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Free Postvention Training
Last Minute Opportunity for our New Mexico
Suicide Prevention Coalition Members!
The
Office of School and Adolescent Health 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
February 7th 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.
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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
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