ASIST - Applied Suicide Intervention Skills
Develop your understanding and skills to recognise when someone may have thoughts of suicide and work with them to create a plan that will support their immediate safety.
This is a 2 day course in Bristol (you come to us).
Applied Suicide Intervention Skills (ASIST) training is a two-day interactive programme in suicide first aid, developed by LivingWorks Education. ASIST provides an evidence based structure to make a first aid response to someone with thoughts of suicide.
It is a collaborative model and aims to work with the person to stay 'safe for now'. The ASIST model can be used by staff working in a range of settings to provide the understanding and skills to intervene effectively. ASIST can also enhance the skills of people with a lot of experience on suicide prevention.
Available for teams in-house (we come to you).
Course aims
To develop understanding and skills for suicide intervention
Course objectives
By the end of the course participants will have had opportunities to:
- Understand the ways personal and societal attitudes affect views on suicide and interventions
- Provide guidance and suicide first-aid to a person at risk in ways that meet their individual safety needs
- Identify the key elements of an effective suicide safety plan and the actions required to implement it
- Appreciate the value of improving and integrating suicide prevention resources in the community at large
- Recognise other important aspects of suicide prevention including life-promotion and self-care
Venue info:
Courses in Bristol (you come to us)
All courses take place at accessible venues in Bristol.
If for any reason the course cannot be delivered face-to-face, we will take a flexible and responsive approach to keep people learning – which will include delivering the training on the same day as a live interactive online session, or transferring bookings to the next available dates.
Trainer: Suzanne Pearson and Maggie Cameron
"This was fantastic training which I feel has re-enforced and fine-tuned the skills I already have. My role means that I have a lot of experience working with students at risk of suicide. Thank you!"
Course Participant, January 2020
"Very skilled facilitation, creating a safe and non-judgemental place to allow genuine interactions and exploration. Facilitators had an appropriate and high level of professional experience. Very important key messages. Enjoyable as well as educational. Thanks!"
Course Participant, January 2020
"Very well balanced training, excellent trainers. A very difficult emotive subject and the trainers broke down barriers to make this approachable – I feel more confident and equipped than I did to ask that difficult question and empowered to follow the basic process which I can adapt. Brilliant trainers!!"
Administrator
"Thank you so much for this training, you have provided a good tool which I feel able and confident enough to use. I felt very safe on this course to share personal experience and also hear other people’s connections to suicide. You help me to realise how far I have come and how much I am able to help."
Accommodation manager
"The two days were really interesting, very clear and well supervised. I think the skills are practical and useable and I am glad to have done the course."
Student Support
"I found the role play on day two very helpful (and more helpful than I had expected!). Seeing how you could potentially approach a situation in which someone might be at risk of suicide."
Administrator
"Definitely given me more confidence to deal with someone in crisis. Enjoyable course – one of the most useful courses I have done in my current role. Happy to have completed the course."
Administrator
"Helped me to understand the model for suicide intervention. Also really good to work with and meet others at the University who manage difficult and risky student situations. Really helpful course."
Student Caseworker
