Current practices for risk assessment, emergency intervention and follow-up with suicidal individuals and supervision of crisis personnel.
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Program Description:
The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is an organization of over 145 crisis centers in the United States that respond to over 60,000 crisis calls a month. This organization works with its centers to bring them the latest in suicide assessment, emergency intervention and follow-up and supervision of crisis workers. These new practices will be presented and discussed.
Speaker:
Lee Judy, LCSW. started his crisis intervention work about 30 years ago as Executive Director of Life Crisis Services in St. Louis where he worked for 15 years. Since then he has been involved in national suicide prevention work with the American Association of Suicidology and now with the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline where he was recently the Director of Standards, Training and Practice and is now focusing his attention to continuity of care issues.
Continuing Professional Education:
We offer the following accreditation which is available during the Web Conference, via a link below the video window: The University of Missouri-Columbia Missouri Institute of Mental Health (MIMH) will be responsible for this program and maintain a record of your continuing education credits earned. The Missouri Institute of Mental Health will award 1 clock hour or 1.2 contact hours (.1 CEU) for this activity.MIMH credit will fulfill Clinical Social Work and Psychologist licensure requirements in the State of Missouri. Attendees with licensure from other states are responsible for seeking appropriate continuing education credit, from their respective boards for completing this program.
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