Description

For clinicians, suicide is perhaps one of the most difficult and unsettling clinical experiences that face us. When the suicidal client presents they often instill in us concerns about our clinical competence. Additionally, we may worry about our legal liability and potential lawsuits from distraught and angry relatives. We may also experience some anticipatory grief at the prospect of losing a client through suicide. This course is aimed at increasing the practitioner’s knowledge base and clinical effectiveness in working with this often fragile population.

Learning Objectives:

1.    Identifying and obtaining risk factors in the client’s history

2.    Identifying some theoretical models for suicide

3.    Identifying treatment issues including some of the possible underlying meanings of suicide

4.    Identifying some useful interventions

5.    Identifying some common treatment errors