New Directions for the Treatment of Suicidal and NSSI Behaviors
Go beyond just book knowledge of suicide. This digital seminar takes a candid, innovative and front line approach to assessing and providing treatment to clients who present with suicidal and self-destructive behaviors. Learn how to assess and treat suicidal patients, and walk away with clinical tools to develop a suicide risk assessment that protects the clinician both ethically and legally.
✔ Tips to recognize key suicidal behaviors and self-destructive behaviors
✔ Crisis intervention techniques
✔ Medication and psychotherapeutic treatments
✔ DSM-5® disorders and suicidal behavior
✔ Special populations and suicide risk
✔ Social media, tele-therapy and suicidal patients
✔ Learn to develop a comprehensive and “legally sound” suicide risk assessment
✔ Interactive Case Studies
Drawing from her years of experience across various populations and treatment settings, Dr. Meagan Houston will provide proven skills in conducting thorough suicide risk assessments, post-suicide risk assessments, and treatment plans with clients who present with suicidal potential. Candid discussion of case studies and use of video clips will also be featured. You will leave the day with…
✔ All the tools necessary to conduct a thorough and “legally sound” suicide risk assessment
✔ A comfort level with your assessment and decision on how to provide treatment
✔ Strategies for the mental health provider when providing crisis intervention in contrast to long-term treatment
✔ An ability to identify six population groups at increased suicidal risk
✔ Ethical and legal concerns with respect to hospitalization and treating suicidal patients
Dr. Houston brings her knowledge, passion, experience, and drive to an issue that most clinicians will encounter at some stage in their career. Get the answers you need to the questions that most clinicians struggle with!
New Directions for the Treatment of Suicidal and NSSI Behaviors
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Meagan N. Houston, Ph.D., SAP, has specialized in providing suicide treatment in a wide variety of settings and populations for over a decade. She has experience in high-risk settings where the application of suicide prevention, assessment and intervention occurs daily. Dr. Houston treats clients who present with a variety of psychological and behavioral disorders -- which lend themselves to acute and chronic suicidality. She emphasizes the use of empirically-based approaches when conducting suicide risk assessments.
Dr. Houston is employed full time with the Houston Police Department Psychological Services Division, and maintains a part-time private practice in Houston, Texas. Previously, she worked in the federal prison system. She has provided psychological, psychoeducational, and chemical dependency programs in private practices and college counseling centers. She has also provided geropsychological services to nursing homes and rehabilitation facilities.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Meagan Houston is in private practice. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.
Non-financial: Meagan Houston has no relevant non-financial relationship to disclose.
Identify Clients at Risk
- Schizophrenia Spectrum and other psychotic disorders
- Bipolar and related disorders
- Depressive disorders
- Anxiety disorders
- Obsessive-Compulsive and related disorders
- Trauma and stressor related disorders
- Dissociative disorders
- Feeding and eating disorders
- Substance-related and addictive disorders
- Personality disorders
- Military
- Geriatric
- Adolescents
- College students
- LGBT
- Prison
- Emotion dysregulation
- Unhealthy coping skills
- Rehearsal
- Preparation
- Desensitization
- Attention-seeking behaviors
Assessment of Suicidal Clients
- 10 essential components
- Chronic and acute risk factors
- Distinguishing morbid ideation vs. suicidal ideation
- Imminent/chronic suicide risk
- Self-care and consultation
- “Post-Suicide” Risk Assessment
- Changing clinical factors
- Remaining risk factors
- Follow-up recommendations
- Ethical, legal implications and case studies
- Confidentiality
- Negligence
- Minor clients
- Informed consent and state-specific laws
- Voluntary vs. involuntary commitment
- When and how to use law enforcement Homicidal ideation
Intervention and Treatment
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy
- Communication
- Case management
- Consultation and Technology
- Tele-Therapy & the NEW APA Guidelines
- Social media implications
- Integrate the four key elements of crisis intervention into treatment
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Other treatment interventions
- Psychopharmalogical intervention and management
- Recognize when patient returns to “status quo”
Objectives
- Identify four acute risk factors and four chronic risk factors associated with increased suicide risk.
- Recognize the essential components of a thorough suicide risk assessment.
- Reinforce your skill set with the critical ethical and legal obligations involved when treating a suicidal patient.
- Develop an understanding of the indicators of clinician counter-transference issues that may interfere when treating a suicidal patient.
- Recognize the foundational components related to para-suicidal behaviors that increase the risk for death by suicide.
- Differentiate between morbid ideation (“thoughts of death”) and suicidal ideation.
- Describe how social media, technology, and “tele-therapy” affect provider’s role in treating suicidal ideation, intent or plan.
- List the “special population groups” who are at increased risk for suicidality.
New Directions for the Treatment of Suicidal and NSSI Behaviors
Valued at $249.99
Limited Time Only $149.99 — Hurry, this offer ends soon!
Click here for Credit details.