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2-Day Comprehensive Suicide Risk Assessment & Intervention

2-Day Comprehensive Suicide Risk Assessment & Intervention

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The epidemic of suicide continues to wreak havoc in the lives of millions of Americans.

With suicide rates on the rise, the need is urgent for clinicians who can recognize warning signs earlier, intervene with current and proven strategies, and even inoculate clients against the chance of suicidal thoughts emerging in the future. It’s a daunting challenge that has undoubtedly left you feeling confused, overwhelmed, and even scared.

Don’t let fear push you away.

This recording will transform how you view and work with suicidal clients and give you the clinical tools you need to save lives. Over the course of the program, you will dive deeply into a comprehensive approach to suicide risk assessment and intervention. You will gain confidence and a heightened sense of compassion that are essential to understanding where clients are on their life journeys and how you can instill hope and a renewed desire to invest in lives that are worth living.

Finish this recording feeling confident and capable to work with suicidal clients and guide them out of the darkness and back into the light!

Here's What You'll Learn


OVERCOME BIAS AND FEAR

Prepare to do suicide work with compassion and confidence

  • Self-Reflection: Time to unpack our own baggage
  • Countertransference
  • Our own history with suicide

HOT TOPICS IN SUICIDOLOGY

Evaluate the latest developments and their impact on assessment and intervention

  • The latest data, and what to do with it
  • Mental health and suicide
  • Alcohol and suicide
  • Opioids and suicide
  • Additional forms of trauma and suicide
  • Aspiring to Zero Suicide
  • Why “Means Matter”
  • Understanding the many forms of the suicidal mind
  • Soul exhaustion

COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH TO SUICIDE RISK ASSESSMENT & TREATMENT

Determine where to enter the prevention stream, and how to navigate successfully

  • Upstream, midstream, and downstream approaches
  • Build resilience and crisis inoculation
  • Earlier identification and triage
  • Trauma-informed care
  • Learn from the experiences of suicide attempt and loss survivors

RISK ASSESSMENT

Elicit key information from clients

  • The many paths to suicide
  • Communicate caring: Language to impart compassion and avoid stigma
  • Suicide risk assessment
    • SAFE-T
    • IS PATH WARM
    • Ideation, plan, means, intent
    • Level of risk
  • Standardized assessment tools to augment clinical judgment
  • Obtaining collateral information
  • Types of questions to uncover suicidal ideation
    • What if they say “No”?
    • What if they say “Yes”?
  • Behavior chain analysis
  • Why “No Suicide” contracts are dead
  • Best practices in risk assessment

COLLABORATIVE SAFETY AGREEMENTS AND WELLNESS PLANNING

Help clients regulate emotions and feel safe, valued and connected

  • Set up a safety agreement that is more likely to be followed
  • Reduce access to lethal means (C.A.L.M.)
  • The “Stop, Drop, and Roll” of suicide safety planning
  • Treatment strategies built on preserving choice and dignity
    • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
    • Dialectical Behavior Therapy
    • Relapse prevention plans
    • When and how to hospitalize

MAKING MEANING

Help clients reinvest in a life worth living

  • The PIE of life – brainstorm possibilities of growth
  • Narrative psychology and the power of storytelling
  • Cultivate social connection and re-engagement
  • Choice and perspective
  • Foster gratitude and a spirit of contentment after loss
  • Measurements of post-traumatic growth

SAFE AND EFFECTIVE SUICIDE GRIEF & TRAUMA RESPONSE

Implement suicide grief and trauma support

  • Understand the unique nature of suicide grief
  • Peer-based support: Connect clients to other survivors of loss
  • Access and reclaim compassion

Everything You're Getting


  • More than 12 hours of video content
  • CE information to come
  • Handouts and resources

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Meet Your Experts


Sally Spencer-Thomas, PsyD

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Sally Spencer-Thomas, PsyD is a clinical psychologist, award-winning keynote speaker, and impact entrepreneur dedicated to transforming suicide prevention from risk management to meaningful healing. She is internationally recognized for integrating the stories, science, and strategy of suicide prevention to help clinicians, leaders, and organizations move beyond liability-driven care toward compassionate competence. 
 

Dr. Spencer-Thomas is Co-Founder and President of United Suicide Survivors International and co-founder of Man Therapy®, an innovative men’s mental health initiative. She served as the founding Executive Secretary of the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention and has held national leadership roles with the American Association of Suicidology (AAS), including Executive Board Member and Secretary, as well as leadership positions within the International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP). She has served on Lived Experience Advisory Committees for the Suicide Prevention Resource Center and the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (now 988), helping embed lived experience into national strategy. 
 

A TEDx speaker and White House invitee, Dr. Spencer-Thomas has consulted and presented across North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Her most important credential, however, is her lived experience as a suicide loss survivor—a calling that drives her work to help clinicians not only prevent suicide but sustain a passion for living in the people they serve. 


Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Sally Spencer Thomas maintains a private practice and receives royalties as a published author. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Sally Spencer Thomas is the president of United Suicide Survivors International and is a member of the executive board for the American Association of Suicidology. She is co-chair of the Workplace Special Interest Group for the International Association of Suicide Prevention and is a member of the Suicide Prevention Lifeline.

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Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Product Code:
POS055580
Duration:
12 hours, 41 minutes
Copyright:
Dec 18, 2019
Closed Captions:
Available
Format:
Audio and Video

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