Helping People Living with Suicidal Intensity: Risk Formulation, Support and Healing with Confidence and Compassion

Helping People Living with Suicidal Intensity: Risk Formulation, Support and Healing with Confidence and Compassion is organized by Jack Hirose & Associates Inc..

Release Date: 05 - 17 - 2023,
Expiry Date: 11 - 24 - 2023.

Description:
Given that this daunting challenge leaves many mental health providers feeling confused, overwhelmed, and even scared. Many often feel at a loss on how best to help people experiencing suicidal intensity and suicide grief. This workshop will transform how you view and work with people who are fighting to stay and will give you tools you need to help them help themselves. You will dive deeply into a comprehensive approach to suicide risk assessment and intervention and gain confidence and a heightened sense of compassion that are essential to understanding where clients are on their life journeys. Collaborating with clients, you will find ways to instill hope and a renewed desire to invest in lives that are worth living.

Learning Objectives:
Participants will be able to:
• Identify key fears, concerns and gaps in training that create barriers in client-therapist rapport.
• List several “upstream, midstream, and downstream” approaches to suicide prevention – in and outside of the therapeutic relationship.
• Collaborate and connect with individuals at risk of suicide as an ally not an adversary.
• Formulate best-practice conceptualization based on understanding the experience of and root causes of suicidal intensity.
• Address how to effectively work with specific populations including veterans and people from diverse backgrounds.
• Leverage self-empowerment with clients when designing a crisis response and safety plans.
• List reasons why “contracting for safety” and “clipboard counseling” are no longer considered a best practices.
• Reduce access to lethal means through a negotiated partnership agreement that meets people where they are.
• Use universally accessible tools to help clients regulate surges in suicidal intensity and stay out of the hospital.
• Describe the complexities in suicide grief and trauma and provide support across the lifespan.