Approved for 6 EMDRIA Credits
The counseling, psychology, psychotherapy, and social work fields tend to approach suicidality from a strongly quantitative bias (Garvey et. al., Contracting for Safety With Patients: Clinical Practice and Forensic Implications. Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, Vol 37, Issue 3, September 2009). The vast majority of professional literature addressing suicidal ideation and suicidal behavior tend to fall into one of two categories: those presenting single interventions to deter suicide with patients (Contracting for Safety, Safety Planning, Crisis Response Planning, pharmacology, etc.), and those analyzing the former. This demonstrates the prevalence of the western medical model – that is to say, a highly qualitative approach. This same research shows that such approaches are at best uneven, and more consistently, ineffective. This workshop will – in contrast – approach suicidality as a social, subjective, and quantitative experience. This approach is a direct response to the view of trauma, dissociation, and traumatic dissociation as a social disorder, rather than an individual pathology. To this end, this workshop approaches suicidal ideation primarily as an effect of contextual experiences, framed within the experience of social invisibility. This frame does not lend itself to discrete intervention; as stated above, research has shown that it is unreliable at best. Rather, this workshop presents a pragmatic, relational, and active way for attendees to help those suffering suicidality have relief, and sustained relief. Presenters will guide participants in learning how to utilize EMDR and Sensorimotor Therapy interventions in working with this population.
Presenters: Kristen Gidel Kelly, LPCC-S & Will Randle, LISW-S
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