The Office for Human Resources Management & Development, in collaboration with the Health & Wellness Centre will be offering the following course for UM academics. This course will be divided into two workshops. Academics are required to attend for both workshops to successfully complete this course.
Workshop One: Supporting suicidal and severely distressed students
Trainers: Health and Wellness Counselling Professionals
Target audience: Academic members of staff
Workshop Duration: 3 hours
Date: Tuesday 9 March
Time: 09:00 - 12:00
Trainers: Dr Marta Sant and Ms Charmaine Mifsud Cardona
Target Audience: Members of staff who have already completed the course "Supporting Suicidal and severely disressed students".
Workshop duration: 3 hours
Date: Wednesday 10 March
Time: 09:00 - 12:00
The aim of this course is to help the participants to assess the risk of suicide in students and colleagues and provide them with safe and reliable intervention. The training course will use the University of Malta Supporting suicidal and/or severely distressed students staff guidelines. The course is interactive and the training entails a variety of teaching styles and tools. Each participant will receive relevant material and a certificate of attendance.
