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COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course is the culmination of more than a decade of research, exploration, and personal experiences as both a clinician and a client impacted by suicide.
Reviewing and incorporating the best practices from current models of suicide prevention, the Edge of Life Model, (ELM),expands those to add the critical discussion and support the intense experience of the therapist holding the space of pain that a client who is considering ending their life is feeling.
Unlike other procedural-based approaches, ELM is a framework that allows the therapist to address all the essential components of the standard of care while also allowing the therapist to integrate their own clinical orientation in a pragmatic way that addresses the unique needs of each client.
EDUCATIONAL GOALs
- Improve a clinician's ability to build a genuine connection with their clients
- Gain a better understanding of their clients' suffering
- Expand their own capacity to attend to clients who are on the edge of life.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Identify and describe each of the five levels of risk on the Courage to Live Continuum.
- Describe the bio-psycho-social and spiritual components of the Edge of Life Model.
THE COURSE:
1) Starts with an experiential activity that provides clinicians with an opportunity to honestly explore their personal reactions to working with clients sitting on the Edge of Life,
2) Reviews the current state of suicide training in the mental health care field and discusses the deficits that need to be addressed,
3) Presents the phenomenologically grounded Courage to Live Continuum of Risk, an assessment framework that helps clinicians identify their client’s level of risk and understand how their clients can be at different points on the continuum at different points in their life, and the final lecture
4) Introduces the Edge of Life Model, looking at how the client’s expression of suicidality is a manifestation of deep suffering rooted in complex interactions of the Bio/Psycho/Social/Spiritual life space.
OUTLINE
- Opening
- Introduction, State of the Field (10 min)
- Hermeneutics of Generosity (10 min)
- Phenomenology of Suicide (10 min)
- Courage to Live Continuum (30 min)
- Edge of Life Model (30 min)
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Adjourn
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TARGET AUDIENCE
This event is for mental health professionals.
COST
$25 for Chapter Members
$35 for Non-members
$15 for Students
Refund/Cancellation Policy
Please visit our website: www.camft-sandiego.org/grievance
ACCOMODATIONS & GRIEVANCES
Please email the Education Chair at education@camft-sandiego.org
CERTIFICATES
Course Completion certificates will be awarded electronically in exchange for a completed evaluation form. Please make sure the Program Administrator has your correct email.
Course meets the qualifications for 2 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. Partial credit will not be awarded.
Participants must be present for the entire length of the workshop to be awarded credit. Participants will not be given CEU credit if they are more than 15 minutes late and/or do not stay for the entire length of the workshop.
This course is provided by the San Diego Chapter of the California association of marriage and family therapists (Provider #57330) is approved by the California association of marriage and family therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs. San Diego chapter of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists maintains responsibility for the program and all its content.
Please email the CEU Chair at ceuchair@camft-sandiego.org
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