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Suicide Threats: Manipulative or Serious?
Dangerous predictions
Program Description
Being able to assess suicidal risk is probably the most important single thing therapists need to be able to do. The alarming reality is any therapist involved in direct patient care is likely to have this experience. Here we tackle the topic of manipulative suicide threats. How do we know when the patient is serious? We'd better!
Learning Objectives
This program provides clinicians with the opportunity to:
Be able to recognize the role of depression as a cause of adolescent and adult suicide.
Understand the role of relationships as a factor in assessing and preventing suicide.
Translate these understandings into practical treatment considerations.
Learn to elicit suicide ideation, behavior, and plans.
Be able to make a clinical judgment of the risk that a client will attempt or complete suicide in the short- and long-term.
Interviews
Manipulative Suicide Threats - Robert Yufit, Ph.D.
Suicide and death pose significant challenges for loved ones and survivors. Assessing suicide talk is one of the most anxiety-ridden tasks of psychotherapy because we can't afford to be wrong. Plus, the bereaved's intense grief can be overwhelming to their loved ones and even the therapist.
Suicide Threats: Manipulative? - Robert Yufit, Ph.D.
Being able to assess suicidal risk is probably the most important single thing therapists need to be able to do. The alarming reality is any therapist involved in direct patient care is likely to have this experience. Here we tackle the topic of manipulative suicide threats. How do we know when the patient is serious? We'd better!
“I found this a very helpful format and nice, leisurely pace of learning. I would welcome continuing the series.”
... Tina O.
LCSW