This training on suicide intervention will explore key fundamentals of suicidality. Gain understanding of risk level and various motivations for the “suicide mode”. Various treatment approaches will be discussed in depth, including CBT, DBT and ACT. Clinicians will be encouraged to examine their current practices around treating suicidality. Attention will be given to exploring the clinician’s emotional burden in treating suicidal clients, and best practices when a client completes suicide or is a survivor of suicide. Case vignettes, video clips and small group exercises will provide members with an opportunity to practice skills individually and as a group.

Objectives:

• Explore fundamentals of suicide, including etiology, risk levels, and motivations.
• Classify and describe various treatment modalities, including CBT, DBT, and ACT.
• Explain and describe the realities of clinician self-management in the context of suicide.
• Describe best practices for managing client suicide completion and survivors of suicide loss.

Presenter:

Diane Bigler, LCSW, LSCSW, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Missouri and Kansas with over 25 years of experience in the mental health field. She has held clinical positions as an outpatient and in-home therapist and clinical supervisor. Diane was an Adjunct Professor of Social Work for 10 years at The University of Kansas, School of Social Welfare and a Field Liaison and Field Instructor. She has also held administrative positions as a program Director and Coordinator. Diane is a frequent local and national trainer on a wide variety of mental health and workplace development topics with clinicians and corporations. Diane is most passionate about providing quality professional development to clinicians, employees, and leaders. For fun, Diane loves to spoil her four Dachshunds and rock out to 80’s music.