Effective Suicide Treatment

This event is being co-sponsored with the
Vermont Psychological Association

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Friday, December 10th
9 - 4:30
6 CE

With Susan Marie, Ph.D., PMHNP, CARN-AP, Ph.D.

This holiday season is the perfect time to update your skills in suicide assessment and intervention. This course highlights new evidence-based practices which are proven to be more effective at reducing suicide, including zero suicide approaches, developing suicide safety plans, and means reduction skills. You will learn how to adapt your skills to assess and intervene with higher risk populations including veteran, elderly, LGBTQ and teen clients. This very practical course will increase your confidence and competence in preventing suicide.

Learning Objectives:

1. Describe how 3 myths about suicide interfere with effective intervention.
2. Compare and contrast suicide contracts and collaborative safety planning.
3. Describe 3 key contributing domains to holistic suicide assessment.
4. Apply crisis intervention skills specifically to address immediate suicidality.
5. Describe 3 behaviors that increase legal liability with suicidal clients. 
6. Describe how personal and professional experiences influence and impact clinical decision making with suicidal clients

About the presenter: 

Dr. Marie is the senior medical consultant and psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner for Behavioral Health with Central City Concern in Portland, Oregon. 
She is also on the graduate faculty at Oregon Health and Sciences University in Portland. She speaks nationally on effective suicide intervention, psychopharmacology, and the do’s and don’t’s for mental health therapists to improve client results with psychiatric medications. She recently authored The Art and Science of Psychopharmacology, published in 2020. Dr. Marie specializes in providing psychiatric consultation, integrating mental health into primary care settings, and psychopharmacology for vulnerable clients with complex needs.

To Register for this event click HERE

This program is co-sponsored by the New Hampshire Psychological Association and the Vermont Psychological Association. NHPA and VPA are approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. NHPA and VPA maintain responsibility for this program and its content.