Course on coping for those prone to self-harm

A year-long course teaching coping skills is to be offered around Cork city and county, where men have the country’s highest rates of self-harming.

Nine mental health patients who took part in the pilot project received certificates from Mental Health Minister Kathleen Lynch at Cork City Hall yesterday.

As part of their treatment, they availed of group skills training, individual therapy, and out-of-hours phone coaching with a therapist to help let go of patterns of self-destructive behaviour.