Introduction
Date Course Created: July 2025
For too long, suicide prevention has been taught through a fear-based crisis lens that can damage the therapeutic alliance and leave clients feeling unheard. While managing immediate risk is critical, true safety is more than just restriction. What if we could move beyond crisis management and instead help clients build a life they genuinely want to live?
This transformative 2.5-CE seminar reframes suicide care. You’re invited to step away from outdated, oppressive practices toward a compassionate and effective framework rooted in connection, autonomy, and empowerment. Learn to cultivate a profound sense of safety with and within your clients, fostering a therapeutic space that addresses the deep-seated pain behind suicidal thoughts, not just the thoughts themselves.
By integrating top-down and bottom-up strategies, this course will equip you with the clinical tools to confidently support clients experiencing suicidal ideation. Explore the crucial impacts of systemic forces like patriarchy and minority stress and provide practical somatic, cognitive, and intrapersonal skills to help clients not only survive, but thrive. Leave with the confidence and skills to move beyond crisis intervention and toward fostering lasting hope and resilience!
This is a 2.5-CE noninteractive, self-paced online video course delivered in home study format via an industry-standard online learning platform.
Agenda
00:00 – 00:30 → Introduction and Overview, Rethinking Suicidality, Ideation to Action Framework
00:30 – 01:00 → Dynamic Nature of Suicide Risk, Case Approach,Challenging Oppressive Practices
01:00 – 01:30 → Core Principles of Collaborative Treatment & Safety Plans, Cognitive Reappraisal Techniques
01:30 – 02:00 → Identifying Personal Values, Thought Diffusion Techniques, Somatic Approaches to Crisis Management
02:00 – 02:32 → Vagal Toning Practices, Daily Glimmers and Positive Moments, Grounding Techniques, Q&A
Objectives
This training will provide participants clinical knowledge and tools to:
After completing this training, participants will be able to identify and evaluate the “ideation to action” framework as it relates to suicidal/parasuicidal behaviors.- After completing this training, participants will be able to apply at least one (1) theory of suicide to the process of clinical assessment and safety/treatment planning.
- After completing this training, participants will be able to categorize acute and chronic risk using a risk stratification tool.
- After completing this training, participants will be able to identify and address barriers associated with completing a safety plan.
- After completing this training, participants will be able to evaluate the self of the therapist as a critical component of care.
- After completing this training, participants will be able to employ cognitive, somatic, and intrapersonal strategies to help clients assess and manage suicidal urges.
Target Audience:
Mental health counselors, psychologists, social workers, marriage and family therapists, telehealth treatment professionals, and other clinical mental health professionals treating sexual trauma.
Instructional Level: Intermediate
Instructor(s): Rafaella Smith-Fiallo, LCSW
Material Author(s): Rafaella Smith-Fiallo, LCSW
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Course Materials & Delivery Method:
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- Delivery Method – This course is a recorded asynchronous, self-paced webinar training, and there is no access time limit or due date to complete it once enrolled. The enrolled learner will stream the recorded presentation and view the materials from their internet connected device via an industry-standard online learning platform.
CE Approvals:
National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC)
Online CE Credits has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6795. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Online CE Credits is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB)
Mind Works Professional Education, Inc. DBA Online CE Credits, #1974, 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: July 23, 2025 – July 23, 2028. Social workers completing this course receive 2.5 clinical continuing education credits.
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