Last Minute Opportunity for our New
Mexico Suicide Prevention Coalition Members!
Office of School and Adolescent is sponsoring a Postvention training
by Dr. Frank Campbell for our
SAMSHA grantees. We have a few extra seats available and
would like to offer the training to our advocates. The training will be held in Albuquerque on
Friday, February 8th from 8- 4:00.
The training is
free!
For Registration and location contact Norma
Rey Vazquez de Houdek at 505-222-8678 or norma.vasquez@state.nm.us .
Course
description:
Suicide Prevention,
Crisis Theory and Self Harm behavior
·
The scope of the problem
Suicide is a cause of death that is ripe with paradoxes that can
confuse clinicians in all clinical settings. This portion will highlight the demographic variations of
suicide using statistics from US and New York State in an effort to help
participants interpret the data in a meaningful way. So that each participant can stay
abreast of current information regarding suicide, internet resources will be
provided.
·
Crisis Theory
Presentation of an established theory will demonstrate how a self
defined crisis can generate interpersonal dynamics which may result in
suicide as an option for any individual. A coping metaphor will also be presented to help
participants determine how well they are coping with the stress in their own
lives.
·
A paradigm for understanding suicidal
behavior
Suicidal behavior can be so difficult to identify. A four way grid that combines
behavioral intent and outcome will be used as a model for distinguishing
between suicidal and other behaviors.
Current suicide theory will be discussed highlighting lethality
versus reversibility and intent and capability. Attention will be given to self injury and cutting
because of the growing prevalence of such behavioracross all
ages.
Lunch on your own
Suicide Intervention,
postvention and traumatic loss
·
What to say and
when
By considering what we fear when we suspect a client is considering
suicide, we can overcome some of the common problems in assessment. Intervention creates challenges that
can confuse the most skilled of clinicians. Honest and open input from
participants will be encouraged.
·
Postvention and traumatic
loss
The loss of a client from any cause is difficult and the loss is
compounded when that loss is by suicide, with implications for the
clinician's future practice.
This portion of the workshop will provide insights into how suicide
impacts everyone in a community including those who were involved in
treating the deceased.
·
Postvention as
prevention
For
those most closely connected to a loss by suicide, those most profoundly
impacted, postvention services are imperative. The presenter has developed an Active Postvention Model
(APM) that has become the most replicated suicide outreach model implemented
to date. Communities both
nationally and internationally have implemented the LOSS Team approach or a
variation of this APM.
Participants will realize the need for each person to assume a role
in postvention whenever and wherever suicide occurs
Biographical information
about the Presenter: Dr.
Campbell serves as Executive Director of The Office of Clinical Research and
Consultation, and The Crisis Center Foundation in Baton Rouge, Louisiana,
United Sates of America.
He is a
past president of the American Association of Suicidology, past social
worker of the year for Louisiana, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and
is certified in Thanatology. He has delivered over one hundred national and
international presentations and trainings on his Active Postvention Model
(APM) as well as other related workshops. The Active Postvention Model (APM)
he developed known as The LOSS Team was featured in his third documentary
for the Discovery Channel which aired September 2004. In 2006 he contributed a chapter on the role of the mental
health provider following suicide for the American Psychiatric Association's
Textbook of Suicide Assessment and
Management. In addition to
his published articles, he is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of
the Magazine Advancing Suicide
Prevention and is presently gathering research for a book he is writing
on the use of metaphors for healing from sudden and traumatic loss (working
title: The Canyon of Why).
Frank R. Campbell, Ph.D., LCSW,C.T.,
Executive Director,
The Office of Clinical Research and Consultation,
and The Crisis Center
Foundation
frankcampbell@brcic.org