Chronically suicidal clients present a special kind of stress for therapists: there’s not only the emotional stress of working with their pain, but the additional burden of risk, responsibility, and anxiety.
When should we hospitalize a suicidal client?
How can we best assess when the level of suicidality is an immediate threat to life and safety?
What role should suicide contracts play in our work?
This workshop recording offers practical strategies for developing collaborative approaches with suicidal clients despite their resistance to help and transforming their relationships to self-destructive thoughts and impulses.
This online program is worth 2.0 hours CPD.
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| Manual - Chronic Suicidality and Self-Destructive Behavior (4.9 MB) | 27 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Chronic Suicidality and Self-Destructive Behavior - French (4.9 MB) | 27 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Chronic Suicidality and Self-Destructive Behavior - French (4.9 MB) | 27 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Chronic Suicidality and Self-Destructive Behavior - Italian (4.9 MB) | 27 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Chronic Suicidality and Self-Destructive Behavior - Italian (4.9 MB) | 27 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Janina Fisher, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and former instructor at The Trauma Center, a research and treatment center founded by Bessel van der Kolk. Known as an expert on the treatment of trauma, Dr. Fisher has also been treating individuals, couples, and families since 1980.
She is the past president of the New England Society for the Treatment of Trauma and Dissociation, an EMDR International Association Credit Provider, Assistant Educational Director of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, and a former Instructor, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Fisher lectures and teaches nationally and internationally on topics related to the integration of the neurobiological research and newer trauma treatment paradigms into traditional therapeutic modalities.
She is co-author with Pat Ogden of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Attachment and Trauma (2015) and author of Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation (2017) and the forthcoming book, Working with the Neurobiological Legacy of Trauma (in press).
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Janina Fisher has an employment relationship with the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute. She is a consultant for Khiron House Clinics and the Massachusetts Department of MH Restraint and Seclusion Initiative. Dr. Fisher receives royalties as a published author. She receives a speaking honorarium, recording royalties and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. Dr. Fisher has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Janina Fisher is on the advisory board for the Trauma Research Foundation. She is a patron of the Bowlby Center.
The Challenges of Working with Suicidality and Self-Destructive Behavior
Evaluating Risk: Safe, Less Safe, and Not Safe
Suicidality and Self-Destructive Behavior as Dissociative Symptoms
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