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Managing deliberate self-harm in young people: An evaluation of a training program developed for school welfare staff using a longitudinal research design
BACKGROUND: Although deliberate self-harm is prevalent among young people, many who engage in deliberate self-harm receive sub-optimal care. Although schools are a well placed setting to support young people who engage in self-harm there are no specific training packages designed to assist school we...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2564929/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18789166 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-244X-8-75 |
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author | Robinson, Jo Gook, Sara Yuen, Hok Pan McGorry, Patrick D Yung, Alison R |
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description | BACKGROUND: Although deliberate self-harm is prevalent among young people, many who engage in deliberate self-harm receive sub-optimal care. Although schools are a well placed setting to support young people who engage in self-harm there are no specific training packages designed to assist school welfare staff to support these young people. The current study aimed to design, deliver and evaluate a training course specifically for school staff. METHODS: The study employed a longitudinal design. Two hundred and thirteen people participated in the training and evaluation. A questionnaire was administered at baseline, immediately after the training and at 6-month follow-up in order to determine if the training led to improvements in confidence when working with young people who self-harm, perceived skill, knowledge of, and attitudes towards people who self harm. RESULTS: Prior to the course, the majority of participants demonstrated relatively high levels of confidence, perceived skill and knowledge of self-harm and endorsed relatively positive attitudes towards people who engage in self-harm. Despite this, significant improvements were observed in terms of increased confidence, increased perceptions of skill along with increased knowledge of deliberate self-harm. These improvements were sustained over the follow-up period. CONCLUSION: The results demonstrated that the provision of specifically designed training can help school welfare staff to feel better equipped to support young people who are engaging in deliberate self-harm. |
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spelling | pubmed-25649292008-10-09 Managing deliberate self-harm in young people: An evaluation of a training program developed for school welfare staff using a longitudinal research design Robinson, Jo Gook, Sara Yuen, Hok Pan McGorry, Patrick D Yung, Alison R BMC Psychiatry Research Article BACKGROUND: Although deliberate self-harm is prevalent among young people, many who engage in deliberate self-harm receive sub-optimal care. Although schools are a well placed setting to support young people who engage in self-harm there are no specific training packages designed to assist school welfare staff to support these young people. The current study aimed to design, deliver and evaluate a training course specifically for school staff. METHODS: The study employed a longitudinal design. Two hundred and thirteen people participated in the training and evaluation. A questionnaire was administered at baseline, immediately after the training and at 6-month follow-up in order to determine if the training led to improvements in confidence when working with young people who self-harm, perceived skill, knowledge of, and attitudes towards people who self harm. RESULTS: Prior to the course, the majority of participants demonstrated relatively high levels of confidence, perceived skill and knowledge of self-harm and endorsed relatively positive attitudes towards people who engage in self-harm. Despite this, significant improvements were observed in terms of increased confidence, increased perceptions of skill along with increased knowledge of deliberate self-harm. These improvements were sustained over the follow-up period. CONCLUSION: The results demonstrated that the provision of specifically designed training can help school welfare staff to feel better equipped to support young people who are engaging in deliberate self-harm. BioMed Central 2008-09-15 /pmc/articles/PMC2564929/ /pubmed/18789166 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-244X-8-75 Text en Copyright © 2008 Robinson et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Robinson, Jo Gook, Sara Yuen, Hok Pan McGorry, Patrick D Yung, Alison R Managing deliberate self-harm in young people: An evaluation of a training program developed for school welfare staff using a longitudinal research design |
title | Managing deliberate self-harm in young people: An evaluation of a training program developed for school welfare staff using a longitudinal research design |
title_full | Managing deliberate self-harm in young people: An evaluation of a training program developed for school welfare staff using a longitudinal research design |
title_fullStr | Managing deliberate self-harm in young people: An evaluation of a training program developed for school welfare staff using a longitudinal research design |
title_full_unstemmed | Managing deliberate self-harm in young people: An evaluation of a training program developed for school welfare staff using a longitudinal research design |
title_short | Managing deliberate self-harm in young people: An evaluation of a training program developed for school welfare staff using a longitudinal research design |
title_sort | managing deliberate self-harm in young people: an evaluation of a training program developed for school welfare staff using a longitudinal research design |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2564929/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18789166 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-244X-8-75 |
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