MEETING THE SUICIDAL CLIENT
2-day workshop – 12 CPD points
Facilitators: Athol Henwick, Chris Maskens, and Gitti Maas
Bookings:
https://buytickets.at/thesuicidalclient/844423
Day one will be based around some didactic and experiential learning in which perspectives on suicide are presented and examined. Participants will be encouraged to engage with novel ways of thinking and viewing their suicidal clients..
Day two will look to the application of different interventions in helping to bring the client to a place of self-discovery as a valuable and unique human being.
Traditional medical/psychiatric models approach the problem of suicidality from a variety of theoretical perspectives: biological, cognitive, psychodynamic, etc. However, practical interventions based on these theories often fail. Many suicidal persons admit to years of counselling and medication. They say they will feel better for awhile but then feel even more suicidal the next time they are in crisis. What this indicates is that an underlying problem keeps changing form, but never changes.
Course participants will be introduced to the unique context and metaphoric language of the suicidal person that CCT has discovered. They will leave knowing a new way to conceptualise the phenomenology of the suicidal state and will learn a counterintuitive way to be able to communicate with the suicidal person, to be able to “reach” them from inside of their own experience .
Participants will learn how the suicidal crisis is, at its core level, a crisis of identity and how it can be turned into an opportunity for transformation towards authentic selfhood.
Disclaimer: While every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of the information provided on the IACP website event calendar, the IACP cannot accept any responsibility or liability for information provided by outside organisations.
This website uses strictly necessary session cookies only. Session cookies are requred to ensure members can access the members area and associated functions reliably. Session cookies expire automatically upon exit.