Foster Care Training

The goals of this training are to enable participants to list ways that youth and adults within the child welfare system self- injure, and learn about prevention and intervention methods. Through didactic lecture, large and small group discussion, participants will understand who, how, and why people self-harm. Short and long-term effects will be discussed. Treatment options will be explained, and we will discuss how we respond with clients when self-injurious behavior is discovered.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Participants will be able to define self-injurious behaviors
• Participants will understand that self-injurious behaviors are coping mechanisms that are often associated with severe emotional disturbance
• Participants will know who, why and when people self-injure
• Participants will gain an in-depth emotional connection to self-injurers through sharing testimonials
• Participants will understand the myriad choices available for treatment
• Participants will know how best to approach and work with a self-injurious person, while first determining if the participant is the right person to be working with the client in the first place.