Suicide & Self-Injury Prevention Workbook and Card Deck

The Suicide & Self-Injury Prevention Workbook: A Clinician’s Guide to Assist Adult Clients is a resource for professionals looking for proactive ways of dealing with the complicated issues of self-harm and suicidal ideation. Your time is valuable. Suicide & Self-Injury Prevention Workbook provides ready-to-go educational assessments, handouts, and worksheets that can be used as-is or easily modified for the specific needs of your client or small group. You will have more time to spend helping your participants understand these complex issues instead of creating new resources from scratch.

This workbook provides information and tools that can be used in the order presented to build upon one another, or you can select the assessments and tools you think best fit your client at any given point in their therapy. Designed to be used by you, a trained clinician, the Suicide & Self-Injury Prevention Workbook will help you teach your clients to manage their thoughts, feelings, and behaviours related to the complex issues of suicidal ideation and self-harm.

Facilitators can use the pages of this workbook in a variety of ways:

• Use activities with individual clients alone, in pairs, or in a very small group. As long as all participants are on board, the activities can be completed individually and then shared. Additional insights can result when there is a pair or a small group.
• The clinician may help individual clients or small group members complete the activities as needed. The professional will then help clients process their responses after completing each activity.
• Small group members can utilize the activities as part of the therapeutic process. Using this approach, they can process the information together with other group members to help achieve commonality and optimal results.