Working with Suicidal Clients  

Since 2014, mental health professionals and others licensed in the State of Washington* are required to complete up to six hours of training in suicide assessment, treatment, and management based on the Matt Adler Suicide Assessment, Treatment & Management Act.

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The law requires all mental health professionals to have completed the training by the end of their first full CEU cycle after January 1, 2014.  If your first full CEU reporting cycle is due this calendar year, you must compete this training by your reporting date, usually your birthday.

Developed and taught by experienced practitioners, this six-hour workshop is designed for those who address suicide in diverse clinical settings from emergency assessment to long-term psychotherapy. Topics include:

• Managing personal responses
• Establishing a therapeutic alliance
• Creating a framework for conceptualizing suicide
• Conducting and documenting a risk assessment
• Crisis planning and ongoing monitoring
• Treatment planning
• Long-term work with suicidal clients 
• Responding to completed suicide

Learn about the Matt Adler Act, the instructors, and more at the event page on the Wellspring website:

www.wellspringfs.org

Pre-registration required. AAPCSW, NWAPS, WSSCSW, or SPSI members may attend at a discount using the Promo Code provided by your organization. Discounts may be taken only during the registration process and cannot be given retroactively. Contact your professional organization to obtain your Promo Code.

* While the law requires 6 hours of training every 6 years for LICSWs, LMFTs, LMHCs and psychologists, the law was expanded in 2015 to include all health care professionals, requiring them to receive the training at least one time in their careers. We welcome and can provide CEU, CPE or CME for psychiatrists as well as psychologists, CDPs, and other health care professionals, including primary care physicians interested in learning more about working with suicidal clients.

Wellspring thanks our Workshop Co-Sponsors:

American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work, Northwest Alliance for Psychoanalytic Study, Seattle Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, and Washington State Society for Clinical Social Work.