Treating Suicidal Clients & Self-harm Behaviors ― Assessments, Worksheets & Guides for Interventions and Long-term Care

The most comprehensive, practical and user-friendly workbook to help save lives. Developed from years of working with the most challenging suicidal cases, Dr. Meagan N. Houston has created a workbook to prepare you for all the intricacies that affect clients’ choices to live or die. Treating Suicidal Clients & Self-Harm Behaviors is filled with proven assessments, unique worksheets and action-based methods to help your clients navigate and survive the turbulent periods of their lives where suicidal and/or self-harm behaviors appear to be their primary options to cope. This complete resource also includes underlying etiology, varying life factors, and mental health concerns that influence suicidal and self-destructive behaviors. Inside you will find: •Downloadable assessments, worksheets and guides •Therapy approaches for Non-Suicidal Self-Injury (NSSI) and suicidal behavior •Applying crisis management skills, DBT and CBT to treatment •Ethical and legal issues related to working with suicidal behavior •Incorporating technology into treatment •Case examples •Specific strategies for working with children and adolescents, veterans, military personnel, LGBTQI, and the elderly

Meagan N. Houston, PhD, SAP, has been helping to save lives for more than a decade with her work in private practice, federal prisons, skilled nursing facilities, college counseling centers and law enforcement. Dr. Houston is currently employed by the Houston Police Department Psychological Services Division, and maintains a private practice in Houston, Texas. She also provides consultation and training to various agencies across the country on suicidal behavior, suicide risk assessment, self-harm behaviors, social media and contagion.