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Treating Suicidal Clients & Self-Harm Behaviors - by Meagan N Houston (Paperback)

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  • 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.
  • About the Author: 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.
  • 234 Pages
  • Psychology, Suicide

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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 behavior. 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



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Dr. Houston has graciously and tirelessly given mental health professionals and their clients a priceless, clinical gift. Irrespective of your clientele, clinical setting or academic training, Treating Suicidal Clients & Self- Harm Behaviors answers questions, details treatment strategies and provides practical tools. Dr. Houston has thoroughly researched the challenges clinicians face with suicidal and self-harming clients, and provides a comprehensive, one-stop resource. Her book identifies and addresses the fears and inadequacies of clinicians, and empowers them to confidently and compassionately work with these challenging clients. The mental health community and the clients we serve will benefit from Dr. Houston s work for years to come. - Verdi R. Lethermon, PhD, Retired Director, HPD Psychological Services Division



Dr. Houston is a consummate professional and presenter, and her years of experience shine in this must-have resource. Working with personality disorders and challenging clients, and managing suicidal issues as well as non-suicidal self-injury on a routine basis, this book will quickly become an indispensable tool. - Daniel J. Fox, PhD, Licensed Psychologist, Award-winning author of Antisocial, Borderline, Narcissistic & Histrionic Workbook



Finally! A hands-on resource which provides practical interventions for the assessment, intervention and management of suicidal and NSSI behavior. Dr. Houston s approach to suicide and NSSI prevention is timely, relevant and culturally sensitive. The level of detail and precision in which this delicate topic is discussed makes it clear why Dr. Houston is an authority on the topic of suicide and NSSI. This gem will benefit neophyte and seasoned clinicians alike! - Jasmine Ross Burton, PhD, Licensed Psychologist, Essence Psychological Health Services




About the Author



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.

Dimensions (Overall): 10.9 Inches (H) x 8.4 Inches (W) x .5 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.1 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 234
Genre: Psychology
Sub-Genre: Suicide
Publisher: PESI Publishing
Format: Paperback
Author: Meagan N Houston
Language: English
Street Date: September 21, 2017
TCIN: 80114331
UPC: 9781683730842
Item Number (DPCI): 247-46-3376
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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