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A 3-day course for 6-16 people.
Download printable Microsoft Word information Sheet
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Overview:
Suicide is a terrible phenomenon with around 6,000 people a year in the UK successfully ending their own lives, which is about twice that from road traffic accidents. Around 50% of those people have seen their doctors in the previous week and about 90% in the previous year, so we are not serving our patients well. And it is not just our patients who suffer; for every person who succeeds in suicide there are friends and relatives who will be affected for life, some of whom will go on to end their own lives.
Some professionals want to 'pass the buck', 'cover their back' or whatever other euphemism one wishes to use. So what this course aims to do is to help us positively relish the prospect of seeing people who are suicidal, because we will know what to do: we will notice them, we will be able to manage their suicidality, we will be able to give them hope, and we will be able to deliver on that hope. Above all, we will know that we are working in a crucially important area, and, moreover, doing excellent work in it.
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Course Aims:
• To illustrate how there can be no better way to spend our professional time than
to help people who are so distressed that they are thinking of ending their lives.
• To change the perception of suicide as something that appears worrisome to
something that is a clear opportunity to make a great impact.
• To be able to 'spot' people who are at risk of suicide and to engage with them.
• To know how professionals can be 'set up' as a focus for hope, and how
dangerous it can be if this hope is thwarted.
• To be able to manage suicide risk. That is, to keep the person safe while effective
treatment is provided.
• To provide a simple non-intrusive measure of progress while at the same time
monitoring risk.
• To be aware of 'false dawns' and how dangerous they can be.
• To be able to enjoy the rewards – and handle the stresses - of working with
suicide.
• Above all, the aim of this course is to show how to help a suicidal person to
build a life that they can see is genuinely worth living. To cover all aspects –
behavioural, biological, environmental, social and cognitive – so that the person
is left with a robust and rewarding life that can withstand substantial "knocks"
and still remain solid.
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Course Content:
• Risk Assessment 1, fixed factors: what are the fixed, immutable factors that are
predictive of suicide and, if they are fixed, how can we utilise them?
• Risk Assessment 2, fluid factors: what are the fluid factors that are predictive of
suicide and how do we capitalise on their fluidity?
• Video-presented case-study: is this person at risk of suicide? If so why? If not
why not?
• Risk Management: How to keep the person safe while you give proper
treatment to provide a long term solution. The weakness of a formal contract
and the effectiveness of an informal contract.
• The yardstick – what makes for a service that is good, effective and ethical?
• Key personality factors for the therapist: Persistence, Optimism and more. What
to do if you only sometimes possess these factors.
• How to give hope for the future: the key ingredient that makes the difference
between giving believable hope and unbelievable hope.
• What makes a Life Worth Living? What research tells us are the five prevailing
factors that lead to happiness.
• Idiosyncratic factors: not everyone fits in with the blanket factors that research
tells us about. How to seek out the factors specific to your patient, and to work
with them in a proper, evidence-based way.
• A systematic 5-factor approach to assessing, planning and delivering the
intervention.
• The 'damaged' individual – the person who feels that, because of what has
happened to them, there can never be any hope for their future.
• The patient who says 'There's just nothing to live for' and yet won't work
towards improving their life.
• The reckless suicide: the person who killed themselves yet professionals say
'he didn't really mean to do it'.
• Dealing with Loss, 1: the case of the banker who ended his life because he
was down to his last £5million. Universal principles.
• Dealing with Loss, 2: the case of the man who is suicidal 15 years after his
wife left him. Universal principles.
• What to do about recurring thoughts of shame, guilt and embarrassment.
• Difficult cases: where you can see that maybe it makes sense to consider
suicide.
• "He surely didn't kill himself because he'd run out of toothpaste?" What to
do about 'the last straw phenomenon'.
• Avoiding the potholes, 1: working with people who are just too lethargic to
end their lives – until your intervention increases their energy levels.
• Avoiding the potholes, 2: the patient who is suddenly much more cheerful –
because they've made up their mind to 'end their misery'.
• Beyond 'no longer a suicide risk' – making life well worth living, and
ensuring it stays that way.
• Working with suicide is exciting, fascinating, and immensely rewarding, yet it
can also be stressful. How to manage that stress.
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Who should attend?
All professionals who sometimes see people who may be at risk of suicide, whether in residential facilities, outpatient facilities or in the community.
Note: the age of the people you see is immaterial, it is a fallacy that it is 'mainly young men' who take their own lives. Suicide is one of the top causes of death in young men because other illnesses are less prevalent at that age. Suicide itself however continues, only slightly abated, through the years.
Equally on gender, although some people make the point that three times as many men than women end their own lives in the UK, it is still the case that 1,500 women do so every year, a substantial figure.
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Course gains:
• You will see that there can be no better way to spend your professional time
than to help people who are so distressed that they are thinking of ending their
lives. You will see a clear opportunity to make a great impact.
• You will be able to 'spot' people who are at risk of suicide and to engage
with them.
• You will know how you may have been 'set up' as a focus for hope, and
how dangerous it can be if this hope is thwarted.
• You will be able to manage suicide risk - to keep the person safe while
you provide effective treatment.
• You will be able to measure progress in a simple, non-intrusive way, while
at the same time monitoring risk. You will feel the reassurance given by this.
• You will be able to spot 'false dawns' and know how to avoid the dangers
they pose.
• You will be able to enjoy handling the stresses - and enjoy the rewards – of
working with suicide.
• Above all, you will be able to help suicidal people to build a life that they can
see is genuinely worth living. You will be able to cover all aspects –
behavioural, biological, environmental, social and cognitive – so that the
person is left with a robust and rewarding life that can withstand substantial
'knocks' and still remain solid.
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How to Attend:
We bring the course to you for a fixed all inclusive fee, no matter where you are. All you do is to provide a good training room, any refreshments you want, and the delegates. We do everything else: the course, the tutor’s fees and expenses, registration and certification, feedback (returned to you), etc, for a fixed fee of £4,165 plus VAT for a maximum of 16 delegates.
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Download printable Microsoft Word information Sheet
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A 3-day course for 6-16 people.
We bring the training to you for an all-inclusive fee of £4,165 plus VAT.
We are happy to provide our courses anywhere in the world for the standard UK fee plus the cost of one business class return airfare from the UK to the location of the course.
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