Chronic Suicidality and Self-Harm in BPD – July 2023
July 19 @ 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Clients with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) or traits are often chronically suicidal and use self-harm to regulate their emotional world. Working therapeutically with these presentations requires the clinician to assess and manage the risk differently.
This workshop will provide learning in:
- understanding the difference between chronic and acute suicide risk
- the functions of self-harm
- a model of risk assessment specific to chronic self-injury risk in BPD
- talking with the at-risk borderline client and managing the dynamics
- knowing and observing our own emotional responses and counter-transference
- making management decisions about risk in this population, and documenting this
- common systemic dynamics that occur between professionals when faced with risk in borderline personality disorder, and how to navigate these issues.
Please note, Monash Health staff need not enrol. For any enquiries, please contact pd@cairnmillar.edu.au.
Our Trainers
Kelly Watt-McMahon, Senior Lecturer and Coordinator.
Important Information
Please note, this course is subject to receiving a minimum number of enrolments and conditional to Government restrictions implemented at the time of the course. In the case we are unable to deliver a face-to-face workshop, the event will be transferred to online delivery instead. We will email all registered attendees as soon as possible if changes are required. In this case, a free course transfer will also be available to an alternative course date, or a full refund of the course minus any platform ticketing fees.
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