Lawrence Hedges, PhD, PsyD, ABPP June 8 2019
Larry Hedges, PhD, PsyD, ABPP
CALL OF DARKNESS: MANAGING SUICIDALITY IN CLINICAL PRACTICE
8 June 2019 – 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
Vanguard University of Southern California
Costa Mesa, CA 92626
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This intermediate to advanced course for mental health professionals begins with the awareness that our ability to predict suicide is little better than chance and that at present there are no consistently reliable empirically validated treatment techniques to prevent suicide. However, Dr. Hedges will demonstrate that in the past three decades much has been learned about the dynamics of suicide and many promising treatment approaches have been advanced that are slowly yielding clinical as well as empirical results.
Dr. Hedges will present the groundbreaking work on suicidality of Freud, Jung, Menninger and Shneidman as well as the more recent work of Linehan, Kernberg, Joiner and the attachment theorists along with the features in common that these treatment approaches seem to share. He will put forth a Relational Listening approach regarding the origins of suicidality in a relational/developmental context and will consider their implications for treating, and managing suicidality.
COURSE OBJECTIVES: At the conclusion of this class participants will be able to:
- Define what Schneiderman meant by “psychache”.
- Describe Joiner’s interpersonal approach to understanding and managing suicide.
- Explain the difference between “mourning” and “melancholia”.
- State how the attachment-abandonment dynamic can lead to instrumental suicidality.
- State how the connection-withdrawal dynamic can lead to lethal suicidality.
- Explain what can be learned in a “suicide autopsy”.
- State the difference between “a cry for help” and “a cry of pain”.
For more information contact:
NPI Administrator: Socorro Klingman, 714.505-9080 or [email protected]