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Suicide Assessment and Intervention Training for Mental Health Professionals.

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.

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