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Assessment and Intervention with Suicidal Clients: 3-Video Series

Assessment and Intervention with Suicidal Clients: 3-Video Series

Suicide challenges even the most seasoned mental health professional. In this richly instructive and deeply moving three-volume series, John Sommers-Flanagan and colleagues demonstrate invaluable assessment and treatment skills for working with diverse clients along the spectrum of suicidality.
Working Online with Suicidal Clients in the Age of COVID

Working Online with Suicidal Clients in the Age of COVID

with John Sommers-Flanagan
How has the rapid shift to online therapy affected the way we work with suicidal clients? Victor Yalom and John Sommers-Flanagan discuss how to effectively engage, assess and monitor suicidal clients in the age of online therapy and the impact that COVID has had on suicidality.
Using a Mood Scale for Suicide Assessment

Using a Mood Scale for Suicide Assessment

with John Sommers-Flanagan
Discover how incorporating a simple but powerful mood scale will advance your competence and confidence working with suicidal clients, and can open the door to rich, meaningful conversations about suicide.
Safety Planning with Suicidal Clients

Safety Planning with Suicidal Clients

with John Sommers-Flanagan
Learn skills for building an effective safety plan with your suicidal clients that includes the creation of a safe environment, recognizing warning signs, identifying peer and community resources, and choosing an alternative environment.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy Techniques for Emotional Dysregulation

Dialectical Behavior Therapy Techniques for Emotional Dysregulation

with Shelley McMain, PhD and Carmen Wiebe
How can you stay centered while supporting clients through periods of extreme reactivity and self-harm? In this video with Drs. Shelley McMain and Carmen Wiebe, learn to apply key tools from Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) to work with emotional dysregulation.
Earn 1.00 CE Credits
DBT with Suicidal Clients: 2-Video Series

DBT with Suicidal Clients: 2-Video Series

When a suicidal client is sitting across from you, how do you assess risk, negotiate no-harm agreements, and manage borderline reactivity while keeping your seat? In these riveting live demonstrations with DBT originator Marsha Linehan, learn essential strategies for working with distressed clients.
Earn 3.00 CE Credits
CBT for Personality Disorders

CBT for Personality Disorders

with Arthur Freeman
In this final installment of our comprehensive Three Approaches to Personality Disorders video series, watch renowned CBT expert Art Freeman assess cognitive schemas and set concrete therapeutic goals for Alfred, a challenging client who demonstrates significant Axis II issues and suicidal inclinations after being left by his girlfriend.
Earn 2.50 CE Credits
Coping with the Suicide of a Loved One: An REBT Approach

Coping with the Suicide of a Loved One: An REBT Approach

with Albert Ellis
Learn to use Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) from the man who developed the method in a therapy session with Roseanne, whose husband committed suicide in front of her and her baby daughter ten years ago. 
Suicide & Self-Harm: Helping People at Risk

Suicide & Self-Harm: Helping People at Risk

with Linda Gask
Learn the critical skills necessary for assessing and helping suicidal clients in this excellent video.
Skills in Youth Suicide Prevention

Skills in Youth Suicide Prevention

with Iris Educational Media
This excellent training tool is a must-see for clinicians and non-clinicians alike who deal with students every day, providing step-by-step strategies and clear instructions to address suicidal behavior in teens.
Assessment & Psychological Treatment of Bipolar Disorder

Assessment & Psychological Treatment of Bipolar Disorder

with Kay Redfield Jamison
Watch Kay Redfield Jamison, bestselling author of An Unquiet Mind and international expert on bipolar disorder, in this informative and intriguing interview that presents essential information on assessment and treatment of bipolar disorder in psychotherapy.
Earn 1.00 CE Credits
Thomas Szasz on The Myth of Mental Illness

Thomas Szasz on The Myth of Mental Illness

with Thomas Szasz
Psychiatrist and social critic Thomas Szasz unsettled the psychiatric establishment in the 1960’s, challenging its foundational notions around normalcy, mental illness and treatment. By watching this pair of riveting interviews, Dr. Szasz will challenge you to explore and question your own cherished beliefs around diagnosis, psychotherapy and freedom; deepening your empathy for even the most challenging clients.
Understanding and Preventing Suicide

Understanding and Preventing Suicide

with The Glendon Association
A powerful psychoeducation video for public presentations and training events featuring leading experts as well as survivors of serious suicide attempts.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy with Suicidal Clients Vol. 1

