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Digital Seminar

Treating Suicide Risk with Competence and Confidence: How to Move Beyond Our Fears


Faculty:
David Jobes, PhD, ABPP
Duration:
3 Hours
Copyright:
Mar 13, 2022
Product Code:
NOS096230
Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Access:
Never expires.


Description

The thought of a client dying by suicide can keep even experienced therapists up at night. Moreover, fear of malpractice liability often leads them to practice defensively, resulting in unnecessary hospitalizations that can significantly hurt therapy outcomes. This recording features evidence-based innovations in the assessment, management, and treatment of suicidal risk. Learn new suicide-focused clinical skills, such as how to evaluate different suicidal states and match them with the most effective interventions and treatments in face-to-face work or using telehealth. You’ll discover:

  • How to avoid unnecessary hospitalizations and an over-reliance on medications
  • Effective techniques to help suicidal clients manage states of acute risk through stabilization planning or use of technology and how to use telehealth to effective work with suicide risk
  • Evidence-based approaches to reliably assess, target, and treat clients’ suicidal risk and different suicidal states using frameworks such as Collaborative Assessment Management of Suicidality (CAMS), DBT, and suicide-focused CBT
  • How to use CAMS to differentiate direct vs. indirect patient-defined “drivers” of suicide and how to effectively target and treat drivers to decrease suffering and help save lives

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CPD

PESI Australia, in collaboration with PESI in the USA, offers quality online continuing professional development events from the leaders in the field at a standard recognized by professional associations including psychology, social work, occupational therapy, alcohol and drug professionals, counselling and psychotherapy. On completion of the training, a Professional Development Certificate is issued after the individual has answered and submitted a quiz and course evaluation. This program is worth 3 hours CPD for points calculation by your association.



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David A. Jobes, Ph.D., ABPP, is a Professor of psychology and Associate Director of Clinical Training, and Director of the Suicide Prevention Lab at The Catholic University of America. His research and writing in suicide has produced well over 150 peer-reviewed publications (including six books on clinical suicidology).

 

As an internationally recognized suicidologist, Dr. Jobes is a past President of the American Association of Suicidology (AAS) and is the recipient of that organization’s 1995 “Edwin Shneidman Award” in recognition of early career contribution to suicide research. Dr. Jobes has been named the recipient of the 2012 AAS “Dublin Award” in recognition of career contribution in suicidology. He also received the 2016 “Marsha Linehan Award” from the American Association of Suicidology in recognition of his contributions to research in clinical suicidology. Dr. Jobes has served as a consultant to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, the FBI, the NSA, the National Institute of Mental Health, the Department of Defense, and Veterans Affairs. Dr. Jobes is Fellow of the American Psychological Association in clinical psychology and he is a board certified in clinical psychology (American Board of Professional Psychology). He maintains a private clinical and forensic practice in Washington, DC.


Speaker Disclosure:

Financial: David Jobes is the director of The Catholic University of America Suicide Prevention Lab. He is a professor of psychology at the Catholic University of America. Dr. Jobes receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: David Jobes is a fellow of the American Psychological Association.
 


Objectives

  1. Apply evidence-based assessment approaches that help stratify risk and reliably identify different suicidal states.
  2. Appraise risk-management techniques that help a suicidal client manage states of acute risk.
  3. Apply evidence-based treatments that effectively target and treat different suicidal states.
  4. Assess how to avoid unnecessary hospitalization with suicidal clients, which can hurt therapy outcomes.
  5. Utilize practices that help decrease the risk of suicide-related malpractice liability using face-to-face practice or telehealth.

Outline

  • Apply evidence-based assessment approaches that help stratify risk and reliably identify different suicidal states
  • Assess risk-management techniques that help a suicidal client manage states of acute risk
  • Apply evidence-based treatments that effectively target and treat different suicidal states (both face-to-face and using telehealth)
  • Assess how to avoid unnecessary hospitalization with suicidal clients, which can hurt therapy outcomes
  • Learn practices that help decrease the risk of suicide-related malpractice liability

Target Audience

  • Psychologists
  • Physicians
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Art Therapists
  • Nurses
  • Other Behavioral Health Professionals

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