DBT with Suicidal Clients - New DVD with an Introductory Offer!

Borderline, suicidal, and self-harming clients are some of the most challenging populations therapists face.

Regardless of our level of clinical expertise, it is crucial to master risk assessment, working with ambivalence, and managing reactivity—all whilst staying centred ourselves!

We can all use support with these issues, and the venerable Dialectical Behaviour Therapy creator Marsha Linehan certainly delivers with this powerful two-video set. In this “grand rounds” offering, Ms Linehan demonstrates key interventions of the approach in the context of a live re-enactment of therapy with a suicidal client. You’ll watch the pair connect, tussle, and ultimately negotiate their way through a high-risk situation.

DBT with Suicidal Clients is vital for anyone who deals with suicidal and self-harming or self- destructive clients.  This new 2 DVD box set comes with 3 CPD hours and today we are offering a huge £10 off the set!

http://www.psychotherapydvds.com/DBT-with-Suicidal-Clients

Marsha Linehan, PhD, is a Professor of Psychology and adjunct Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences at the University of Washington. She is Director of the Behavioural Research and Therapy Clinics, a consortium of research projects developing new treatments and evaluating their efficacy for severely disordered and multi-diagnostic and suicidal populations. Her primary research is in the application of behavioural models to suicidal behaviours, drug abuse, and borderline personality disorder. She is also working to develop effective models for transferring science-based treatments to the clinical community.

Marsha is the developer of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, a treatment originally developed for the treatment of suicidal behaviours and since expanded to treatment of borderline personality disorder and other severe and complex mental disorders, particularly those that involve serious emotion dysregulation.

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Best wishes

What makes a nation suicidal ?

A list of the top nations in the world for suicide rates doesn't make for pleasant bedtime reading. However, as a source of ideas for explaining why people kill themselves (and thus what can be done to prevent it), it is an interesting source of data.

So....what do you think are the factors that are most likely to lead a country to be vulnerable to high suicide rates? Poor social welfare systems ? A poor sense of community or togetherness, maybe its poor mental health services ?

In the industrialised world who do you think scores highest ? The USA ? Many of you may think this is a trick question and answer "the Scandanavian countries". Maybe you think its the UK ?
Well...you would all be wrong and infact, as far as the UK is concerned, it has the lowest suicide rate of all the countries in Western Europe...

The latest edition of The Economist (10 Ocober 2009) has just published OECD data on this question, that begs more questions than it answers. Infact the country with the highest rate is Japan ( a country defined by its sense of community and public services, though arguably with a social tradition of suicide). However, most striking (in position number 3) is France - which has a suicide rate that is TWICE that of the UK and 40% higher than Germany.

The Economist offers explanations which I personally do not find credible - such as a restrictive employment policy that creates meaningless jobs. However, it is a fascinating question as to why a country that prides iteself on quality of life and the value of community should have so may people who want to kill themselves ?

I would like to explore this further at my next block of workshops on Suicide and Self Harm ( http://www.skillsdevelopment.co.uk/seminars.php?courseid=6 ) . Id be fascinated by your tho0ughts and theories on this (whether at the workshop or here on this blog). Let me know what you think.

Take care

Paul

Paul Grantham
Consultant Clinical Psychologist