Agenda

• How prevalent is self harm / self injury amongst school age young people?
• What are the signs of self injury?
• When and how should schools act?
• Using safety plans – do they actually work?
• Developing a school self injury policy – the who, when and where of what to do
• What staff training is required?
• What is targeted training?
• Developing and implementing a prevention culture
• When is treatment needed?
• What can be done to limit or minimise the incidents of self-injury in schools?

Garry King has extensive experience with working with young people encountering the issues of self harm and suicidal behaviour. This experience is the result of having worked as a teacher, youth worker and counsellor and complemented by degrees in welfare and education as well as masters degrees in counselling and suicidology. He has previously worked as the youth welfare consultant for the Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention. He was appointed an adjunct lecturer, youth welfare at the Central Queensland University and is the recipient of a Churchill Fellowship to the USA. He presently serves as an Lecturer with the Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention,  Australia. Garry has written a number of journal articles and books on youth welfare as well as being a speaker at national and international conferences. His most recent book is “What Every Parent Needs to Know about Their Children and self Injury”. He is a peer reviewer for the International Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention. Garry was an invited author for the 2016 School Social Work USA. Garry was an invited speaker at the 2018 World Positive Psychology, Mindfulness & Psychotherapy Conference in New York.

• Working with students engaged in bullying as group members in order to resolve problems that arise
• Ways in which bullying behavior can be addressed with positive outcomes for the mental health and wellbeing of students
• The important role for school counsellors in implementing a therapeutic intervention: the Method of Shared Concern

Enjoy a glass of champagne whilst networking with other like-minded individuals on topics that are of most interest to you and fellow delegates.

• Dealing with acute stress managements for principals and teachers
• Understanding the challenges faced
• The Flourish Project, and how it helped with Principal Well-being

• Understanding and responding to online/social media harm

• Using music to improve mental health and wellbeing

• Improving Well-Being Through The Arts: The Experience of The Song Room, A Case Study

• Managing Student Well-being in the Vocational Institutes

• Equipping Graduates & HDRs with the mental health skills to cope and adapt, as an important part of research training

• Special Education School Clinic to Improve the Well-being of Children with Intellectual Disabilities

• Use of information technology for the improvement mental health and well-being in schools

• Building Relationships Between Parents, Students and Community: The Key to Delivering Outcomes for Indigenous Students

• Effective Mobile Applications & Technologies That Schools Can Implement to Prevent Cyber Bullying, Harassment and Internet Trolling

• Substance Abuse and Mental Health in Schools: How Teachers Can Intervene with Proven Strategies

While schools are major settings for mental health promotion, leaders in the field know only too well that transferring programs into real-world settings and maintaining them is a complicated, long-term process

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