Treating suicidal clients & self-harm behaviors : assessments, worksheets & guides for interventions and long-term care / Meagan N. Houston.

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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 behaviors. 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