This workshop attempts to bring theory, evidence-based treatment, and radical empathy to the most clinically challenging of all behaviors: suicide. Encountering suicide is one of the great challenges in providing clinical work with people in distress. Some professionals flee the field after encountering their first suicidal client; Others work an entire career in suicide prevention; Most carry on somewhere in between. This workshop will bring a stance of radical empathy to understanding, managing, and treating suicidal behavior. The ground-breaking work of Shneidman, Orbach, Jobes, and Joiner will be fully referenced. Treatment will be discussed in terms of a cognitive-behavioral approach. Self-care will also be reviewed as a necessary component of working recurrently with suicidal people. Such self-care allows professionals to avoid compassion fatigue and vicarious PTSD. The presenter will draw on his 40 years of experience in working with suicidal persons, with frequent references to successful interventions.

Hosted by The Bridge Training Institute in Marlborough, MA for 6 CEs. For more info, visit: http://thebridgetraininginstitute.org/.