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Digital Seminar

Suicide Intervention Skills Training: Maximizing Preparedness and Best Practices for a Calm and Confident Response to Clients in Crisis

Maximizing Preparedness and Best Practices for a Calm and Confident Response to Clients in Crisis

Speaker:
Paul Brasler, LCSW, CAIMHP
Duration:
Approx 6 hrs
Language:
Presented in EN
Copyright:
Oct 22, 2025
Product Code:
POS150400
Media Type:
Digital Seminar - Also available: Live Webinar


Description

Even after years of schooling, clinical work, and supervision, treating suicidal clients can feel overwhelming and to be honest – downright scary.

There isn’t any room for error in cases like these and you want to be sure you’re doing the right things for your clients, including avoiding unnecessary hospitalization.

It’s time to leave uncertainty by the wayside and let Paul Brasler, LCSW, CAIMHP take the guesswork out of treating suicidality! Drawing from Paul’s 20+ years of clinical experience, his multi-modality approach will give you the fortitude and tools you need to take on even the most challenging cases – in as little as just one training session!

You’ll get:

  • The best treatment techniques from CBT, DBT, and CAMS!
  • Assurance in establishing safe practices and limiting liability
  • Powerful screening and assessment tools that emphasize connection and setting
  • Strategies for working with children, veterans, first responders and more!

No matter where you’re at in your journey as a clinician, you deserve to feel cool, calm, and confident when these tough cases land at your door.

This is your chance to set yourself apart from the status quo of suicidality treatment and give your clients your very best, even when they feel at their very worst.

Register now!

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Program Information

Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.



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**Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of your profession. As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your professions standards.



Speaker

Paul Brasler, LCSW, CAIMHP's Profile

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Paul Brasler, LCSW, CAIMHP, became a licensed clinical social worker in 2002. Paul is the coordinator for the Chesterfield County (Virginia) Employee Behavioral Health Program, through which he and his team provide clinical services to first responders and human services personnel. He has extensive experience working with people in crisis and people living with substance use disorders, including adolescent residential treatment, community mental health settings, hospital emergency departments, juvenile drug court, and private practice.

Paul has been a national presenter (through PESI) since 2016, and he has presented classes across the country on mental health emergencies, high-risk clients, resiliency, and a certification course for clinicians working with people with substance use disorders. He has written three books: The Clinician’s Guide to Suicide Management, PESI Publishing, 2025; The Clinician’s Guide to Substance Use Disorder, PESI Publishing, 2022; and High-Risk Clients, PESI Publishing, 2019. Paul lives in Richmond, Virginia, with his beautiful wife, three sons, cowardly dog, and two dwarf rabbits who are quietly plotting to destroy the world.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Paul Brasler maintains a private practice and has an employment relationship with Chesterfield County. He receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Paul Brasler has no relevant non-financial relationships.


Additional Info

Program Information

Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)

Access never expires for this product.


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Objectives

  1. Evaluate the myths, language, and stigma surrounding suicide to inform clinical treatment interventions.
  2. Analyze risk and protective factors associated with suicide to enhance treatment outcomes.
  3. Use screening and assessment tools to guide clinical decision-making.
  4. Utilize collaborative safety planning and crisis interventions, including CAMS, to reduce suicidal behaviors.
  5. Choose dialectical behavior therapy strategies to treat suicidality.
  6. Examine ethical and legal considerations, including informed consent and a client’s right to self-determination, to reduce liability in clinical care.

Outline

Suicide Defined

  • Language and the Stigma of Suicide
  • Myths of Suicide
  • Theoretical Basis of Suicide

Professional Self-Care

  • Establish Safe Practices
  • The Importance of Informed Consent to Treatment
  • Dealing with the Death of a Patient by Suicide
  • Patients Who Conceal Their Suicidal Ideation

Suicide Risk Factors

Protective Factors Against Suicide

Suicide Ideation to Action

  • Suicide Warning Signs
  • Suicide Ideation to Action Theories
  • Suicide Intent (Planning) and Methods
  • Means Safety
  • Suicide Attempts
  • Non-Suicidal Self-Injury

Suicide Screening and Assessment

  • Suicide Screening Tools
  • Suicide Assessment

Disposition

  • Psychiatric Hospitalization
  • Why No Harm Contracts are an Incredibly Bad Idea
  • Safety Planning
  • Collaborative Assessment for Management of Suicidality (CAMS)

Cognitive Behavioral Therapies

  • Brief Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Suicide Prevention
  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy
  • Psychopharmacology of Suicide Treatment

Special Populations

  • Suicide Assessment and Interventions for Children and Adolescents
  • Suicide and Active-Duty Military Personnel, Veterans, and First Responders
  • Suicide and Older Adults

Ethical and Legal Issues

  • A Client’s Right to Self-Determination Versus Our Legal Responsibilities
  • Managing Liability
  • Risks, Limitations & Further Research

Target Audience

  • Mental health Counselors
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Clinical Social Workers
  • Substance Use Treatment Providers
  • Case Managers
  • Psychologists
  • Psychiatrists
  • Pharmacists
  • Medical Physicians
  • Physician Assistants
  • Nurse Practitioners
  • Registered Nurses (general, education, ambulatory care, psychiatric, critical care, community/public health, management/administration)
  • Probation/Parole Officers
  • Judges
  • Police Officers
  • Paramedics and Other First Responders
  • Clergy
  • Chaplains
  • Military Religious Affairs
  • Teachers
  • School Administrators (Primary, Secondary, and University)
  • Concerned Parents

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