Suicide Awareness, Prevention, and Treatment
The Association for Psychological Therapies (APT) is a leading provider of training for professionals working in mental health and related areas and we offer the following training in suicidality. We can bring any of the courses to your organization (via Zoom or Face to Face where safe to do so) and train a group of 6-15 people for a fixed all-inclusive fee, no matter where you are. This is the only such training that automatically includes APT’s relevant post-course resources and APT-Accreditation.
Suicide Awareness.
A half-day course.
This short course is designed to raise your awareness of the importance of suicide and inform you about some of the key questions. Specifically:
• Why is it important to know about suicide?
• How many people take their own lives?
• What effect does suicide have on friends and family?
• Why do people take their own lives?
• Are there any signs that someone is contemplating suicide?
• If you think someone is contemplating suicide, what can you do about it?
• If you have been affected by someone's suicide, what can you do to help yourself?
• What are the best ways to lead a more rewarding life?
Suicide-Risk Assessment & Management.
A 2-day course.
Every year, thousands of people die by suicide in Canada and worldwide, and we don't respond to it especially well: many people who die by suicide have seen their doctors in the previous week, and many more in the previous year. To intervene better, we need to be able to spot those who are at risk, to manage the risk (do our best to ensure it doesn't happen), and intervene to help people build a rewarding life long-term.
This 2-day course focuses on the first two of those three factors, and is based on APT's acclaimed DICES programme for risk assessment and management. It focuses purely on the risk of suicide, and does so in a client-focused way, designed to help the client from the very first moment of contact. It covers:
1. Risk Assessment
2. Risk Management
3. How to verify and demonstrate you have assessed and managed risk
The course aims also to help us become relaxed and optimistic about seeing suicidal people, because we will know what to do: we will notice them, we will be able to manage their suicidality, we will be able to plan effective treatment.
CBT Plus, for Suicide Prevention.
A 3-day course.
There is more to working with suicidality than risk assessment and management, and having mastered those, we need then to be able to help people to build lives that are much more rewarding. It is unrealistic to think we can create lives that are completely free of suffering, but perfectly realistic to help create lives that are worth suffering for. And this 3-day course strives to achieve just that.
Some professionals become anxious about seeing patients who are suicidal, so what this course aims to do is to help us become relaxed and optimistic about seeing suicidal people, because we will know how to give them hope, and how to deliver as well as possible on that hope.
