Rethinking Self-Harm

Why we need to rethink self-harm :

The rise in teenage self-harm speaks volumes about the challenges young people face. We must dismantle the stigmas and create a climate of trust to foster open conversations and support healing. Understanding the science of self-harm presents opportunities to eliminate shame and enhance emotional regulation and resilience.

This training takes a uniquely science-based approach to uncover why so many young people are self-harming. It has been developed in consultation with mental health experts, schools, teenagers and their families and draws on insights from neuroscience, evolutionary biology and lived experience.

Expect to learn :

• Why rethinking self-harm begins with understanding ourselves as human

• The neuroscience of how self-harm “works”