Exploring Suicidal Emotions
This course provides an introduction to the thoughts, feelings, and behaviours associated with suicidal emotions, helping learners develop greater understanding, sensitivity, and awareness when supporting individuals experiencing emotional distress.
Learning Outcomes
The Exploring Suicidal Emotions course offers a compassionate and informed understanding of the complex feelings, circumstances, and experiences that can lead individuals to self-harm or develop suicidal thoughts. The session begins by encouraging learners to reflect on their own perceptions and emotional reactions, helping them build greater self-awareness and prepare for sensitive conversations. Participants will examine a range of factors that may contribute to suicidal tendencies, including emotional distress, trauma, social pressures, and environmental influences.
A key part of the course focuses on dispelling common myths, reinforcing accurate information, and highlighting the importance of recognising early warning signs. Learners explore distraction and avoidance techniques, alongside practical interventions that can help individuals manage overwhelming emotions more safely. The session also covers how to plan, monitor, and review incidents appropriately, ensuring that responses remain supportive, structured, and aligned with best practice.
Participants will discuss the effects of self-harm not only on the individual but also on staff and those providing support, acknowledging the emotional impact these situations can have. The course provides insight into managing difficult feelings such as anger, aggression, and despair, offering guidance on how to remain calm, centred, and professional.
Throughout the session, learners develop effective listening tools, communication strategies, and techniques for diffusing challenging interactions. They will also gain confidence in responding appropriately to sensitive subjects, allowing them to offer understanding, reassurance, and safe support when it is most needed.
By the end of the course, learners will have a deeper understanding of suicidal emotions and the skills required to engage safely, compassionately, and confidently with individuals experiencing emotional crisis.
By the end of this course, participants will have a deeper understanding of the emotions and circumstances that contribute to suicidal thoughts and self-harm, along with the skills to communicate effectively, respond safely to sensitive situations, and support individuals experiencing distress with confidence, awareness, and compassion.
- Exploring perceptions and personal reactions
- Examining experiences and circumstances that can lead to self-harm and suicidal tendencies
- Awareness of distractions, avoidance techniques and interventions
- Understanding difficult feelings and circumstances i.e. anger and aggression.
- Diffusing difficult service user contacts
- £38.50(LSCP Members)
- £50.00(Non-Members)
In order to attend any of these sessions a booking form needs to be completed (even for sessions ‘Free to Members’, as we need to account for room capacity and a fair distribution of free places among organisations).