DBT Skills for Crisis Response

• Get a structured, practical framework for responding to suicidal ideation and self-harming behaviors.
• Strategies for guiding crisis conversations toward collaborative planning that promotes safety, connection, and hope.
• Leave with a toolbox of DBT strategies to support client safety, emotional regulation, and treatment engagement.

When a client shares suicidal thoughts or engages in self-directed violence, clinicians often face complex decisions regarding assessment, intervention, and risk management.

In this 4-hour webinar, Charles Jacob, PhD, presents a DBT-informed framework for working with clients experiencing suicidal ideation, self-directed violence, and related high-risk behaviors. You will learn to:

• Conduct clinically appropriate suicide risk assessments
• Identify evidence-informed approaches to crisis intervention and safety planning
• Develop collaborative safety plans that support ongoing risk management
• Apply DBT skills from the four core skill domains – mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness – to address factors associated with suicidal and self-harming behaviors
• Adapt assessment and intervention strategies across clinical populations and treatment settings

To support assessment and intervention efforts, you’ll explore key DBT techniques – including STOP, TIP, ACCEPTS, IMPROVE, and ABC PLEASE - along with tools such as Subjective Units of Distress Scale (SUDS) ratings, chain analysis, and structured crisis response planning.

Register today!