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A two-day virtual conference designed to strengthen confidence and competence in providing caring, evidence-based services to clients with suicide risk.
Learning Objectives:
Day 1:
Describe a model for understanding suicide and list factors that contribute to increased suicide risk.
Discuss how clinicians can engage in suicide prevention in their clinical practice
Describe the suicidal mode and identify the mechanisms targeted by newly-developed treatments in suicide prevention.
Identify core principles that can guide the suicide assessment process and brief interventions to implement to maintain client safety.
Articulate the role of firearms in suicide and how to integrate firearm safety conversations into suicide prevention efforts.
Explain the unique emotions that typify suicide bereavement and an approach to facilitate emotional acceptance.
Day 2:
Identify suicide-focused care models that fit a clinician’s clinical approach best and ways they can utilize their emotional reactions while working with suicidal individuals.
Describe client perspectives on disclosure of suicidality and strategies to increase comfort in disclosure
Explain considerations for supporting students returning to school following suicide-related crises and how best practices for student reintegration may be generalized for community reintegration of individuals in all life stages.
Identify telehealth adaptations of suicide prevention strategies and how they may be implemented (Describe imminent suicide risk assessment and responses.)
Explain the relationship between substance use and suicide and how substance use is a risk factor for suicide.
Describe developmental changes in sleep in adolescence, how to assess sleep quality in youth, and intervention strategies to improve sleep in adolescents that may be relevant for suicide prevention.
Demonstrate how to ask a client if they are experiencing suicidal thoughts, incorporate one new practice for suicide prevention, and develop a practice plan to put in effect when a person states they have been thinking about suicide
Location: Virtual
Sponsored By: The Wellness Institute, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, American Association of Suicidology, the Jed Foundation, Education Development Center, Zero Suicide Institute, and CAMS Care
Cost:
Summit Full Access + One-Year Events Membership
- Full Access to the 2-Day Summit
- 8.0 CE Credit (see accreditation statement above)
- One Year of access to all TWI Events ($600 value)
$249.00
Summit Pass + CE Credit
- Full Access to the 2-day Summit
- 8.0 CE Credit (see accreditation statement above)
$149.00
Summit Pass
- Full Access to the 2-day Summit (No CE Credit included)
$99.00
For questions, email info@wellnessinstitute.org