Understanding Suicide with Safety Planning Training Series

Overview

This training is designed to increase knowledge and improve the skills and confidence of clinicians and others who find themselves identifying high-risk youth and adults, and planning for their care.   

Based on our Suicide Assessment and Intervention Training for Mental Health Professionals, participants will learn:   

• Manage personal reactions to suicidal clients   
• List suicide warning signs and risk and protective factors   
• Demonstrate techniques to elicit suicidal ideation and history of behaviors   
• Identify strategies and tools to assess risk   
• Describe how a client’s ambivalence about suicide is an opportunity to intervene and how the client may view suicide as a coping strategy   

Details:

• Audience: Social Service Organizations
• Length:  1 Workshop (2 sessions, 3 hours each)  
• CEs: Not Available