Enhance Your Skills and Improve Outcomes with Depressed and Suicidal Clients

The ongoing treatment of the depressed and suicidal client is an enormous clinical challenge. Clinicians often state that they feel well-trained in assessing and intervening when their clients initially have suicidal ideations, but feel at a loss when the client returns for treatment, still depressed, and possibly still suicidal.

Dr. David Pratt has worked with this challenging population for over 35 years and brings his expertise to share practical CBT techniques for clinicians to use with their depressed and suicidal clients. He will help you integrate “Third Wave” CBT Therapies such as Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) with “First and Second Wave” CBT therapies you may already be using. In addition, he will share practical interventions you can use for on-going depression and suicidal ideation, as well as evidence-based treatments for other common co-morbid conditions such as anxiety disorders and PTSD.

“FIRST AND SECOND WAVE” APPROACHES

• Foundations of CBT
• “First Wave” therapies
• “Second Wave” therapies

“FIRST AND SECOND WAVE” CBT TECHNIQUES FOR THE DEPRESSED AND SUICIDAL CLIENT

• Education: The CBT Model and depression
• Mood Monitoring: Developing self-awareness
• Behavioral Activation: Getting active again
• Cognitive Restructuring: Healthy thinking
• Problem Solving: Overcoming “Learned Helplessness”
• Social Skills Training: Essential social skills for relationship development
• Wellness and Depression: Developing a healthy life style to overcome depression
• Using CBT Skills for suicide prevention and safety planning

 “THIRD WAVE” ADVANCES IN CBT FOR THE TREATMENT OF DEPRESSION AND SUICIDE PREVENTION

• Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT): Mindfulness vs. Meditation
• Teaching Mindfulness Skills: Multi-sensory applications
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): The dialectic of acceptance vs. change
• Mindfulness self-monitoring: Enhanced self-awareness
• Mindfulness and Acceptance: Developing tolerance for distressful experiences
• Acceptance vs. Change: Identifying and committing to personal values

EVIDENCE-BASED TREATMENTS FOR COMMON CO-MORBID CONDITIONS

• Anxiety Disorders and Exposure Therapy
• PTSD and “Prolonged Exposure”

INTEGRATING TREATMENT OF DEPRESSION AND CO-MORBID CONDITIONS WITH THE COMPLICATED CLIENT

• Evaluation and case conceptualization
• Prioritizing treatment
• Treatment phases and juxtaposing interventions
• Enhanced skills-based suicide prevention and safety planning