Child and Adolescent Suicide: Prevention, Crisis Management, Postvention (WNBC1020)

Presented by the Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program

Speaker Introduction by Dr. Savitri Dixon-Saxon

This webinar addresses the significant concerns of suicide and suicide prevention and provides training needed by counselors to effectively assist those at risk for attempting suicide. It includes myths connected with suicide, risk and protective factors for suicide; signs and symptoms, suicidal assessment; ethical and legal issues surrounding suicide; and counseling techniques with children, adolescents, survivors, and their families. Guidelines for prevention, crisis management, and post-vention are included.

Objectives:

Provide mental health counselors with the information they need to recognize myths and identify risk and protective factors that will inform their decisions about identifying potentially suicidal clients and developing counseling/treatment plans. 
Discuss risk factors that increase the risk of suicidal intentionality and to discuss the protective factors that lessen the risk of suicidal attempts and completions
Provide mental health counselors with the information they need to recognize the suicidal profile so they might more easily identify potentially suicidal clients and develop counseling/treatment plans. 
Describe approaches to prevention to lessen the risk of suicidal attempts and completions.  
Provide mental health counselors with the information they need for crisis management, suicide assessment, and postvention needed to develop counseling/treatment plans for the potentially suicidal child and adolescent and the survivors of suicide attempts and completions. 
Present and discuss suicide and the law.

Accreditation Statement(s)
Walden University’s Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 4546. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Walden University’s Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Successful completion of this resource provides NBCC clock hours; partial credit will not be offered.

**ACEP contact information:**
100 Washington Ave. S Suite 1210, Minneapolis MN, 55401
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.waldenu.edu

ADA Accommodation Statement
If you need accommodations to attend this webinar, please e-mail [email protected].