Friday 7 November 2025 from 10.00 to 13.00
"Suicide and surroundings: with DBT principles and protocols"
Lavinia Barone
The seminar is aimed at: associates and ordinary members, Members who have completed at least the first part of the Intensive Training.
In the light of Marsha’s indications that DBT is not a suicide prevention treatment (Marsha’s mantra is "a life worth living" and not a life at all costs, just to use the extension strategy) and remembering that, at the same time, research data show us that DBT is an effective treatment in reducing suicide attempts, the seminar has the following training objectives:
1. Learn if and when to make an evaluation screening
2. Learn how to treat suicide within the different modes of intervention (individual therapy, consultation team, telephone consultation, skills training).
3. Learning to identify conditions and to think clinically about hospitalisation. The seminar is aimed at all members - associated and ordinary - who have completed the Intensive Training or who have attended at least the first part.
It requires participation with a proper or known clinical case and knowledge of Chapter 13 pp. 532-562 of the volume M.M: Linehan, (2021), Cognitive-behavioral treatment of borderline disorder. The DBT model, Cortina, Milan. It also requires to have in mind or available the material of the Intensive Training (crisis management card, diary card, case formulation). It requires you to take into account the material related to the suicidal assessment (RAMP). The publication will also be sent to all participants:
Baron, L., Suicide and surroundings. Reflections and operational indications from the Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), PsicObjective, XVIII, 1, 23-32 ID: 5494878
It provides moments of frontal teaching, role-playing, group exercises.
