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Suicide Prevention: Creative Skills and Tools to Move Clients Toward Hope, Purpose and Connection


Speaker:
Nancy K. Farber, PhD
Duration:
Full Day
Format:
Audio and Video
Product Code:
LWC054670
Brochure Code:
PLW70025
Media Type:
Live Webcast - Also available: Digital Seminar | DVD

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Normal Price:      $249.99 - Now:  $49.99 - Exclusive offer when combined with this live training.

Description

Meaningless and isolation – suicidal people don’t feel “a sense of belonging.” Yet common strategies tend to increase this sense of isolation by viewing suicidal individuals as people to be feared, mechanistically observed, and sometimes isolated for their own “safety.”

Watch this live webcast to overcome common fears about approaching the topic of suicidal ideation with clients, and learn creative and compassionate techniques to deeply, warmly, and safely guide your clients through the dark places and back into the light.

You’ll feel transformed in the way you think about suicidal clients, and the way you think about yourself as a helping professional and human being.

Discover how to decrease clients’ sense of isolation, and effectively utilize innovative techniques to restore hope. Role playing and hands-on exercises will give you the opportunity to practice new strategies in a safe, supportive environment.

Sign up today and leave this live webcast with a new confidence and creative skills to help people move from the dark, lonely, meaningless place into a place of hope, purpose, and connection with fellow human beings!

Credit


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NOTE: Tuition includes one free CE Certificate (participant will be able to print the certificate of completion after passing the on-line post-test (80% passing score) and completing the evaluation). 

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Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of your profession.  As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your profession's standards.

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Social Workers - Colorado Social Workers

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Social Workers - Florida Social Workers, Marriage & Family Therapists, and Mental Health Counselors

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling. Provider Number #50-399. This course qualifies for 6.25 continuing education credits.


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PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the State of Minnesota, Board of Social Work. Provider #: CEP-140. This course has been approved for 6.0 continuing education hours. This certificate has been issued upon successful completion of a post-test.


Social Workers - New York Social Workers

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Psychologists - Psychologists

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Psychologists - Canadian Psychologists

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Psychologists - Florida Psychologists

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Psychology. Provider Number #50-399. This course qualifies for 6.3 continuing education credits.


Psychologists - Illinois Psychologists

PESI, Inc is an approved provider with the State of Illinois, Department of Professional Regulation. License #: 268.000102. Full attendance at this course qualifies for 6.25 contact hours.


Psychologists - Illinois Psychologists

 

PESI, Inc is an approved provider with the State of Illinois, Department of Professional Regulation. License #: 268.000102. Full attendance at this self-study course qualifies for 6.25 contact hours.


Psychologists - Kentucky Psychologists

PESI, Inc. is approved by the Kentucky Board of Examiners of Psychology to offer continuing education for psychologists. PESI maintains responsibility for this program and its content. This activity will qualify for 6.25 contact hours.


Psychologists - Ohio Psychologists

PESI, Inc. is approved by the Ohio Psychological Association, Provider #263896894, to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. PESI, Inc. maintains responsibility for this program and its content. PESI is offering this activity for 6.25  hours of continuing education credit. 


Marriage & Family Therapists - Marriage & Family Therapists

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Marriage & Family Therapists - Texas Marriage & Family Therapists

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Marriage & Family Therapists - Illinois Marriage & Family Therapists

PESI has been approved as a provider of continuing education by the State of Illinois, Department of Professional Regulation. Provider #:168-000156. Full attendance at this activity qualifies for 6.0 credits. 


Marriage & Family Therapists - New York Marriage & Family Therapists

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Educators/Teachers

This course is designed to qualify towards your professional development requirement. The course is 6.25 clock hours in length.


New Jersey Educators, Administrators & Education Services Personnel

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Illinois Educators

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6.0 ISBE Professional Development (PD) Clock Hours have been made available through Quincy University. Those requesting ISBE PD Clock Hours will need to complete additional steps in order to receive the ISBE “Evidence of Completion for Professional Development” form. Instructions will be made available the day of the webcast under the “Materials” tab.

