Foster Care Training

Virtual Instructor Led Training
2 Days

The workshop will encourage participates to explore their own feelings towards suicide and suicidal youth. It will address common myths and perceptions about suicide and suicidal behavior in children and adolescents.

The workshop will cover suicide statistics, trauma, and suicide theory with an emphasis on Thomas Joiners model: The Interpersonal Theory of Suicide. Risk factors, warning signs and protective factors will be reviewed for both children and adolescents. Participants will gain an understanding of how precepting events, risk factors, and warnings signs come together to create suicide risk.

Participants will learn how to conduct a suicide risk assessment. Screening tools for suicide risk will be discussed and how they can be used in supporting the clinician in conducting a suicide risk assessment. Intervention techniques will be discussed with examples of how they can be used in children and adolescents.