De-Escalation and Coping Skills to Prevent and Manage Crisis Situations & Self-Care Strategies
12:30 - 3:45pm CST each day
Course Description
Developing coping methods for the consumer in crisis and those who care for them is an important part of crisis intervention. Skills such as mindfulness, emotional regulation and distress tolerance can be very helpful for persons who are struggling to cope. Participants will learn skills informed by both Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) and Motivational Interviewing (MI), and will gain more tools to add to their crisis intervention toolbox, including ways to incorporate skills into their own lives to reinforce self-care.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn how we regulate stress
- Review of principles of crisis intervention
- Learn skills that are effective to prevent and manage crises
- Practice teaching consumers how to use these skills
- Incorporate these skills into our own lives as workers as part of self-care
About Your Trainer
Jessica Beauchamp, LCSW, SAS, SOTS
Jessica Beauchamp has 18+ years of experience in the human services field. She earned her graduate degree from Michigan State University. Areas of knowledge includes case management, service facilitation, administration, management, counseling, and program development. Jes worked in Community Mental Health (CMH) agencies for several years and in 2016 opened her own private mental health practice.
With CMH she provided crisis intervention services and worked closely with the court system and Chapters 51 and 55. She also worked in several roles within Comprehensive Community Support (CCS), Community Support Teams (CST), and Children’s Long-Term Services (CLTS) programs.
In private practice Jes offers unique services in that a majority of the treatment takes place in the community, nature, or the client home. She also contracts and consults with local practitioners and several agencies around the state of WI.
Jes has presented to a variety of audiences on topics including: wraparound, assessing suicide risk, crisis/safety planning, substance use/abuse, ethics/boundaries, personality disorders, Autism and HIPAA.