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Digital Seminar

Suicide Intervention Skills Training: Maximizing Preparedness and Best Practices for a Calm and Confident Response to Clients in Crisis

Maximizing Preparedness and Best Practices for a Calm and Confident Response to Clients in Crisis

Speaker:
Paul Brasler, LCSW, CAIMHP
Duration:
6 Hours 23 Minutes
Language:
Presented in EN, subtitles in EN and FR, handouts in EN and FR
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
Oct 22, 2025
Product Code:
POS150400
Media Type:
Digital Seminar - Also available: Live Webinar


Description

Even after years of schooling, clinical work, and supervision, treating suicidal clients can feel overwhelming and to be honest – downright scary.

There isn’t any room for error in cases like these and you want to be sure you’re doing the right things for your clients, including avoiding unnecessary hospitalization.

It’s time to leave uncertainty by the wayside and let Paul Brasler, LCSW, CAIMHP take the guesswork out of treating suicidality! Drawing from Paul’s 20+ years of clinical experience, his multi-modality approach will give you the fortitude and tools you need to take on even the most challenging cases – in as little as just one training session!

You’ll get:

  • The best treatment techniques from CBT, DBT, and CAMS!
  • Assurance in establishing safe practices and limiting liability
  • Powerful screening and assessment tools that emphasize connection and setting
  • Strategies for working with children, veterans, first responders and more!

No matter where you’re at in your journey as a clinician, you deserve to feel cool, calm, and confident when these tough cases land at your door.

This is your chance to set yourself apart from the status quo of suicidality treatment and give your clients your very best, even when they feel at their very worst.

Register now!

Credit

Program Information

Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.



Canada Credit - *

NOTE: Tuition includes one free CE Certificate (participant will be able to print the certificate of completion after passing the online post-test (80% passing score) and completing the evaluation). Instructional methods will include PowerPoint, didactic lecture, and others.

Continuing Education Information:  Listed below are the continuing education credit(s) currently available for this non-interactive self-study package. Program content is reviewed periodically per accrediting board rules for currency and appropriateness for credit. Credit approvals are subject to change. Please note, your licensing board dictates whether self-study is an acceptable form of continuing education, as well as which credit types are acceptable for continuing education hours. Please refer to your licensing board's rules and regulations. If your profession is not listed, please contact your licensing board to determine your continuing education requirements and check for reciprocal approval. 
For other credit inquiries not specified below, please contact info@pesi.com or 800-844-8260 before purchase.

Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of your profession.  As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your profession's standards.  

For Planning Committee disclosures, please see the statement above.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.

 


Canada Credit - ---

Earn up to 6.25 CE hours. Please see below, for more details, as credit amounts vary by jurisdiction and profession. 


Canada Credit - Canadian Counsellors and Psychotherapists

PESI, Inc. is approved by the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association to offer continuing education for counsellors and psychotherapists. PESI, Inc. maintains responsibility for the program. This self-study activity is approved for 6.0 credit hours.


Canada Credit - Canadian Psychologists

PESI, Inc. is approved by the Canadian Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. PESI, Inc. maintains responsibility for the program. This program is approved for 6.0 self-study continuing education hours. Full credit statement at: www.pesi.com/cpa-statement


Canada Credit - Social Workers - National ASWB ACE

PESI, Inc., #1062, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: January 27, 2026 - January 27, 2029. Social workers completing this course receive 6.25 Clinical continuing education credits.

Course Level: Intermediate Format: Recorded asynchronous distance. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance.

 

Canadian Social Workers: Canadian provinces may accept activities offered by providers approved by the ASWB ACE program for ongoing professional development.


Canada Credit - Other Professions

This self-study activity qualifies for 6.25 continuing education clock hours as required by many national and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Save your activity advertisement and certificate of completion, and contact your own board or organization for specific requirements.


US National Boards - Addiction Counselors - NAADAC

This self-study course has been approved by PESI, Inc., as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #77553. PESI, Inc. is responsible for all aspects of their programming.

This self-study course offers 6.0 continuing education contact hours in the Counseling Services skill group. Full attendance is required; no partial credit will be awarded for partial attendance.


