2 jours d'évaluation complète du risque de suicide et d'intervention

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Sally Spencer-Thomas, PsyD Séminaires et produits connexes

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Sally Spencer-Thomas, PsyD, est psychologue clinicienne et conférencière internationale. Dr. Spencer-Thomas was moved to work in suicide prevention after her younger brother, a Denver entrepreneur, died of suicide after a difficult battle with bipolar condition.

Le Dr Spencer-Thomas a été invitée à s'exprimer à la Maison Blanche sur les thèmes de la santé mentale et de la prévention du suicide et a occupé des postes de direction au sein de la National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention, de l'International Association for Suicide Prevention, de l'American Association for Suicidology et de la National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. Elle a reçu de nombreux prix pour son leadership, notamment le prix "Survivor of the Year" 2014 de l'American Association of Suicidology, le prix "Impact Honors" 2014 de l'Invisible Disabilities Association, le prix "Alumni Master Scholar" 2012 de l'université de Denver, le prix "Farbarow" 2015 de l'International Association for Suicide Prevention et le prix "Career Achievement Alumni Award" 2016 de la Graduate School of Professional Psychology de l'université de Denver.

Elle est titulaire d'un doctorat en psychologie clinique de l'université de Denver, d'un master en gestion des organisations à but non lucratif de l'université Regis et d'une licence en psychologie et en arts plastiques avec une mineure en économie du Bowdoin College. Elle a écrit quatre livres sur la santé mentale et la prévention de la violence.

Déclarations du conférencier :
Financières : Sally Spencer Thomas a un cabinet privé et reçoit des royalties en tant qu'auteur publié. Elle reçoit des honoraires de conférencière et des redevances d'enregistrement de PESI, Inc. Elle n'a aucune relation financière pertinente avec des organisations inéligibles.
Relations non financières : Sally Spencer Thomas est présidente de United Suicide Survivors International et membre du comité exécutif de l'American Association of Suicidology. Elle est coprésidente du Workplace Special Interest Group de l'International Association of Suicide Prevention et membre de la Suicide Prevention Lifeline.

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Objectifs

1. Describe how to overcome fear and personal bias when working with suicidal clients.
2. Examine the latest hot topics in suicidology and their impact on improved assessment and intervention efforts.
3. Determine the appropriate circumstances for applying upstream, midstream, and downstream approaches to suicide prevention.
4. Explain how to implement earlier identification and triage as valuable components of comprehensive risk assessment and intervention.
5. Choose language that imparts compassion and avoids stigma for use in all stages of work with suicidal clients.
6. Contrast various suicide assessment tools to better inform clinical decision-making.
7. Ascertain key indicators of imminent suicide and develop a strategy for determining when and how to hospitalize clients.
8. Reduce access to lethal means by implementing a multi-systemic approach that incorporates the suicidal person’s social connections into their safety plan.
9. Articulate the “stop, drop, and roll” of suicide prevention effectively to clients so that it can be accessed in crisis situations.
10. Employ a collaborative safety approach to help clients survive a suicidal crisis while avoiding the pitfalls of suicide contracting.
11. Utilize measurements of post-traumatic growth to assess clients’ progress in adapting more healthy response mechanisms.
12. Make sense of the unique nature of suicide grief to improve the clinical options offered in response to it.

Aperçu

OVERCOME BIAS AND FEAR

Prepare to do suicide work with compassion and confidence

• Self-Reflection: Time to unpack our own baggage
• Countertransference
• Our own history with suicide

HOT TOPICS IN SUICIDOLOGY

Evaluate the latest developments and their impact on assessment and intervention

• The latest data, and what to do with it
• Mental health and suicide
• Alcohol and suicide
• Opioids and suicide
• Additional forms of trauma and suicide
• Aspiring to Zero Suicide
• Why “Means Matter”
• Understanding the many forms of the suicidal mind
• Soul exhaustion

COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH TO SUICIDE RISK ASSESSMENT & TREATMENT

Determine where to enter the prevention stream, and how to navigate successfully

• Upstream, midstream, and downstream approaches
• Build resilience and crisis inoculation
• Earlier identification and triage
• Soins tenant compte des traumatismes
• Learn from the experiences of suicide attempt and loss survivors

RISK ASSESSMENT

Elicit key information from clients

• The many paths to suicide
• Communicate caring: Language to impart compassion and avoid stigma
• Évaluation du risque de suicide
  • SAFE-T
  • IS PATH WARM
  • Idée, plan, moyen, intention
  • Niveau de risque
• Standardized assessment tools to augment clinical judgment
• Obtaining collateral information
• Types of questions to uncover suicidal ideation
  • What if they say “No”?
  • What if they say “Yes”?
• Behavior chain analysis
• Why “No Suicide” contracts are dead
• Best practices in risk assessment

COLLABORATIVE SAFETY AGREEMENTS AND WELLNESS PLANNING

Help clients regulate emotions and feel safe, valued and connected

• Set up a safety agreement that is more likely to be followed
• Reduce access to lethal means (C.A.L.M.)
• The “Stop, Drop, and Roll” of suicide safety planning
• Treatment strategies built on preserving choice and dignity
  • Thérapie cognitivo-comportementale
  • Thérapie comportementale dialectique
  • Plans de prévention des rechutes
  • Quand et comment hospitaliser

MAKING MEANING

Help clients reinvest in a life worth living

• The PIE of life – brainstorm possibilities of growth
• Narrative psychology and the power of storytelling
• Cultivate social connection and re-engagement
• Choice and perspective
• Foster gratitude and a spirit of contentment after loss
• Measurements of post-traumatic growth

SAFE AND EFFECTIVE SUICIDE GRIEF & TRAUMA RESPONSE

Implement suicide grief and trauma support

• Comprendre la nature unique du deuil par suicide
• Peer-based support: Connect clients to other survivors of loss
• Access and reclaim compassion

Public cible

• Travailleurs sociaux
• Psychologues
• Psychiatres
• Conseillers
• Thérapeutes conjugaux et familiaux
• Gestionnaires de cas
• Conseillers en toxicomanie
• Thérapeutes
• Infirmières
• Autres professionnels de la santé mentale
• Conseillers scolaires
• Psychologues en milieu scolaire
• Travailleurs sociaux en milieu scolaire
• Administrateurs scolaires

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