SAFE in Oz has developed out of the SAFE (Self-Abuse Finally Ends) program successfully established in Canada by the co-founders Mary Graham and Dr Dorothy Haswell. The consumer program is a unique, innovative treatment for people who self-abuse. It offers those individuals an opportunity to learn to contain their reactions to their problems of living. This is achieved by exploring healing ways to soothe their emotional pain, allowing them to recognise the triggers to self-abuse and breaking the cycle in a supportive peer group environment or with their support worker or therapist. A significantly high number of consumers who have participated in SAFE programs have been able to finally stop their self-abuse and now lead healthy, happy and fulfilling lives.
SAFE in Oz provides training to professionals to allow them to better understand the concept of self-abuse and working with individuals who self-abuse. We also train workers to facilitate, on a group and one-to-one level utilising a module- based consumer recovery package.
We are offering a 2 day workshop, 'An Introduction To Working With Individuals Who Self-Abuse'. This is a pre-requisite for further training in a 3 day workshop titled 'Facilitating the SAFE in Oz Consumer Program'.
A minimum of 20 and a maximum of 30 participants is required for each workshop to proceed.
- Expose self-abuse as a mental health issue.
- Stimulate increased action to address self-abuse.
- Facilitate the healing process through the health professional network.
- Provide a prerequisite for the three day training workshop - 'Facilitating the SAFE in Oz Consumer Program'.
Day One: Self-abuse, what is it all about?
- What is self-abuse?
- How do we know it is self-abuse?
- Why do individuals self-harm?
- How does self-harm start?
- What are the triggers for self-abuse and why do we do it?
Day Two: Our response to self-abuse
- Meeting the needs of someone who self-abuses
- Hospitalisation and associated problems
- Treatment environments and points of intervention
- Boundaries, support plans and essentials for behavioural change
- Meeting the needs of and supporting the worker
