Suicide and Self-Harm in Adolescents: Effective Assessment and Intervention Strategies for Young People in Crisis 2023

Suicide and Self-Harm in Adolescents: Effective Assessment and Intervention Strategies for Young People in Crisis 2023 is organized by Jack Hirose & Associates Inc..

Release Date: 05 - 17 - 2023
Expiry Date: 10 - 20 - 2023

Description:
All too often clinicians are faced with a suicidal or self-harming young person in their office. The despair felt by these youth and their families is frequently palpable. Even the most competent professional can be left feeling overwhelmed and ill-prepared to offer guidance and hope. Therapists and other helping professionals can find it daunting to sort through the legal, clinical, ethical, and personal issues that these serious challenges can bring up. This workshop offers structure, understanding, and hope to professionals. It is only through gaining these for themselves that clinicians are able to show their clients the paths toward recovery. Through the strategies taught in this workshop, the professional can more easily guide youth and their families back to psychological health. Professionals learn key skills in understanding, assessing, and treating suicide and self-harm in a way that protects them and produces better outcomes for their clients.

Learning Objectives:
• Employ clinical screening and assessment tools to help you determine which clients present the highest risk for suicide considering their use via telehealth.
• Apply motivational techniques that engage resistant suicidal and self-harming teens in the therapeutic process.
• Develop strategies for incorporating schools and peer groups into your treatment plans for suicidal and self-harming clients, and communicate how this multi-systemic approach can improve treatment outcomes.
• Articulate how alternative coping strategies can be introduced in-session to help self-injuring clients manage triggering situations without engaging in self-harm.
• Communicate how clinicians can foster support among family members with techniques that promote problem solving and communication, and help young people feel in control and part of the therapeutic process. Consider the impacts of    the COVID-19 Pandemic on this process.
• Utilize therapeutic interventions from Dialectical Behavior Therapy to improve your client’s coping skills and interpersonal effectiveness.