Clinicians and other professional helpers know that encountering suicide is an inevitable and significant part of their work. However, many lack confidence for this role and feel inadequately prepared. suicide to Hope offers a unique training opportunity to improve helpers’ preparation to provide effective suicide care using a Recovery and Growth approach.
Why recovery and growth?
Recovery and growth through painful experiences is a common goal in medicine. It has increasingly shaped expectations in mental health but has yet to be systematically applied to suicide care. suicide to Hope helps participants:
Create hope by affirming that suicide experiences can be life-changing if people keep safe and choose to live;
Assist people to work through suicide toward achievable recovery and growth goals; and
Integrate suicide care into recovery approaches to mental health and wellbeing.
Workshop process and objectives
The workshop’s goal is to encourage and enable participants to apply a recovery and growth-oriented approach to working with persons previously at risk and currently safe from suicide. Through interactive learning and practice, participants will learn to:
- Reflect on their qualities as helpers—the beliefs, values and attitudes they bring to the helping relationship—and how these impact on the effectiveness of their work
- Describe key features of a hope-oriented, recovery and growth approach to suicide;
- Understand a framework for finding and exploring recovery and growth opportunities in suicide experiences; and
- Apply a Pathway to Hope (PaTH) model for setting and working toward recovery and growth goals.
Who should take suicide to Hope?
suicide to Hope is for clinicians and other professional helpers who are, or would like to be, involved in ongoing suicide care for people, once they are safe. It assumes that participants are familiar with suicide intervention and can provide suicide first aid. While LivingWorks’ ASIST is not a prerequisite, it is recommended as one way to learn suicide first aid and provides background for suicide to Hope’s learning processes and tools.
* extracted from the LivingWorks website
Andrew James Norton
and Associates