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The course: Suicide and Self-Harm in Children and Adolescents: Assessment Tools and Treatment Approaches to Help Young People Heal by Tony L. Sheppard

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Join child and adolescent clinician and suicide/self-harm expert Dr. Tony Sheppard for this compelling 90-minute recording designed to help you identify and intervene when working with young people engaging in self-harm or expressing suicidal ideation.

You’ll learn:

• The crucial differences between suicidality and non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI)
• The DO’s and DON’Ts of responding to NSSI and suicidal ideation 
• How to build a multi-systemic approach for helping young people who are suffering
• And more!

This training is a must-attend for anyone working with kids and adolescents – purchase today!

1. Utilize screening and assessment tools to determine which clients or students present the highest risk for suicide.
2. Appraise the efficacy of utilizing a multi-systemic approach for supporting suicidal and self-harming children and adolescents.
3. Integrate alternative coping strategies to help self-injuring clients or students manage triggering situations without engaging in self-harm.

Suicide, Suicidality, and Non-Suicidal Self Injury (NSSI): Separate but Related

• Similar concepts but with crucial differences
• Why a multi-systemic approach is necessary 
• 6 key components of treatment

Non-Suicidal Self Injury (NSSI)

• Risk factors, course, and types of self-injury
• What motivates someone to self-injure?
• NSSI screening and assessment tools
• 4 factor model of NSSI
• The do’s and don’ts of NSSI intervention

Suicide and Suicidality

• Risk factors and important terminology
• Individual and relational factors
• Ideation, Plan, Intent, Means
• Suicide assessment tools
• Safety planning do’s and don’ts