The Suicidal Child and Adolescent Part 3 of 3: Crisis Management, Assessment, Postvention, Suicide and the Law

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All Level
2 NBCC Hours
Estimated 2-Hour Workload
Accessible for 180 days

Description

David Capuzzi, PhD , NCC, LPC, presents this 120 minute webinar. This program is designed to provide counselors—those just beginning and those with experience—with the information they need to begin the crisis management and suicide assessment process when working with a potentially suicidal client to ensure subsequent counseling/treatment plans are as accurate as possible. In addition, the program will address how to facilitate postvention efforts with the survivors of attempts and completions. Discussion, question/answer, and self-assessment opportunities integrated into the pre-recorded 2-hour time allotment ensure the content is thoroughly presented and understood.

What You Will Learn

Provide mental health counselors/professionals with the information they need for crisis management, suicide assessment, and postvention needed to develop counseling/treatment plans for the potentially suicidal child and adolescent and the survivors of suicide attempts and completions
Present and discuss suicide and the law
Present suicide scenarios so participants can assess the degree of risk for an attempt/completion and obtain practice in developing initial counseling/treatment plans

Faculty Bio

Dr. David Capuzzi

David Capuzzi, PhD, NCC, LPC, is a counselor educator and a senior core faculty in community mental health counseling at Walden University and professor emeritus at Portland State University. Previously, he served as an affiliate professor in the Department of Counselor Education, Counseling Psychology, and Rehabilitation Services at Pennsylvania State University and Scholar in Residence in Counselor Education at Johns Hopkins University. He is past president of the American Counseling Association (ACA), formerly the American Association for Counseling and Development, and past Chair of both the ACA Foundation and the ACA Insurance Trust.

A frequent speaker and keynoter at professional conferences and institutes, Dr. Capuzzi has also consulted with a variety of school districts and community agencies interested in initiating prevention and intervention strategies for adolescents at risk for suicide. He has facilitated the development of suicide prevention, crisis management, and postvention programs in communities throughout the United States; provides training on the topics of youth at risk and grief and loss; and serves as an invited adjunct faculty member at other universities as time permits.

An ACA fellow, he is the first recipient of ACA’s Kitty Cole Human Rights Award and also a recipient of the Leona Tyler Award in Oregon. In 2010, he received ACA’s Gilbert and Kathleen Wrenn Award for a Humanitarian and Caring Person. In 2011, he was named a Distinguished Alumni of the College of Education at Florida State University and, in 2016, he received the Locke/Paisley Mentorship award from the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision. In 2018 he received the Mary Smith Arnold Anti-Oppression Award from the Counselors for Social Justice, a division of ACA as well as the U.S. President’s Lifetime Achievement Award. He is the 2019 recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision.

Accreditation

Walden University’s Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 4546. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Walden University’s Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Successful completion of this micro-course provides 2 NBCC clock hours; partial credit will not be offered.

ACEP contact information:

100 Washington Ave. S Suite 1210, Minneapolis MN, 55401
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.waldenu.edu