Treating Suicidal Clients & Self-Harm Behaviors: Assessments, Worksheets & Guides for Interventions and Long-Term Care - Softcover

Houston, Dr. Meagan N

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1683730844 ISBN 13: 9781683730842

Publisher: PESI Publishing & Media, 2017

Synopsis

The most comprehensive, practical and user-friendly workbook to help save lives.

Developed from years of working with the most challenging suicidal cases, Dr. Meagan N. Houston has created a workbook to prepare you for all the intricacies that affect clients' choices to live or die.

Treating Suicidal Clients & Self-Harm Behaviors is filled with proven assessments, unique worksheets and action-based methods to help your clients navigate and survive the turbulent periods of their lives where suicidal and/or self-harm behaviors appear to be their primary options to cope. This complete resource also includes underlying etiology, varying life factors, and mental health concerns that influence suicidal and self-destructive behavior. Inside you will find:
- Downloadable assessments, worksheets and guides
- Therapy approaches for Non-Suicidal Self-Injury (NSSI) and suicidal behavior
- Applying crisis management skills, DBT and CBT to treatment
- Ethical and legal issues related to working with suicidal behavior
- Incorporating technology into treatment
- Case examples
- Specific strategies for working with children and adolescents, veterans, military personnel, LGBTQI, and the elderly

About this title

From the Author:

Did you notice the flower on the front cover? It's delicate, looks to be thriving and healthy, but if you look closely, it's not perfect. Subtle changes are happening that can go unseen if we don't remain vigilant. The presence of suicide and self-harm can also be elusive in the same way, lurking, right underneath the surface of what appears to be "normal" and blooming. 
I developed this workbook to assist  anyone working with suicidal clients and self-harm behaviors to recognize these subtle signs.This workbook not only educates the reader on etiology, special populations, technology, social media, DSM 5 diagnostics, current assessments and suicide risk management documentation, but also helps to provide a format and guidelines for the treatment and management of these self-destructive behaviors. 

About the Author:

Meagan N. Houston, PhD, SAP, has been helping to save lives for more than a decade with her work in private practice, federal prisons, skilled nursing facilities, college counseling centers and law enforcement. Dr. Houston is currently employed by the Houston Police Department Psychological Services Division, and maintains a private practice in Houston, Texas. She also provides consultation and training to various agencies across the country on suicidal behavior, suicide risk assessment, self-harm behaviors, social media and contagion.

About this edition

• Publisher: PESI Publishing & Media
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1683730844
• ISBN 13: 9781683730842
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 234