US National Boards - Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, and Clinical Nurse Specialists – ANCC

PESI, Inc. is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Nurses completing these self-study materials will earn 6.25 contact hours. Expires: 10/06/2028.



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Speaker

Paul Brasler, LCSW, CAIMHP's Profile

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Paul Brasler, LCSW, CAIMHP, became a licensed clinical social worker in 2002. Paul is the coordinator for the Chesterfield County (Virginia) Employee Behavioral Health Program, through which he and his team provide clinical services to first responders and human services personnel. He has extensive experience working with people in crisis and people living with substance use disorders, including adolescent residential treatment, community mental health settings, hospital emergency departments, juvenile drug court, and private practice.

Paul has been a national presenter (through PESI) since 2016, and he has presented classes across the country on mental health emergencies, high-risk clients, resiliency, and a certification course for clinicians working with people with substance use disorders. He has written three books: The Clinician’s Guide to Suicide Management, PESI Publishing, 2025; The Clinician’s Guide to Substance Use Disorder, PESI Publishing, 2022; and High-Risk Clients, PESI Publishing, 2019. Paul lives in Richmond, Virginia, with his beautiful wife, three sons, cowardly dog, and two dwarf rabbits who are quietly plotting to destroy the world.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Paul Brasler maintains a private practice and has an employment relationship with Chesterfield County. He receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Paul Brasler has no relevant non-financial relationships.


Additional Info

Program Information

Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)

Access never expires for this product.


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Objectives

  1. Evaluate the myths, language, and stigma surrounding suicide to inform clinical treatment interventions.
  2. Analyze risk and protective factors associated with suicide to enhance treatment outcomes.
  3. Use screening and assessment tools to guide clinical decision-making.
  4. Utilize collaborative safety planning and crisis interventions, including CAMS, to reduce suicidal behaviors.
  5. Choose dialectical behavior therapy strategies to treat suicidality.
  6. Examine ethical and legal considerations, including informed consent and a client’s right to self-determination, to reduce liability in clinical care.

Outline

Suicide Defined

  • Language and the Stigma of Suicide
  • Myths of Suicide
  • Theoretical Basis of Suicide

Professional Self-Care

  • Establish Safe Practices
  • The Importance of Informed Consent to Treatment
  • Dealing with the Death of a Patient by Suicide
  • Patients Who Conceal Their Suicidal Ideation

Suicide Risk Factors

Protective Factors Against Suicide

Suicide Ideation to Action

  • Suicide Warning Signs
  • Suicide Ideation to Action Theories
  • Suicide Intent (Planning) and Methods
  • Means Safety
  • Suicide Attempts
  • Non-Suicidal Self-Injury

Suicide Screening and Assessment

  • Suicide Screening Tools
  • Suicide Assessment

Disposition

  • Psychiatric Hospitalization
  • Why No Harm Contracts are an Incredibly Bad Idea
  • Safety Planning
  • Collaborative Assessment for Management of Suicidality (CAMS)

Cognitive Behavioral Therapies

  • Brief Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Suicide Prevention
  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy
  • Psychopharmacology of Suicide Treatment

Special Populations

  • Suicide Assessment and Interventions for Children and Adolescents
  • Suicide and Active-Duty Military Personnel, Veterans, and First Responders
  • Suicide and Older Adults

Ethical and Legal Issues

  • A Client’s Right to Self-Determination Versus Our Legal Responsibilities
  • Managing Liability
  • Risks, Limitations & Further Research

Target Audience

  • Mental health Counsellors
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Clinical Social Workers
  • Substance Use Treatment Providers
  • Case Managers
  • Psychologists
  • Psychiatrists
  • Pharmacists
  • Medical Physicians
  • Physician Assistants
  • Nurse Practitioners
  • Registered Nurses (general, education, ambulatory care, psychiatric, critical care, community/public health, management/administration)
  • Probation/Parole Officers
  • Judges
  • Police Officers
  • Paramedics and Other First Responders
  • Clergy
  • Chaplains
  • Military Religious Affairs
  • Teachers
  • School Administrators (Primary, Secondary, and University)
  • Concerned Parents

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