Name
Breakout Session 9A: Co-creating the Future, when Meeting Self-harm with a New Perspective
Date & Time
Thursday, July 27, 2023, 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
Location Name
Canada Hall 1
Country of Submission
Denmark
Description

In the workshop we share knowledge about self-harm in people with congenital deafblindness and set focus on a new approach on the understanding of self-harm. A perspective and approach that offers new possibilities, new actions and hope. It is hard to witness people using self-harm, and it is very human to have an immediate urge to intervene to make them stop hurting themselves. For professionals collaborating with people with congenital deafblindness who use self-harm it is often difficult to find the good and right solutions to prevent self-harm. Sometimes the pressure to find a solution can be a barrier so heavy, that no actions are taken at all. But people with congenital deafblindness who harm themselves deserves that their self-harm is taken seriously and acted upon. So, we started to investigate the phenomenon and ended up writing a book - because we wanted to understand why this particular group found harming themselves meaningful and why self-harm are used to express themselves over, and over again. Our aim with this book is to support the professionals around them and give them an opportunity to co-create new understandings about the occurrence of self-harm and to find new solutions, in order to improve the quality of life.