The purpose of this interactive, live, virtual training is to introduce participants to strategies that can be used to best deal with patient crises, risk situations, and difficult or hard to engage patients. Participants will work on developing strategies for addressing such issues as suicidal ideation, homicidal ideation, the impact of personality disorders, boundaries, transference, countertransference, inappropriate behavior, and other patient-clinician relationship type issues are discussed. Participants are encouraged to share past and present work-related experiences with handling such situations.

Speakers: 

Thomas E. Freese, PhD, UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs

Christopher Rocchio, PhD, LCSW, CSAC, UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs

At the end of this training, participants will be able to:

1. Identify three strategies for addressing suicidal ideation with patients.
2. Distinguish two risk factors for suicidal ideation from risk factors for harm to others.
3. Apply the four components of the LEAP technique to de-escalate a crisis situation.
4. Formulate two organizational strategies to support staff during and after a crisis.
5. Breakdown three indicators for high, moderate, and low risk suicidality and violent behavior.