 

After completing and passing the online post-test/evaluation you will also need to complete the ISBE required “Evaluation for Workshop, Conference, Seminar, Etc.” form found on the “materials” tab. Please mail this completed form and $20 enrollment fee (if not already paid with, and in addition, to your registration fee) to PESI, Inc., CE Department, PO Box 1000, Eau Claire, WI 54702-1000, along with your name, the full title of the webcast, and date of live broadcast.


Indiana Educators

6.0 Professional Growth Points are available for full attendance at this seminar per the Indiana Department of Education standards. 


Montana Educators

This program is offered for 6.0 Renewal Units. PESI, Inc. is an Approved Renewal Unit Provider with the Montana Office of Public Instruction. 


New York Educators Live

PESI, Inc. is an approved sponsor of CTLE with the New York State Education Department's (NYSED) Office of Teaching Initiatives. Provider #23567. This activity will qualify for 6.25 Approved Continuing Teacher and Leader Education (CTLE) Hour(s), in the area of . Hours are based on full attendance. Board required certificates will be sent after the program.


Texas Educators

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California Nurses

PESI, Inc. is a provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number 17118 for 6.0 contact hours. Full attendance is required. No partial contact hours will be issued for partial attendance. 


Florida Nurses

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Nursing, Provider # FBN2858. This course qualifies for 6.0 contact hours. 

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Iowa Nurses

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider by the Iowa Board of Nursing. Provider #: 346. Full attendance at this activity qualifies for 6.3 contact hours. Full attendance in the activity is required; no partial contact hours will be issued for partial attendance. These contact hours are used for your license renewal. Please email cepesi@pesi.com with your license number, include the webcast title, speaker name and date. PESI must have this number on file in order for your hours to be valid for the webcast.


School Psychologists

PESI, Inc. is approved by the National Association of School Psychologists to offer professional development for school psychologists. PESI maintains responsibility for the program. Provider #1140. PESI is offering this activity for 6.25 hours of continuing education credit. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance.


Ohio Social Workers, Counselors, and Marriage & Family Therapists

PESI is an approved provider with the State of Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage & Family Therapist Board. Provider approval #:RCST071001. Full attendance at this course meets the qualifications for 6.25 clock hours of continuing education credit.


Pennsylvania Social Workers, Counselors, and Marriage & Family Therapists

This intermediate activity is approved for 6.25 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please contact your licensing board to determine if they accept programs or providers approved by other national or state licensing boards. A certificate of attendance will be awarded at the end of the program to participants who are in full attendance and who complete the program evaluation.


California Social Workers, Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, and Licensed Educational Psychologists

This intermediate activity consists of 6.0 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please contact your licensing board to determine if they accept programs or providers approved by other national or state licensing boards. A certificate of attendance will be awarded at the end of the program to participants who are in full attendance and who complete the program evaluation.


Other Professions

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Speaker

Nancy K. Farber, PhD Related seminars and products


Dr. Nancy K. Farber, is a licensed clinical psychologist, school counselor, and veteran professor of school, community, and clinical counseling. She is a humanistic psychologist who is known for her lively, musical, experiential teaching style.

She has served as an associate professor at Eastern Illinois University and a supervising psychologist at Torrance State Hospital where she worked intensively with suicidal clients both in groups and individually, and trained psychology doctoral interns. Dr. Farber specializes in group psychotherapy and has worked at university counseling centers across the country including Purdue University, Illinois State University, Bowling Green State University, and Ball State University. She works as a psychotherapist in private practice in Hershey and Palmyra, PA.

Dr. Farber is also a published researcher and author who has written articles for referred journals and presented both research and training workshops at the American Psychological Association, American School Counselor Association, Illinois Counseling Association, and Pennsylvania Psychological Association.

Dr. Farber holds a Ph.D. in counseling psychology from Ball State University, an MS.Ed. in psychological services from the University of Pennsylvania, and a B.S. in communication arts from Cornell University. She also holds a B.A. in music from Lebanon Valley College.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Nancy Farber maintains a private practice and has employment relationships with Dickinson College and Centre for Music and Mental Health. She receives royalties as a published author. Dr. Farber receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Nancy Farber is a member of the American Psychological Association and the Pennsylvania Psychological Association.


