Graduate Certificate in Managing Youth Self-Harm and Suicide (GC-MANYSHS) // Attributes, outcomes and skills

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Intended learning outcomes

On successful completion of this course, students should be able to:

  • Outline the major theories of youth mental health and suicidal processes
  • Describe the key risk and protective factors that underlie mental ill-health, deliberate self-harm and suicidal behaviour in young people
  • Describe and apply tailored approaches to engaging and assessing young people experiencing mental ill-health
  • Discuss the biological, psychological and social factors contributing to mental ill-health, self-harm and suicide-related behaviours in young people
  • Prepare evidence-informed prevention, intervention and safety management strategies for deliberate self-harm and suicide-related behaviours in clinical and community settings
  • Apply evidence-informed assessment strategies to identify young people at risk of deliberate self-harm or suicide
  • Design and critically evaluate safety management plans for young people at risk of deliberate self-harm or suicidal behaviour

Generic skills

The Graduate Certificate in Managing Youth Self-Harm and Suicide will enhance students’:

  • Capacity to translate knowledge into practice
  • Critical and analytical thinking skills
  • Problem solving skills
  • Written communication skills
  • Capacity for logical and independent thought
  • Information management skills
  • Time management skills
  • Ability to find, evaluate and use relevant information
  • Skills in information technology
  • Ethical awareness and practice

Graduate attributes

Knowledge

Graduates of the Graduate Certificate in Managing Youth Self-Harm and Suicide will have acquired advanced knowledge in the specialized area of preventing and managing self-harm and suicide in young people.


Skills

Graduates of the Graduate Certificate in Managing Youth Self-Harm and Suicide will have developed:

  • cognitive skills to review, analyse, consolidate and synthesize knowledge and identify and provide solutions to complex problems
  • cognitive skills to think critically and to generate and evaluate complex ideas
  • specialized technical and creative skills in a field of professional practice
  • communication skills to demonstrate an understanding of theoretical concepts
  • communication skills to transfer complex knowledge and ideas to a variety of audiences


Application of knowledge and skills

Graduates of the Graduate Certificate in Managing Youth Self-Harm and Suicide will demonstrate the application of knowledge and skills:

  • to make high level, independent judgements in a range of functions in varied specialized contexts
  • to initiate, plan, implement and evaluate broad functions within varied specialized contexts with responsibility and accountability for personal outputs and all aspects of the work or function of others within broad parameters

Last updated: 21 February 2025