In this session, you will learn to:
- Manage personal reactions to suicidal clients.
- Recognize 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.
- Explain the value of appropriate postvention and grief support services for individuals and communities affected by suicide.
Time: 9:00AM-4:30PM (registration from 8:30AM-9:00AM)
Location: Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Alumni Hall, 130 Essex Street, South Hamilton, MA.