Suicide Intervention:
Identification, Assessment, Prevention

This presentation will identify warning signs and high risk factors leading to suicidal attempts. Characteristics of potentially suicidal child/youth, specific interventions strategies and skills including legal responsibilities, assessment of risk and what is necessary to help prevent contagion following an actual completion. Develop specific intervention skills with survivors of suicide including organized responses necessary in school settings and the ways grief following suicide differs from grief following non-suicidal losses. Purchase of the TLC book, A Handbook of Intervention Following Suicide or Trauma in Schools is optional, but recommended, and available to attendees at the reduced rate of $20.

Brief Description of Instructional Format:

Didactic presentation provides information and framework related to Suicide Prevention and Intervention. Break out sessions provide participants opportunities to practice strategies presented. Multiple handouts provide checklists and Prevention/Intervention strategies.

Goal:

To provide participants with a working knowledge of factors commonly associated with the suicidal individual so as to better recognize these individuals, assess the risk involved and then intervene using strategies designed to help ameliorate the individuals suicidal reactions.

Session Objectives:

To identify warning signs, characteristics of potentially suicidal child/youth, specific interventions including legal responsibilities and assessment of risk.

Learning Objectives:

Learner will be able to:

• Identify warning signs of the potentially suicidal individual.
• Identify fifteen high risk factors leading to suicidal attempts.
• Identify the professionals’ legal responsibilities when responding to the suicidal individual.
• Identify areas of focus during initial intervention.