Suicide Prevention & Clinical Excellence and Standards of Care

B4 - Managing Your Reactions When Working with Suicidal Clients

Monday, April 11, 2022

4:15 PM – 5:15 PM

Location: Gaylord National, National Harbor 4/5

Workshop Presenter(s)

Sara C. Seidel Beall, MA, NCC, LCMHC

Product Manager, Behavioral Health
Relias
Morrisville, North Carolina

Slides
VK

Vera Kurdian, LCSWC

CEO
Advanced Behavioral Health, Inc - Maryland
FREDERICK, Maryland
CM

Christina McDermott, MHRM

Human Resources Manager
Advanced Behavioral Health, Inc - Maryland

Unfortunately, many clinicians at some point in their career will lose a client to suicide. We will explore emotional reactions clinicians experience when working with acute or chronic suicidality and approaches for managing them and discuss the profound impact of a client’s suicide with approaches to support clinicians who have experienced a client’s death by suicide. Licensed behavioral health clinicians, addiction, behavioral health counseling, marriage and family therapy, psychology, and social work professionals in health and human services settings will benefit from this session.

Learning Objectives:

Describe at least three of the challenges that clinicians commonly face when working with clients who are suicidal.
Evaluate emotional reactions commonly experienced and strategies to cope with those emotions.
Examine ways therapists and clinical supervisors can navigate the significant emotional responses of losing a client to suicide.