Decreasing Risk & Facilitating Healing: Incorporating Internal Family Systems into Management of Suicidal Ideation

Earn 2 CEUS!*

Description

This workshop will explore suicidal ideation using an Internal Family Systems (IFS) lens. This will include exploring how parts language and other IFS principles can reduce the internalized stigma clients may hold about experiencing SI, including helping them experience reduced shame and hesitation to disclose SI. Therapists will then learn techniques for increasing clients’ access to self-preserving thoughts & beliefs and ways to practice self-preserving actions. The workshop will conclude with how to complete a suicide risk assessment & safety plan using parts language and how to use this assessment to assist clients in gaining more insight into the suicidal ideation they experience. Discussions on how to use IFS flexibly & how to integrate it with other therapeutic models are integrated into the course.

Objectives:

1.Therapists will learn how to use parts language to de-stigmatize suicidal ideation, including how to reduce client shame surrounding SI and client hesitation to disclose SI.

2.Therapists will learn how to complete a risk assessment & safety plan using parts language.

3.Therapists will learn how to use parts language to increase client insight into suicidal ideation, including how to support clients in changing their relationship to suicidal parts.

4.Therapists will learn how to use parts language to increase clients’ access to self-preserving thoughts & engagement in self-preserving actions. This will include parts-based coping & self-regulation skills.

* This CE activity offered by Minnesota Association of Marriage and Family is approved by the Minnesota Board of Social Work as an approved CE Provider (approval valid through July 25, 2026).

This CE activity is pending CE approval with Minnesota Board of Behavioral Health and Board of Marriage and Family Therapy.