Dialectical Behavior Therapy with Suicidal Clients Vol. 1

with Marsha Linehan
Prepare to be riveted by these live demonstrations with DBT originator Marsha Linehan. From assessing suicidality to negotiating no-harm agreements to maintaining a grounded stance, the formidable clinician offers effective strategies for working with distressed borderline clients.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy with Suicidal Clients Vol. 2

Dialectical Behavior Therapy with Suicidal Clients Vol. 2

with Marsha Linehan
Prepare to be enthralled in these riveting live demonstrations with Dr. Marsha Linehan, creator of Dialectical Behavior Therapy. From assessing negotiating no-harm agreements to conducting a chain analysis and problem solving techniques, you’ll pick up compelling strategies for working with suicidal, borderline and emotionally dysregulated clients.
Voices of Suicide: Learning from Those who Lived

Voices of Suicide: Learning from Those who Lived

with The Glendon Association
Learn from three people that made highly lethal suicide attempts and survived, as they courageously share their stories of self-destructiveness, survival, and recovery. They reveal intimate details of their life histories that contributed to their attempts.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy

Dialectical Behavior Therapy

with Marsha Linehan
Watch Marsha Linehan, founder of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), in action in this session with a middle-aged man with a significant personality disorder struggling with suicidal depression and anger after being left by his girlfriend. 
Earn 1.75 CE Credits
Assessment and Intervention with Suicidal Clients Volume 3

Assessment and Intervention with Suicidal Clients Volume 3

with John Sommers-Flanagan
In this, the third in an absorbing three-volume series, John Sommers-Flanagan and colleagues teach you to effectively assess and intervene with suicidal clients of varying beliefs, cultures and worldviews. He works with a suicidal gay male, and supplemental expert interviews discuss suicide in Asian-American and other cultures and coping strategies for families that have lost a loved one to suicide.
Earn 2.00 CE Credits
Assessment and Intervention with Suicidal Clients Volume 1

Assessment and Intervention with Suicidal Clients Volume 1

with John Sommers-Flanagan
The suicidal client is perhaps the single greatest clinical and ethical challenge for even the most seasoned mental health professional. In this, the first of a compelling three-volume series, John Sommers-Flanagan artfully teaches through live clinical demonstration how to effectively and collaboratively assess and intervene when sitting face-to-face with suicidal clients. In this video he works with a divorced mother suffering from depression, and a 22-year-old college student and veteran of the Iraq war who is struggling with family issues and alcohol use.
Earn 3.50 CE Credits
Assessment and Intervention with Suicidal Clients Volume 2

Assessment and Intervention with Suicidal Clients Volume 2

with John Sommers-Flanagan
In this, the second of a captivating three-volume series, John Sommers-Flanagan masterfully teaches us through live clinical demonstration how to effectively and collaboratively assess and intervene with suicidal clients at different phases of life. First he works with a 15-year-old experiencing stress from her parents’ marital conflict, then a middle aged woman who recently lost her husband to illness, and finally an intensely suicidal 40-year-old.
Earn 2.00 CE Credits
Mental Health in Hospitals and Treatment Centers: 5-Video Series

Mental Health in Hospitals and Treatment Centers: 5-Video Series

What are the most essential skills and techniques for succeeding with patients in hospitals and treatment centers? Discover the difference between novice unskilled and expert work care for a range of severe conditions in this 5-part video series.
Clinical Interviewing: Intake, Assessment & Therapeutic Alliance

Clinical Interviewing: Intake, Assessment & Therapeutic Alliance

with John Sommers-Flanagan, PhD & Rita Sommers-Flanagan, PhD
How do you do an assessment, collect historical data, develop a treatment plan and create a warm working alliance with clients all in the first session? Learn from experts John and Rita Sommers-Flanagan how to quickly create the foundation for a successful therapy and engage clients collaboratively in the treatment process.
Earn 2.00 CE Credits
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

with Otto Kernberg
Preeminent psychoanalyst Otto Kernberg doesn’t back down in this series of three diagnostic Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP) sessions with a paranoid client struggling with suicidal depression after being left by his girlfriend.

Earn 4.25 CE Credits
Managing Depression

Managing Depression

with Brad Hagen
What are the most essential skills and techniques for working with severely depressed patients? Find out what to do—and what not to do—in this two-part demonstration of a mental health practitioner interviewing a suicidally depressed hospital patient.