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Suicide & Self-Harm: Stopping the Pain
Program Information
Objectives
- Implement a risk assessment strategy that helps clinicians determine which clients present the highest risk for suicide and self-harm.
- Analyze the concept of suicide “contracts” and communicate their impacts on clients, clinicians, and clinical vigilance.
- Explain how intent differentiates self-mutilation from suicide attempts and accurately identify the one form of self-mutilation that is a warning sign for potential suicide completion.
- Implement techniques for effectively intervening in crisis situations and develop a strategy for determining when and how to hospitalize clients.
- Articulate the role of addictions in the suicidal and self-mutilating population and employ a multi-faceted therapeutic approach that ensures client safety and addresses treatment of the addiction.
- Determine the purpose behind self-injuring behavior and communicate how alternative coping strategies can be introduced in therapy to help clients manage triggering situations without self-harm.
Outline
The Guiding Principles
Research on Suicide and Research Limitations
- Research on numbers/methods/treatment
- Limitations of a "psychological autopsy"
- No causality in research
The Neurobiological Basis of Suicide
Who Is At Risk?
- Mental Disorders
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Trauma
- Psychosis
- Addictions
- Personality Disorders
- Other DSM-5® Considerations
- Social Stress Factors
- Adults Factors
- Adolescent Factors
- Childhood Factors
- Psychological Vulnerabilities
- Performance Anxiety
- Emotional Constriction
- Defenseless Personality
- Adaptive Suicide Protectors
- Maladaptive Suicide Protectors
- Fueling Emotions to Suicide and Self-Harm
Non Suicidal Self Injury (NSSI) – The Self-Harming Population
- All Behaviors are Purposeful!
- Relief from:
- Dissociative Conditions
- Self-Hate
- Emotional Constriction
- Psychosis
- Anxiety and/or Depression
- Loneliness, Isolation, Abandonment, Rejection
The Suicidal Population
- Suicide Rehearsal – The Seventh Goal of NSSI
- The Ideator
- Suicide Threats for Secondary Gain
- The Attempter/Completer
Assessment of Risk
- When to Hospitalize the Ideator
- Six Week Warning Signs for the Suicide Completer
- Six Day Warning Signs for the Suicide Completer
Treatment Considerations for NSSI and Suicidal Populations
- Identify the Locus of Pain
- Empathic Regard
- Provided Alternatives
- The Role of Motivation
- Reasons For Living
- The Continuous Hope Providing Relationship
- Mindfulness
- Relationship Effectiveness
- Opening Up Your Emotional Door
- Emotional Regulation
- The Safety Plan
- The Crisis Plan
- Avoid “Contracts”
The Therapist as A Survivor of SuicideObjectives
- Implement a risk assessment strategy that helps clinicians determine which clients present the highest risk for suicide and self-harm.
- Analyze the concept of suicide “contracts” and communicate their impacts on clients, clinicians, and clinical vigilance.
- Explain how intent differentiates self-mutilation from suicide attempts and accurately identify the one form of self-mutilation that is a warning sign for potential suicide completion.
- Implement techniques for effectively intervening in crisis situations and develop a strategy for determining when and how to hospitalize clients.
- Articulate the role of addictions in the suicidal and self-mutilating population and employ a multi-faceted therapeutic approach that ensures client safety and addresses treatment of the addiction.
- Determine the purpose behind self-injuring behavior and communicate how alternative coping strategies can be introduced in therapy to help clients manage triggering situations without self-harm.
Copyright :
09/26/2018
Bonus Video - Stabilizing Unsafe Behavior: Suicide & Self-Injury
Program Information
Objectives
- Describe the implications of the neuroscience research for understanding and treating traumatized individuals
- Identify the neurobiological causes of self-destructive behavior
- Integrate mindfulness-based therapy techniques into the treatment
- Select appropriate interventions for stabilizing addictive and self-destructive symptoms and behavior
Outline
- Unsafe behavior and the neurobiology of trauma
- Changing the client’s relationship to impulsive suicidal and self-destructive behavior
- Somatic and cognitive-behavioral interventions for stabilization
Target Audience
Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Case Managers, Addiction Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, and other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
06/02/2014
Bonus Video - Suicide: The Best Assessment and Treatment Strategies
Program Information
Objectives
- Summarize the five suicidal populations
- Describe the overall treatment plan for the suicidal population
- Explain the importance of the suicide attempt
- Describe the primary marker associated with death by suicide
Outline
Assessment of Suicide Populations
Suicide Ideator
- Markers for Protective Inpatient Treatment
Impulsive Suicide
- Contributing Factors
- Intervention
Suicide for Secondary Gain
Suicide Gesturer
- Intent
- Differentiate from self-mutilation
Suicide Completer/Attempter
- Six Week Warning Signs
- Six Day Warning Signs
Formulation of a Treatment Plan
Empathic Regard
- The Key Relationship
- Avoid Pathologizing
- All Behaviors Are Purposeful
The Role of Motivation
- Meaning of Resistance
- History of Motivation
- Key to Motivation Enhancement
Problem Identification
- Treating People and Not Behaviors
- Discover the Locus of Pain
Providing Alternatives
- Teaching Other Methods of Problem Solving
- Enhancing Resiliency
- Cognitive & Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Target Audience
Counselors, Social Workers, Psychologists, Case Managers, Addiction Counselors, Therapists, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
09/10/2012