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Your client just revealed that she’s having suicidal thoughts … what do you do?
Does she have a gun? Has she written letters? Picked a location? Have hope something will change and doesn’t want to hurt family and friends?
Asking your client, “where do you hurt?” often reveals the focus of the suicidal intent or the purpose of self-harm behaviours. As a clinician, it’s important to remember that even though you view suicide and self-harm behaviours as dysfunctional and maladaptive, your client views them as purpose-driven means of eliminating or managing unbearable levels of pain. For your client, these behaviours are beneficial, attractive, and helpful.
Even the most seasoned therapists struggle to develop an empathic view of their client’s devastating methods of managing emotional pain. Learning how to help clients discover the sources of their pain and providing them with healthy options for solving and managing these struggles in their lives is the key to hope.
Through case studies observed in his 45 years as a counsellor and suicidologist, Jack Klott brings to life the ideas, theories, and concepts you need to help your clients:
Watch Jack and learn how to help your clients confront the darkness of suicide and self-harm behaviours. Purchase today!
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| File type | File name | Number of pages | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manual - Suicide & Self-Harm: Stopping the Pain (1.1 MB) | 28 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Suicide & Self-Harm: Stopping the Pain - French (1.1 MB) | 28 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Suicide & Self-Harm: Stopping the Pain - Italian (1.1 MB) | 28 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Jack Klott, MSSA, LCSW, CSWW, Suicidologist, and national speaker has helped and educated tens of thousands in his 45 years of suicide and self-harm client work. Jack is a 35-year member of the American Association of Suicidology and was a founder of the Michigan Association of Suicidology (where he has been recognized for his contribution to suicide prevention in Michigan).
He authored the national best sellers The Suicide and Homicide Risk Assessment and Prevention Treatment Planner (Wiley, 2004), The Co-Occurring Disorders Treatment Planner (Wiley, 2006), and Suicide and Psychological Pain: Prevention That Works (PESI, 2012).
Jack is a popular and sought after seminar speaker on suicide prevention, motivational interviewing, co-occurring disorders and the DSM®. Attendees rave about his unique teaching gift of weaving expertise, passion and compassion into practical, understandable and usable information.
Speaker Disclosures:
The Guiding Principles
Research on Suicide and Research Limitations
The Neurobiological Basis of Suicide
Who Is At Risk?
Non Suicidal Self Injury (NSSI) – The Self-Harming Population
The Suicidal Population
Assessment of Risk
Treatment Considerations for NSSI and Suicidal Populations
The Therapist as A Survivor of Suicide
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