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Fostering Hope in Suicidal Clients

Fostering Hope in Suicidal Clients

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When your client expresses a desire to die, it’s not enough to assess suicide risk and make a safety plan. You also need to help the person want to live. How can you facilitate such a critical shift amid feelings of dangerous despair? Drawing from evidence-based practices such as cognitive behavior, mindfulness, and acceptance therapies, this session will cover techniques for generating hope, healing, and reasons for living. You’ll explore how to:

  • Apply specific strategies to inspire hope and problem-solving in the suicidal person
  • Use techniques from evidence-based therapies to help clients challenge suicidal thoughts
  • Help clients relate differently, via acceptance and observation, to their suicidal thoughts

Here's What You'll Learn


  • The two fundamental goals of treatment with suicidal clients
  • Doing clinically useful risk assessment and safety planning and how to integrate hope-based techniques to enhance effectiveness
  • Building hope and identifying reasons for living
  • Challenging hopelessness and cognitive constriction using cognitive behavior therapies
  • Strategies for fostering mindfulness and acceptance
  • Limitations of research and potential risks

Everything You're Getting


  • More than 1 hour of video content
  • CE information to come
  • Handouts and resources

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Digital Seminar
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Meet Your Experts


Stacey Freedenthal, PhD, LCSW

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Stacey Freedenthal, PhD, LCSW, is an educator, psychotherapist, and writer specializing in helping people who experience suicidal thoughts or behavior. She’s authored two books: Helping the Suicidal Person: Tips and Techniques for Professionals (Routledge; 2018) and Loving Someone with Suicidal Thoughts: What Family, Friends, and Partners Can Say and Do (New Harbinger; 2023). Dr. Freedenthal also created the website Speaking of Suicide, and she has authored or co-authored more than 40 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters about suicidality and related topics.  
 
Dr. Freedenthal is an associate professor at the University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work, and a psychotherapist and consultant in private practice. She started working in suicide prevention in 1995, as a volunteer for a suicide hotline. After earning a master’s degree in social work from the University of Texas, she worked in various psychiatric emergency settings before earning her Ph.D. in social work at Washington University in St. Louis. She has been on the DU faculty since 2005, where she teaches classes on suicide assessment and interventions, clinical social work practice, and social justice challenges in mental health practice. 
 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Stacey Freedenthal is a psychotherapist and consultant in private practice and has an employment relationship with the University of Denver. She has a family member with an employment relationship with LivingWorks. She receives royalties as a published author. Dr. Freedenthal receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Stacey Freedenthal is a member of the International Association of Suicide Prevention, the National Association of Social Workers, and the American Association of Suicidology. She uses CBT, CAMS, ACT, and other evidence-based suicide prevention strategies in her presentation.

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Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Product Code:
NOS096297
Duration:
1 hour, 58 minutes
Copyright:
Mar 18, 2023

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