Hope as a Skill: A New Approach to Understanding and Managing Suicide Risk

This workshop reviews an empirically supported cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) model for the assessment and clinical management of suicide risk, with hope as a core construct. The importance of facilitating hope across all assessment, clinical management, and treatment domains is discussed. A distinction is made between acute and chronic risk. Additionally, critical elements differentiating moderate and high risk is reviewed, with detailed case examples provided and eventual clinical disposition. A range of effective clinical strategies are reviewed, including reasons for living, commitment to treatment statement, survival kit, along with a range of approaches to emotion regulation.

Original webinar date: April 17, 2020

• Use an empirically supported CBT model for both understanding and clinically managing suicide risk.
• Acquire a range of empirically supported clinical strategies for the day to day management of suicidal patients.

M. David Rudd, PhD, ABPP