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Teen Suicide Prevention: Counselors and Mental Health Professionals

…f them do not feel they receive adequate training in the assessment treatment and management of suicidal clients. (Link to Glendon suicide page for resources) Training Opportunities for Mental Health Professionals: Online: Something to Lose: An Interview with Lisa Firestone, Ph.D. (Psychotherapy.net – CE’s available) Suicide: What Every Mental Health Professional Needs to Know (CE’s available) For a full list of resources to help you as a practiti…

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Adolescent Suicide: Speaking Up for Our Children

…ources and help. The following facts can help facilitate your knowledge of teen suicide. Quick facts for parents about adolescent suicide: 1. Suicide is the 3rd leading cause of death among children and adolescents in the United States ages 15-24, according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). 2. Approximately 3% of adolescents engage in medically serious suicide attempts. These suicide attempts often predate serious, overlooked, or…

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The Do’s and Don’ts of Suicide Prevention

…ion Advice Page Related Articles: Coping Suggestions for the Suicidal Person Helper Tasks – How You Can Help Someone Who’s Suicidal Suicide: The Warning Signs Suicide: How You Can Help Someone at Risk Busting the Myths About Suicide…

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Survivors: Those Who Have Lost Someone to Suicide

…ors of Suicide Grief Support for Survivors of Suicide Friends For Survival Suicide Prevention Action Network American Foundation for Suicide Prevention Compassionate Friends Crisis, Grief and Healing: Articles of Interest and Forum Fierce Goodbye: From a Documentary Focusing on Survivors Grief Net: Grief Support HeartBeat – Peer Support Group The Shaken Tree: Families Living With Mental Illness Fatal Mistakes: Families Touched by Suicide (DVD) Fro…

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Lisa Firestone, Ph.D.

…Relationships and Conquer Your Critical Inner Voice. Visit her site at www.drlisa*]}*firestone.com. Articles on the Self As Iraq Ends, A New Battle with PTSD Begins With 40,000 men and women returning home from Iraq in the next few months, we must greet them with the tools to combat the emotional wounds of battle. Developing resilience can truly break the internal cycle that leaves so many individuals chronically stuck in a traumatized state. . The ‘A…

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Suicide Prevention: Tools to Save a Life

…ive you tools to help those suffering. In this presentation, suicidologist Dr. Lisa Firestone will draw from the most up-to-date research on suicide prevention and share current best practices to help save a life. This FREE webinar will: Discuss warning signs for suicide Outline steps you can take to help someone considering suicide Give you language to talk about suicide Provide resources that can help save a life Ordering Information Once ordere…

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Suicide: What Therapists Need to Know

…alidated treatments. This Webinar will: (1) provide the latest findings on warning signs and risk factors for suicide, (2) offer a conceptual model and a developmental perspective on the dynamics underlying suicide, (3) explore the internal struggle, the ambivalence of suicide, through expert interviews and insight provided by 3 survivors of very lethal suicide attempts, (4) address both objective assessment and the formation of clinical judgment,…

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National Suicide Prevention Week – What You Can Do to Save a Life

…ational Suicide Prevention Week starts on Sep. 4 and culminates with World Suicide Prevention Day on Sep. 10. Here are valuable resources you can view to raise awareness about this public health problem and help save lives: Take a moment to learn about suicide risk factors and warning signs. To further spread awareness, click the “share” icon on the top right of these pages to post to your social media accounts. Attend Webinars on suicide preventi…

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Live Through This: ​​​​​​Using True Stories to Help Stop Suicide

…e 10th leading cause of death in the U.S. Over 1 million Americans attempt suicide annually, 122.9 of us die by suicide per day, and over 44,965 of us die by suicide every year. Live Through This is a series of portraits and true stories of suicide attempt survivors nationwide whose identities span a large breadth of background, ethnicity, faith, gender presentation, sexual orientation, profession, age, and experience. Suicide does not discriminat…

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Saving Lives From Suicide: Two-Part CE Webinar

…uicidal ideation and behavior. This two-part CE webinar with suicidologist Dr. Lisa Firestone will provide an opportunity for therapists to become familiar with risk assessment and effective crisis interventions, as well as empirically validated, evidence-based treatments for suicide that are fast becoming the standard of care.   Learning Objectives: Discuss how to implement state of the art crisis intervention for suicidal patients Identify a num…

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