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Suicide & Self-Mutilation: Stopping the Pain

Average Rating:
   99
Speaker:
Jack Klott, MSSA, LCSW, CSWW, Suicidologist
Duration:
5 Hours 51 Minutes
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
Jul 29, 2016
Product Code:
POS011110
Media Type:
Digital Recording - Also available: Digital Recording
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Description

Your client just revealed that she’s having suicidal thoughts...what do you do?

Does she have a gun? Has she written letters? Picked a location? Have hope something will change and doesn’t want to hurt family and friends?

Asking your client, “where do you hurt?” often reveals the focus of the suicidal intent or the purpose of self-harm behaviors. As a clinician, it’s important to remember that even though you view suicide and self-harm behaviors as dysfunctional and maladaptive, your client views them as purpose-driven means of eliminating or managing unbearable levels of pain. For your client, these behaviors are beneficial, attractive, and helpful.

Even the most seasoned therapists struggle to develop an empathic view of their client’s devastating methods of managing emotional pain. Learning how to help clients discover the sources of their pain and providing them with healthy options for solving and managing these struggles in their lives is the key to hope.

Through case studies observed in his 45 years as a counselor and suicidologist, Jack Klott brings to life the ideas, theories and concepts you need to help your clients:

  • Identify the seven goals of self-harm
  • Implement a risk assessment strategy to determine who presents the highest risk for suicide and self-harm
  • Recognize the profound danger of engaging in “contracts” with your clients
  • Discuss the four essential elements of therapy with suicidal and self-harming clients
  • Understand how “fear of litigation” can severely detract from your ability to help the suicidal population


Join Jack and learn how to help your clients confront the darkness of suicide and self-harm behaviors.

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Handouts

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PDF Manual (0.85 MB) 29 Pages Available after Purchase
PDF Manual - French (0.85 MB) 29 Pages Available after Purchase
PDF Manual - Italian (0.85 MB) 29 Pages Available after Purchase

Speaker

Jack Klott, MSSA, LCSW, CSWW, Suicidologist Related seminars and products

Jack Klott, MSSA, LCSW, CSWW, Suicidologist, and national speaker has helped and educated tens of thousands in his 45 years of suicide and self-harm client work. Jack is a 35-year member of the American Association of Suicidology and was a founder of the Michigan Association of Suicidology (where he has been recognized for his contribution to suicide prevention in Michigan).

He authored the national best sellers The Suicide and Homicide Risk Assessment and Prevention Treatment Planner (Wiley, 2004), The Co-Occurring Disorders Treatment Planner (Wiley, 2006), and Suicide and Psychological Pain: Prevention That Works (PESI, 2012).

Jack is a popular and sought after seminar speaker on suicide prevention, motivational interviewing, co-occurring disorders and the DSM®. Attendees rave about his unique teaching gift of weaving expertise, passion and compassion into practical, understandable and usable information.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Jack Klott maintains a private practice. He receives royalties as a published author. Jack Klott receives a speaking honorarium, product, and book royalties from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Jack Klott is a member of the American Association of Suicidology and the Michigan Association for Suicide Prevention.

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Suicide & Self-Harm: Stopping the Pain
Copyright: 03/11/2022

Outline

Who Is At Risk?

  • Biological Factors
    • Anxiety Disorders
    • Mood Disorders
    • Psychotic Disorders
    • Substance-Related Disorders
  • Social Stress Factors
    • Adult, Adolescent, Child
  • Psychological Factors
    • Performance Anxiety
    • Emotional Constriction
    • Defenseless Personality
  • Fueling Emotions to Suicide and Self-Mutilation
    • Hopelessness
    • Helplessness

People Who Self-Mutilate

  • DSM-5® & Self-Harm Syndrome
  • Achieve Body Integrity
  • Emotional Regulation
  • Protect From Abandonment

Treatment Plan for the Self-Mutilating Population

  • The “Therapy Alliance”
  • Empathic Regard
  • Go to the Locus of Pain
  • Providing Alternatives and the Role of Motivation
  • Aware of Addiction Potential
  • When Inpatient Is (and is NOT) Needed

People Who Experience a Suicide Crisis

  • Gesturer—Self-Mutilation as Rehearsal for Suicide
  • Ideator
  • Attempter/Completer

Assessment of Risk

  • Four Questions to Determine Suicide Attempt History
  • Four Questions to Ask the Suicide Ideator
  • When to Hospitalize a Suicide Ideator
  • Treatment Strategy for the Suicide Ideator

6-Week Warning Signs for the Suicide Completer

  • Profile
  • Risk Factors
  • History of Attempts
  • Warning Signs
  • The Danger of “Contracts”
  • When and How to Hospitalize

6-Day Warning Signs for the Suicide Completer

  • The Amazing Reversile
  • Fear of Litigation

Treatment Plan: The Four Components

  • Safety Planning
  • Crisis Planning
  • Problem Identification
  • Problem-Solving Skills Enhancement

The Therapist as a Survivor of Suicide

Objectives

  1. Implement a risk assessment strategy that helps clinicians determine which clients present the highest risk for suicide and self-harm.
  2. Analyze the concept of suicide “contracts” and communicate their impacts on clients, clinicians, and clinical vigilance.
  3. Explain how intent differentiates self-mutilation from suicide attempts and accurately identify the one form of self-mutilation that is a warning sign for potential suicide completion.
  4. Implement techniques for effectively intervening in crisis situations and develop a strategy for determining when and how to hospitalize clients.
  5. Articulate the role of addictions in the suicidal and self-mutilating population and employ a multi-faceted therapeutic approach that ensures client safety and addresses treatment of the addiction.
  6. Determine the purpose behind self-injuring behavior and communicate how alternative coping strategies can be introduced in therapy to help clients manage triggering situations without self-harm.

Target Audience

Counselors, Mental Health Professionals, Therapists, Social Workers, Psychologists, Addiction Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, Nurses, and Other Caring professionals

Reviews

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Overall:      4.9

Total Reviews: 99

Comments

Marla G

"Jack was an excellent presenter. He made this workshop very enjoyable and extremely informative"

Rachael R

"EXCELLENT TRAINING!!! exceeded my expectations, presenter was wonderful!!!"

Anna C

"Jack Klott was fantastic. It's really wonderful to be taught be practitioners with decades of experience. "

Patricia L

"I have taken 3 suicide courses in 6 years; this was by far the best"

Brenda W

"excellent, informative, brilliant"

Julie R

"very enthusiastic presenter"

Mary F

"Excellent presentation. "

Serena J

"The best webinar that I've attended this year."

Athena D

"Enjoyed the webinar despite the technical difficulties. ... Jack is very knowledgeable!"

James E

"Mr. Klott was an excellent webcast presenter"

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