Assessing & Managing Suicide Risk

  • 4/18/2014 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
  • True
  • United Way 2400 Reading Rd. Cincinnati
  • Education
  • Vicki Thatcher
  • [email protected]
  • 6.5
  • 4/16/2014 9:30 AM
  • 26
    • $45.00
    • $45.00

  • REGISTRATION ENDS MONDAY, 4/14/14 AT 9:30 AM.

    A one-day workshop for mental health professionals on assessing suicide risk, planning treatment, and managing the ongoing care of the at-risk client. Sponsored by the Ohio Suicide Prevention Foundation by funding from SAMHSA GLS Grant,, the American Association of Suicidology, and the Suicide Prevention Resource Center, Mental Health America of Northern Kentucky & Southwest Ohio, and the Tri State Suicide Prevention Coalition.

    Participants will gain knowledge in the following core competencies:

    • Managing one’s own reactions to suicide

    • Reconciling the difference and potential conflict between a clinician’s goal to prevent suicide and a client’s goal to eliminate psychological pain

    through suicide

    • Maintaining a collaborative, non-adversarial stance

    • Eliciting suicide ideation, behavior, and plans

    • Making a clinical judgment of the risk that a client will attempt or complete suicide

    • Collaboratively developing an emergency plan

    • Developing a written treatment and services plan that addresses a client’s immediate, acute, and continuing suicide ideation and risk for suicide

    • Developing policies and procedures for following clients closely

    • Implementing the principles of crisis management

    Assessing and Managing Suicide Risk includes:

    • 6 ½ hours of training, comprised of an engaging mix of lecture and exercises

    • A 110-page participant manual, including an extensive bibliography and other valuable resources

    • A video presentation in eight segments, highlighting the competencies taught

    • Journaling throughout the day

    • Ample time for discussion

    The cost for the training is $45.00 and covers the participant manual and materials. Lunch and snacks will be provided to attendees.

    No walk-ins will be accepted.  PBC Volunteers may not use this as a free PBC training.

    About the speaker: Josephine Ridley Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist and Program Manager for the Wade Park Psychiatry Day Hospital. She received a B.A. degree from The College of Wooster, her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Clinical Psychology from West Virginia University where she was awarded a W.E.B. Dubois Fellowship. She completed a psychology internship at the Cleveland VAMC with rotations in health psychology,  osttraumatic stress disorder, neuropsychology and inpatient psychiatry, and has worked at several sites in the VA. Dr. Ridley has been an  djunct professor at Baldwin-Wallace College and Cuyahoga Community College Eastern Campus, and served on the VA's Psychology Training Committee for 3 years. She is published in the area of anxiety disorders and is currently conducting research on depression. She is a voting member of the VA’s Institutional Review Board and Police Evaluation Committee. She is also a member of the Ohio Suicide Prevention  Foundation Advisory Committee and is certified by the Suicide Prevention Resource Center as a Trainer of Trainers in Assessing and Managing Suicide Risk. Everyone involved in the planning and delivery of this workshop is required to disclose any relevant financial interest or other relationship.