Wellbeing Report 2024 v.02 (1) - Flipbook - Page 12
Emotions factors
Outcomes and opportunities
We have developed training for staff in supporting
emotional regulation and suicide prevention for
autistic people. This training empowers staff to
prompt strategies that can help people to manage
strong or overpowering emotional states.
6%
31%
47%
63% of people identified improvement and positive
outcomes with managing their emotional needs.
Some examples include:
4 people have personalised sensory support
programmes that are used daily
16%
2 people have been supported through intense crisis
periods successfully at home
Anxiety
Depression
Overload
Psychosis
33% incidents tracked identified difficulty with
managing and experiencing strong emotions in
2023-2024. The most common emotion that was
difficult to manage was anxiety and 4 people
experienced such overwhelming emotional states
that they would go into states of shut down lasting
for hours or days at a time, or meltdown in which
they may have multiple behaviours of concern
and find it difficult to hear or respond to support
during that time. Overload was exclusively occurring
in individuals with additional sensory needs and
diagnoses of ADHD and autism.
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1 person has successfully stopped using alcohol as a
coping strategy for over 10 months
1 person has not harmed themselves in over a year
with emotional regulation strategie
