Life Skills Curricula for Mental Wellness and Personal Growth

The Suicide & Self-Injury Prevention Workbook: A Clinician’s Guide to Assist Adult Clients provides reproducible assessments, activity handouts, journaling prompts, and educational resources for professionals working with individuals struggling with suicidal ideation and self-harm. This practical workbook helps clients build insight, recognize warning signs, and learn healthier ways to cope with painful emotions.

Designed for clinicians, therapists, counselors, and group facilitators, this workbook saves preparation time by offering ready-to-use tools that can be applied in individual therapy, small groups, or paired sessions. Each reproducible activity supports reflection, skill-building, and therapeutic conversation.

• Reproducible assessments and activities — easy-to-use worksheets, handouts, and journaling prompts.
• Flexible format — suitable for individual clients, pairs, or small therapeutic groups.
• Practical clinician tools — structured activities reduce prep time while ensuring meaningful therapeutic engagement.
• Six comprehensive sections:
  
  • Self-Injury — identify self-harming behaviors, triggers, and coping alternatives.
  • Warning Signs — explore the signs and symptoms that may indicate suicidal thoughts or crises.
  • Risk Factors — recognize personal, social, and environmental risks and ways to reduce their impact.
  • Prevention — develop coping skills, self-reflection habits, and recovery strategies.
  • Support — build personal support systems and emergency safety plans.
  • Client and Clinician Resources — access national hotlines and reliable prevention materials.

• Clinicians, therapists, and counselors guiding clients struggling with suicidal ideation or self-harm.
• Psychologists, social workers, and group facilitators integrating structured activities into treatment.
• Crisis intervention professionals seeking reproducible, practical tools to support clients in crisis.
• Clients who want guided ways to reflect on their struggles and begin building resilience and healthier coping strategies.

A Companion Suicide & Self-Injury Prevention Card Deck

Need a creative way to start your session? Use the Suicide & Self-Injury Prevention Card Deck.
The open-ended discussion questions will break the ice, encourage honest dialogue, and connect directly with workbook activities. Each card corresponds to a workbook page for seamless integration into sessions.

• What are some of the primary reasons you deliberately cause pain or injury to yourself?
• What do you like or love about yourself? (Don’t be modest!)
• What are some of your warning signs of being in crisis? How do you usually respond?

E-Book Option

 Available in print and eBook (PDF), the Suicide & Self-Injury Prevention Workbook provides clinicians with a structured, evidence-informed approach to addressing self-harm and suicide risk. Reproducible worksheets make it easy to adapt activities to fit counseling sessions, small groups, or individual client needs. 

To purchase the adult reproducible workbooks or the card set, go to Whole Person Associates at:

 Suicide & Self-Injury Prevention Workbook | Whole Person Associates  

The Teen Suicide & Self-Harm Prevention Workbook is a proactive resource designed to help clinicians address the difficult issues of teen suicide prevention and self-harm. This reproducible workbook provides activity handouts, self-assessments, journaling prompts, and clinician guidance to support teens in understanding their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and developing healthier coping strategies.

This step-by-step guide helps clinicians create a safe environment for teens to reflect on warning signs, risk factors, prevention strategies, and sources of support. The workbook is not diagnostic but offers practical tools to spark realizations, reduce stigma, and encourage hope and healing.

• Reproducible resources: Activity handouts, self-assessments, and worksheets ready for use in therapy, classrooms, or small groups.
• Progressive chapter structure: Each section builds on the last, helping teens move from self-reflection to positive action.
• Clinician support: Guidance for adapting activities to individuals or small groups, ensuring confidentiality and safety.
• Practical exercises: Self-exploration, journaling, coping strategies, and goal-setting activities.
• Six focused chapters:
  • Self-Harm – explore and identify self-injury behaviors and coping alternatives.
  • Warning Signs – recognize emotional, behavioral, and situational red flags.
  • Risk Factors – understand personal, relational, and environmental influences.
  • Prevention – practice healthy coping strategies and crisis planning.
  • Support – build and strengthen personal support systems.
  • Resources – connect with national and local suicide prevention tools.

• Clinicians, therapists, and counselors working with teens at risk of self-harm or suicide.
• School psychologists and guidance staff addressing prevention and crisis intervention.
• Youth program facilitators seeking structured activities to support vulnerable teens.
• Teens in therapy or small groups who need safe, guided self-reflection and coping skills.

Need a creative way to start your session? Use the Teen Suicide & Self-Harm Prevention Card Deck.
Using the Discussion Starter Card Deck will break the ice, encourage openness, and help introduce a specific subject. Activity handouts included in these workbooks are reflective, easy-to-use exercises, presented in a variety of formats to accommodate multiple intelligences and different learning styles. Each question corresponds to a page in the workbook.

Sample Questions

• Many people harm themselves in an attempt to deal with their emotional pain. What does your emotional pain feel like?
• Rather than impulsively harming yourself in any way, what is a possible alternative at an emotional moment?
• Who is part of your support team when you consider self-harm or suicide?
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To purchase the adult reproducible workbooks or the card set, go to Whole Person Associates at:

 Teen Suicide & Self-Harm Prevention Workbook | Whole Person Associates