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The most comprehensive, practical, and user-friendly workbook to help save lives. Developed from years of working with the most challenging suicidal cases, Dr. Meagan N. Houston has created a workbook to prepare you for all the intricacies that affect clients' choices to live or die. Treating Suicidal Clients & Self-Harm Behaviors is filled with proven assessments, unique worksheets and action-based methods to help your clients navigate and survive the turbulent periods of their lives where suicidal and/or self-harm behaviors appear to be their primary options to cope. This complete resource also includes underlying etiology, varying life factors, and mental health concerns that influence suicidal and self-destructive behavior. Inside you will find: assessments, worksheets and guides; therapy approaches for Non-Suicidal Self-Injury (NSSI) and suicidal behavior; applying crisis management skills, DBT and CBT to treatment; ethical and legal issues related to working with suicidal behavior; incorporating technology into treatment; case examples; and specific strategies for working with children and adolescents, veterans, military personnel, LGBTQI, and the elderly.

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Meagan N. Houston, PhD, SAP, has been helping to save lives for more than a decade with her work in private practice, federal prisons, skilled nursing facilities, college counseling centers, and law enforcement. Dr. Houston is currently employed by the Houston Police Department Psychological Services Division, and maintains a private practice in Houston, Texas. She also provides consultation and training to various agencies across the country on suicidal behavior, suicide risk assessment, self-harm behaviors, social media and contagion. Madeline McCray is an actress, writer, producer, wellness activist, narrator, and lifestyle coach. She's known for producing international performing arts festivals, conference panels on domestic violence, and mental health awareness forums. McCray is also the author of the self-help book Healthy Women Rock: How to Live the Life You Desire and Deserve, and her tour de force solo play A Dream to Fly: Inspired by the Life and Times of Bessie Coleman, which she's had the pleasure to perform on college campuses, theaters, and arts festivals throughout the US and Caribbean. Madeline received a Best Supporting Actress Award in a Short Film (Fake Trees) from the Fusion International Film Festival and serves as artist in residence for The New Light Theatre Company in New York. Born in Harlem, New York, Madeline became an orphan at age fourteen when her mother suffered a fatal heart attack. Her journey forward includes: surviving domestic abuse, the pain of losing childhood friends to heroin drug overdoses, and giving birth to two beautiful sons, divorcing their father, and then moving forward with unstoppable energy. Her maverick mindset and insatiable desire to help people look beyond challenges to step into their power are the hallmarks of her successful coaching system. McCray incorporates techniques from thirty-plus years of entertainment industry training and wellness wisdom to empower clients. Madeline is a clear, compassionate communicator who works with clients online, teaching guided meditation, personal development, new career strategic planning, and body transformation. She's a proud mom who beams at the mention of her grandchildren.

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