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Therapeutic Risk Management With PTSD Part 2: Chain Analysis and Safety Planning

 

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Therapeutic Risk Management With PTSD Part 2: Chain Analysis and Safety Planning

  • Date Created: 09/15/2023
  • Time to Complete: 1 hour
  • Credits: ANCC, APA, ASWB, ACCME, NBCC, Other Orgs
  • Skill Level: Intermediate
  • Course Series: PTSD 101, PTSD Consultation Lecture Series

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Therapeutic Risk Management With PTSD Part 2: Chain Analysis and Safety Planning Author(s):

Sean Barnes, PhD

Lauren M. Borges, PhD

Description

Chain analysis is a critical strategy for therapeutic risk management of suicidal ideation and behavior. Despite its importance, chain analysis is not widely disseminated. This course provides critical tools for executing chain analysis, helping participants to build new strategies for intervening on suicidal ideation and behavior and improving the quality of safety plans.

The presenters describe how to identify the factors sustaining suicidal ideation and behavior, with positive and negative reinforcement investigated as pathways maintaining suicide risk. They next discuss the components of the behavioral chain and how the chain can be used as an intervention strategy and inform more detailed and effective safety plans. This course focuses on the relevance of these strategies for Veterans reporting symptoms of PTSD using case examples.

Goals and Objectives

  • Describe the purpose of chain analysis and how positive and negative reinforcement can cause suicidal ideation and behavior to persist
  • Identify how chain analysis can be used as an intervention strategy
  • Describe how chain analysis can be used to augment safety planning
  • Discuss case examples where chain analysis and safety planning are applied to Veterans reporting symptoms of PTSD

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