Reducing risk: navigating emotional triangles in clinical work with youth suicidality and self‐harm
Jo Wright,
Robyn Milligan,
Michelle Varcoe
Abstract:In clinical work with families in which a young person is at real and significant risk of self‐harm or even death by suicide, predictable emotional triangles both within the family and within the treating system intensify. As understandable fear and worry in parents and clinicians rises in response to potential risk, these emotionally driven relational processes become even more rigid. This typically results in a reduction in cognitive and behavioural flexibility, which can potentially and unwittingly increase… Show more
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