High Risk Clients: Effective Clinical Interventions for Client Emergencies Related to Suicide, Substance Abuse Disorder, Violence & More
Credit Available - See CEUs tab below.
- Categories:
- Suicide and Self-Harm | Trauma and PTSD
- Faculty:
- Paul Brasler, LCSW, CAIP
- Duration:
- 6 Hours 20 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 15, 2022
- SKU:
- POS049335
- Media Type:
- Online Learning
Description
Crises are never scheduled, convenient or easy. But they do happen and you will face them. Clients at risk for crisis often present with so many symptoms and issues, it’s hard to know where to start. Many clinicians, anxious about how to proceed, often miss or avoid asking the right questions to effectively intervene and keep clients (and themselves) safe.
As a clinician, have you ever felt:
- Worried about the safety of your clients, even feared for their lives, but felt unprepared to handle the situation?
- Unsafe in the clinical environment, or unsure of how to handle situations where someone connected to your client might be in danger?
- Caught off guard when you’re wrapping up a session and a client discloses suicidal thoughts?
- Unsure if a client was using drugs, and ill equipped to identify the signs and symptoms of drug abuse?
- Concerned that you’re doing more harm than good for traumatized clients, despite your best intentions?
Watch Paul Brasler, LCSW, as he navigates you through five of the most difficult scenarios in mental health today. Through real-life examples and live role plays, Paul will share the concrete strategies that he’s used over the last two decades to safely and effectively intervene in the challenging, urgent, and sometimes alarming situations that mental health professionals face.
Full of practical tools and tips, this live webcast will teach you to how to make crises situations more manageable, overcome your worries, and improve your readiness to handle mental health emergencies related to suicide, violence, substance abuse, trauma, and medical issues.
Better still, instruction on professional liability management techniques, tips for documentation, and detailed reproducible assessment forms will have you feeling confident that you can focus on doing what’s best for your clients without fear of litigation. And, Paul’s guidance is applicable to your work regardless of your setting or clinical background.
Leave this seminar equipped to help your most vulnerable clients with the real-life skills and knowledge they don’t teach in graduate school!
CEUs
This course is available for 6.25 total CPDs.
The HPCSA has declared that any on-line courses CPD/CEU credited by a certified US board, is automatically CPD/CEU credited in South Africa.
As there are different boards for different disciplines, we at Acacia suggest that you use the Counselling CPD/CEU credits. These correspond to South African credits of one CPD/CEU per 60 minutes. If you choose to use your discipline's credits, please do so at your discretion.
PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling. Provider Number 50-399. This self-study course qualifies for 6.25 continuing education credits.
Handouts
| File type | File name | Number of pages | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manual - High Risk Clients (17.9 MB) | 167 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - High Risk Clients - French (17.9 MB) | 167 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - High Risk Clients - Italian (17.9 MB) | 167 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Faculty
Paul Brasler, LCSW, CAIP Related seminars and products
Paul Brasler, LCSW, CAIP, has been a licensed clinical social worker for over 20 years. He is the owner of Providence Consulting & Education, LLC, through which he provides clinical supervision and professional education services. Additionally, Paul provides Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy and other clinical services as part of a small practice. Paul has extensive experience in 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 PESI national presenter 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 two books: The Clinician’s Guide to Substance Use Disorders: Practical Tools for Assessment, Treatment & Recovery (PESI Publishing, October 2022) and High-Risk Clients: Evidence-Based Assessment & Clinical Tools to Recognize and Effectively Respond to Mental Health Crises (PESI Publishing, 2019).
Paul has been a PESI national presenter 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. His second book, The Clinician’s Guide to Substance Use Disorders: Practical Tools for Assessment, Treatment & Recovery, PESI Publishing, was published in October 2022. Paul lives in Richmond, Virginia, with his beautiful wife, three sons, a 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 Alchemy Wellness. 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.
Objectives
- Complete a comprehensive mental health assessment that encompasses a multitude of clinical concerns including mental status, lethality, substance abuse and trauma.
- Determine when to hospitalize clients struggling with suicidal ideation, substance abuse, medical concerns or violent urges and develop protocols for doing so.
- Provide coping strategies and support to clients presenting with suicidal ideation by helping to create a safety plan in session.
- Assess for risk of client violence towards others and develop strategies to safely intervene as well as effectively carry out the clinician’s duty to protect.
- Determine signs and symptoms of intoxication, withdrawal, or overdose in clients and develop plans for effective intervention.
- Differentiate between medical and psychological presenting concerns as they relate to case conceptualization.
Outline
Client Assessment: Ask the Right Questions- Conduct comprehensive assessments
- Strategies for eliciting the right information
- What to ask yourself as you watch the client
- Can the client provide informed content?
- Limitations of the research & potential risks
- Who is most at risk?
- Implicit & explicit expressions of suicidal ideation & intent
- Lethality assessment to protect client & clinician
- Self-injurious behavior & suicidal ideation
- How to conduct a suicide assessment
- Safety planning for clients with suicidal ideation
- When to hospitalize
- Voluntary vs. involuntary hospitalization
- When clients are not admitted to the hospital
- Dealing with our fears: Clinicians’ safety
- When the clinician is the target
- When others are the target
- De-escalation techniques
- Preventative planning
- When to call 911
- The hospitalization process
- Duty to Protect (formerly Duty to Warn)
- Signs of intoxication
- Imminent risk: Signs & symptoms of overdose
- Identify withdrawal syndromes
- Treatment planning
- Drug basics that clinicians should know
- Need-to-know street names of common drugs
- When and how to refer to a higher level of care
- What could kill the client first?
- Medical emergencies that present with psychological symptoms
- Signs & symptoms of a medical emergency
- Recognize trauma in clients
- Dangers of misdiagnosis & improper treatment
- Strategies for trauma-informed care
- Protect your license with documentation
- Debriefing & supervision
- Address vicarious trauma
- Mitigate compassion fatigue
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Case Managers
- Addiction Counselors
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Psychiatrists
- Nurses
- Nurse Practitioners
- Other Mental Health Providers
- Paramedics
- Police Officers
- Probation/Parole Officers
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