Additional Info

Access Period for Live Webcast

For live CE credit, you must watch the live webcast in its entirety at its scheduled time and complete the CE quiz and evaluation within one week. You will have access for 90 days after the program for review.


Webcast Schedule

Please note: There will be a lunch and two 15-minute breaks; one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Lunch and break times will be announced by the speaker and at their discretion. A more detailed schedule is available upon request.


Objectives

  1. Articulate how suicidal thoughts are related to the universal human concerns of isolation and meaninglessness.
  2. Apply and practice the therapeutic factors that lead to hope and change in suicidal individuals.
  3. Reduce anxiety and increase self-confidence in engaging with suicidal individuals and talking about suicidal thoughts.
  4. Develop and practice creative, experiential approaches including the use of Gestalt techniques, music, and narrative therapy to help individuals move from despair to hopefulness.
  5. Implement group therapy and effectively timed professional self-disclosure as powerful tools for transforming a suicidal individual’s perceptions of self and the world.
  6. Examine the way you think about yourself as a professional and a human being; change the way you think about suicidal individuals.

Outline

Suicidology and the Human Condition
  • The four ultimate concerns
  • Suicidal thoughts are NORMAL – exploration of myths about suicidal ideation
  • A sense of belonging: what decreases suicidal ideation and hopelessness?
Therapeutic Factors that Leads to Reconnection to Humanity, Hope and Self
  • Universality – you’re not alone
  • Catharsis – release emotions and feelings and learn from them
  • Imitative behaviors – modeling what others use to cope
  • Altruism – help others, help yourself
  • Corrective recapitulation of family experiences – change internal voices
  • Instillation of hope – I got through this; you can too
Interactive Psychodrama: Experience and Learn from a Suicidal Journey
  • Practitioner as the vessel
  • Come along my journey – presenter’s experience “on the other side”
  • Illustration of themes of isolation and disconnectedness
  • Modeling effective therapeutic factors and non-effective professional strategies
  • Participant involvement in psychodrama with feedback in critical moments
Hands-on, Experiential Exercises to Develop Our Skills and Confidence
  • Explore fears and experiences with suicidality
  • Experiences and fears as they relate to clients
  • Discussion Groups: What worked, what didn’t
Role Playing and Practicing New Techniques in a Safe Supportive Atmosphere
  • Help clients re-connect to self and humanity
  • Gestalt two-chair and empty chair: unresolved past conflicts
  • Music as a means of human connection
  • Narrative therapy techniques
  • Helping professional as vessel: effective use of self-disclosure – how, when, why
  • Group therapy: how, why, myths about groups
Application and In-The-Moment Practice
  • Facilitated, supported role-plays
  • Applied spirituality
  • Use creativity and intuition

Target Audience

  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Counselors
  • Teachers
  • School Administrators
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Case Managers
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Therapists
  • Nurses
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

Reviews

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Overall:      5

Total Reviews: 6

Comments

Loren L

"Dr. Farber was an excellent instructor. Her honesty and vulnerability was a breath of fresh air. She was an entertaining instructor!"

Robert G

"This is a valuable course. The only thing I would prefer is that the presenter not shout. But it was so sincere and valuable that I just mention it as a minor preference. "

Marta M

"You definitely chose an excellent presenter for the digital course, who kept me engaged for the entire presentation! She is fearless and effective."

Ellen M

"Dr. Farber found a way to make a topic which I have had to take numerous times, seem fresh and new. She was excellent and I would recommend this course to others. "

Nenden S

"This course provided me with expansive perspectives and philosophical approaches to deepen my understanding of suicidal behavior. I challenged my own fears about talking more openly about suicide with patients who have chronic ideation, and this did indeed help to decrease the intensity of the ideation and make it a more honest conversation. Thank you for helping me be a braver clinician and work with the client, joining in more effectively."

Daniele B

"excellent presentation"

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