Micro-interventions to Support Those Escaping Emotional Pain: Addressing Overlapping Substance Use and Suicide Risk
Micro-interventions to Support Those Escaping Emotional Pain: Addressing Overlapping Substance Use and Suicide Risk is organized by The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.
Course opens: 05/13/2022
Course expires: 05/31/2024
Overview :
Few clinicians understand how suicidal thoughts and behaviors are similar to substance use in that they can create emotional and physiological relief. In this webinar, healthcare professionals will be informed about the connections between suicide and substance use-- and be encouraged to work across disciplines on prevention strategies.
Learning Objectives:
After completing this course, the learner should be better able to:
• Describe the intersection between suicidal risk and substance use including research quantitative and qualitative research.
• Assess and stabilize clients with suicidal ideation using a DBT informed approach.
• Describe the overlapping functions of the behaviors of substance use and suicidal phenomena.
Course Outline
• Comorbidity of SUD and mental health - what we know and how it relates to suicidal behavior rates
• Suicidal behavior and substance use from a behavioral perspective: overlap and divergence
• Perspectives: those with lived experience
• Emotional emergencies and substance use: the biopsychosocial theory of emotion dysregulation
• Brief intervention plans for emotional emergencies with those at risk of or experiencing SUD & suicidal intensity
• Creating a brief emergency response plan
• Dialectical Behavior Therapy: supporting the plan with several coping strategies
• Question & Answer
