It can happen to anyone working in higher education: a student sends you an email saying that they are planning to commit suicide. Or in a fit of anger, a student threatens to commit violence or an attack.
Fortunately incidents like these don’t happen every day. But when they do, they can have a huge impact on both the student and the staff member. We have developed this course to help you recognise alarming behaviour, and learn how to deal with it and what your responsibilities are.
The course focuses on three categories of alarming behaviour:
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Structure |
This course includes three practice-oriented modules, each focusing on one of the categories of behaviour listed above. You can choose to do the entire course from start to finish or use the menu on the left to go directly to any module or page you want.
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Duration |
Each practice-based module takes about 20 minutes to complete. It will take you 2 to 2.5 hours to complete the practice-oriented modules and the foundation module.
Click on ‘Downloaden (Download) /aanpassen (customise)’ in the main menu and choose ‘Kopieer arrangement (Copy course)’ to make a copy of this course in Wikiwijs and to customise it in your free Wikiwijs account. You can also turn on automatic updates so that any future changes will be added to your copy of the course.