Does she have a gun? Has she written letters? Picked a location? Does she have hope something will change and doesn’t want to hurt family and friends?
Helping clients confront the darkness of suicide and self-harming behaviors is difficult for even the most seasoned therapists. But when you know how to help clients discover the sources of their pain and provide them with healthy options for solving and managing the struggles in their lives, you can offer them the key to hope.
In this groundbreaking new course, nationally known suicide prevention author and speaker Jack Klott, MSSA, LCSW, CSWW, shares expert clinical insight from his 45-year career as a suicidologist and counselor, and bring to life ideas, theories and core concepts that you can immediately use to help your clients manage their emotional pain and behaviors.
You'll learn the reasons why clients self-harm or attempt suicide and the neurobiological basis of suicide, effective assessment strategies to identify the major warning signs of a pending suicide that could save your client's life — and increase your confidence and effectiveness in treating clients without the fear of liability.
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Asking your client, “where do you hurt?” often reveals the focus of the suicidal intent or the purpose of self-harm behaviors. As a clinician, it’s important to remember that even though you view suicide and self-harm behaviors as dysfunctional and maladaptive, your client views them as purpose-driven means of eliminating or managing unbearable levels of pain. For your client, these behaviors are beneficial, attractive, and helpful.
In this online course, you'll learn how to develop an empathic view of your client’s behaviors, so you can help them discover the sources of their emotional pain and provide them with healthy, less harmful options for solving and managing their struggles to transform their outcomes.
Through engaging conversation and case studies, you will learn to:
- Implement a risk assessment strategy to help determine which clients present the highest risk for suicide and self-harm.
- Differentiate self-mutilation from suicide attempts and accurately identify when self-mutilation is a warning sign for potential suicide completion.
- Recognize the profound danger of engaging in suicide “contracts” and communicate their impact on clients, clinicians, and clinical vigilance.
- Determine the goals and purpose behind self-injuring behaviors and apply clinical strategies to help clients manage triggering situations without engaging in self-harm.
- Intervene in crisis situations and develop a strategy for determining when and how to hospitalize clients.
- Consider the role of addictions in the suicidal and self-mutilating population, and employ a multi-faceted therapeutic approach that ensures client safety while treating the addiction.
- Overcome the “fear of litigation” that can severely detract from your ability to help the suicidal population.
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Stabilizing Unsafe Behavior: Suicide & Self-Injury featuring Janina Fisher, Ph.D.
This video uses a neurobiological lens for looking at traumatized individuals carrying a range of diagnoses troubled by addiction, self-destructive and suicidal behavior. We will explore the implications of a neuroscientifically-informed perspective on treatment and present the latest advances in effective interventions. When the trauma symptoms are “decoded” in this way, stuck, self-destructive, and therapy-destructive presentations become more understandable and manageable.
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Suicide and Psychological Pain, with Jack Klott, MSSA, LCSW, CSWW
Identify suicide potential from the latest clinical research on risk factors, the impact of mental disorders, social stressors, and psychological vulnerability. Inside you will find tools to help those individuals who are engaging in self-injury and homicidal behaviors. Filled with specific examples and stories, effective assessments, strategies for treatment planning, and evidence-based interventions this is an essential resource for all therapists!
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Suicide: The Best Assessment and Treatment Strategies featuring Jack Klott, MSSA, LCSW, CSWW
Join Jack Klott, as he shares from his 45+ years of clinical mental health experience working with suicidal populations, and take away the skills needed to identify, assess and treat clients in relation to the goals of their suicide intent.
Jack Klott, MSSA, LCSW, CSWW, SUICIDOLOGIST, and national speaker has helped and educated tens of thousands in his 45 years of suicide and self-mutilation 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).
Jack 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 (Premier Publishing & Media, May, 2012).
He 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: Financial: Jack Klott receives royalties as an author for PESI Publishing & Media and Wiley & Son Publishing. He receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. Nonfinancial: Jack Klott is a member of the American Association of Suicidology; and the Michigan Association for Suicide Prevention.
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You'll have the opportunity to instantly collaborate with other professionals on the course materials through interactive message boards. You'll be part of a community of practitioners all focused on these materials, providing valuable opportunities to share insight and experiences, and to build your professional network.
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