour and suicide risk
• More confidence in differentiating between genuine links, and myths, between self-harming behaviour and suicide risk
• Be more confident in assessing signs that indicate suicide risk
• The ability to develop and implement effective and robust safety planning when working with those who are at risk.

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Speaker: Professor Anasuya Jegathevi Jegathesan

Assoc. Prof. Dr Anasuya Jegathevi Jegathesan is currently the Principle Therapist and Director of Heart Talk Venture. She was previously the Dean of the Faculty of Psychology and Social Sciences at the University of Cyberjaya. She was awarded the top 50 Women in Education Award from the World Education Congress. In 2023/2024 the Selangor State Government awarded her a grant to conduct the research and other public education projects related to managing suicide or self-harm crisis. She is a licensed and practicing counsellor in Malaysia for over 20 years. She is a certified trainer in Reality Therapy and a Thanatologist and sat on the National Advisory Council for Counselling 2017-2018. She has conducted workshops internationally and for numerous corporations such as Alliance Group, ROCHE, Bank Negara Malaysia, Royal Selangor, MIDF and many others. Dr. Anasuya has co-edited a book on Multicultural Counselling: Application of Improved Mental Health Services as well as developed therapy cards “Journey Through Life” to be used in sessions.