Praxis Presents
ACT for Suicidal Behavior
Responding with Flexibility and Freedom to Help Clients Pivot Toward Life
Cost: $249 (Professional) or $124.50 (Student) | Location: Online | 8 CE Hours Available
Every Friday from 4-6 PM EST from October 6th to October 27th
ACT for Suicidal Behavior is a live online course that will empower you to bring a different perspective to suicide. You’ll learn how to respond in a way that’s driven by flexibility rather than fear, and how to not only prevent death more effectively, but to also foster engagement in life.
In 4 sessions, you’ll explore a functional contextual perspective of suicidal behavior and how to adapt the ACT approach to maximize your efficacy and bolster a strong therapeutic relationship during treatment.
Drs. Walser, Barnes, and Borges will speak to each of the 6 core ACT processes and how to utilize each in the context of suicide, including how they can inform your approach to standard assessments and safety planning measures. You’ll also engage in exercises to explore your own experience surrounding suicide and see role plays that demonstrate course tools and concepts in action. In the final session, you’ll also join the trainers for a discussion on what to do when a client does take their own life.
Learning Objectives
Identify personal and systemic barriers to working collaboratively with clients to effectively manage suicide risk.
Explain the phenomenon of suicide from a contextual behavioral perspective.
Discuss empirical support for using ACT with clients at risk of suicide.
Create an ACT consistent safety plan to cope during suicidal crises.
Use functional suicide risk assessment for case conceptualization and treatment planning.
Describe how to use creative hopelessness work appropriate for a client at high risk of suicide.
Describe how to help clients clarify and pursue their values in the presence of psychological pain and use committed action work to build vital lives clients will choose to live.
Schedule
Session 1: October 6, 2023, 4 pm-6 pm EDT: Exploring Your Relationship to Suicide & Client’s Considering Suicide; ACT from the Inside Out in the Face of Suicide
Session 2: October 13, 2023, 4 pm-6 pm EDT: Suicide from a Contextual Behavioral Perspective; Safety Planning from an ACT Perspective
Session 3: October 20, 2023, 4 pm-6 pm EDT: Joining with and Inspiring Change in Clients at Risk of Suicide; Engaging Mindfulness Processes to Hold Suicide-Related Psychological Pain
Session 4: October 27, 2023, 4 pm-6 pm EDT: Values Construction & Committed Actions to Build Reasons for Living; What to Do When a Client Takes Their Own Life and Moving Forward
This training is worth 8 CE credit hours if attended live. While we can only provide CE to those who are present – i.e. logged in – for all live sessions, Praxis webinars are recorded for later viewing. Registrants may access these recordings at any time for up to nine months from the conclusion of the training to which they pertain.