Tight Ropes and Safety Nets: Counselling and Psychotherapy with Suicidal Clients

Trainer: Andrew Reeves

Venue: Manchester

Date : Friday 22nd June 2012

Course Description

Working with suicidal clients can be profoundly stressful, even for the most experienced practitioner. How to work within organisational expectations, managing confidentiality, and responding appropriately to another’s suicidal thoughts all demand thoughtful and ethical practice.

Aims and Objectives

• Policy and Legal Considerations of Working with Suicide

• Working in Organisations and Independent Practice with Suicide Risk

• Risk Factors Associated with Suicide Risk

• The Importance of Personal Responses

• How Suicide Potential Can Present in Sessions

• Integrating Risk Assessment into the Therapeutic Discourse

• Factors that Inform Ethical Decision Making

• Self-Care

About the Trainer

Dr Andrew Reeves is a counsellor, trainer and supervisor at the University of Liverpool Counselling Service. He is also Editor of Counselling and Psychotherapy Research and has written several articles on suicide and self harm. He is co-editor (with Windy Dryden) of Key Issues for Counselling in Action: Second Edition (Sage, 2008), and author of Counselling Suicidal Clients (Sage, 2010). He is a regular contributor to Therapy Today, including editing the Ethical Dilemmas column.