January 2009 Events
1/21/2009 - 1/21/2009
Assessing and Managing Suicide Risk: Core Competencies for Mental Health Professionals
Wheeler Clinic, Inc.
Wheeler Clinic
Plainville, CT
This one day workshop for mental health professionals focuses on the core competencies for assessing and managing suicide risk.
Event Contact:
Jan Hayes
February 2009 Events
- 2/2/2009 - 2/2/2009
Assessing & Managing Suicide Risk: Core Competencies for Mental Health Professionals
Adcare Educational Institute, Inc. & MDPH
Clarion Hotel & Conference Center
West Springfield, MA
This one day workshop for mental health professionals highlights the core competencies essential for assessing and managing suicide risk.
Event Contact:
Janice Ventre
- 2/5/2009 - 2/6/2009
Survivors of Suicide Loss Support Group Training
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
Denver
Denver, CO
AFSP offers a nationwide training program to help survivors of suicide loss learn the "how-to's" of creating and facilitating a support group. This two-day program is offered several times a year in cities across the nation and combines lecture, interactive discussion and role-playing with feedback. It's appropriate both for survivors who would like to start a new group, as well as those who currently facilitate a group and would like to increase their knowledge and skills. Mental health professionals are also welcome. Visit www.afsp.org/facilitatortraining for further information and applications for upcoming trainings.
Event URL:
http://www.afsp.org/facilitatortraining
Event Contact:
Rebecca Thorp
212-363-3500 x33
- 2/12/2009
NOPCAS National Organization for People of Color Against Suicide
A Call-To-Action: Suicide Awareness and Prevention for Communities of Color
planning meeting on health care disparity and minority suicide
February 12, 2008 (suicide prevention month)
University of Massachusetts Boston
McCormack Building, Ryan Lounge
100 Morrissey Blvd, Boston, MA 02125
8am – 5pm
EVENT DESCRIPTION ––
The Health Education and Learning Program (HELP) for Black Males at the University of Massachusetts Boston and the National Organization for People of Color Against Suicide (NOPCAS) will convene a planning meeting of clinicians, health care professionals, policy leaders, educators and community partners on Thursday, February 12, 2009, from 8:00am to 5:00pm, in UMass Boston’s Ryan Lounge. A Call-To-Action: Suicide Awareness and Prevention for Communities of Color, is a grass-roots effort designed to raise awareness of the health care disparity concerning minorities and suicide, and to set the agenda for a full-scale conference in the fall of 2009 –– Affirming Life.
A Call-To-Action: Suicide Awareness and Prevention for Communities of Color will spotlight presentations and discussions by noted professionals in the field, and will engage attendees in roundtable discussions to develop strategies addressing the health care disparity of minority suicide and increasing suicide awareness and prevention efforts for specific target audiences. A consolidation of the individual working-group strategies will yield a comprehensive working document. The outcome of this planning meeting will uncover gaps in the research, develop and identify resources for communication materials, and set the agenda for a fall 2009 conference –– Affirming Life.
Senator Bill Owens, rtd, HELP Director and Donna H. Barnes, PhD, NOPCAS President and Executive Director, along with Honorary Co-Chairs Alvin F. Poussaint, MD, Harvard Medical School, Judge Bakers Children’s Center; J. Keith Motley, PhD, Chancellor, University of Massachusetts Boston; and Diane Patrick, Esq, First Lady, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, invite your attendance and participation at the February 12th Call-To-Action. Continuing Education Units (CEU) are available. For more information and to register contact HELP:
email: HELP.affirmlife@gmail.com
phone: 617-287-7138 fax: 617-287-6799
- 2/26/2009 - 2/26/2009
Assessing and Managing Suicide Risk: Core Competencies for Mental Health Professionals
Adcare Educational Institute, Inc. & MDPH
Crowne Plaza, Worcester
Worcester, MA
This one day workshop for mental health professionals highlights the core competencies essential for assessing and managing suicide risk.
Event Contact:
Janice Ventre
March 2009 Events
April 2009 Events
- 4/28-5/2 2009
The Contextual-Conceptual Therapy Training
"Going Deeper into the Suicidal Experience with the Suicidal Patient"
With CCT Founder and Creator:
Fredric Matteson
Barcelona, SPAIN
Web page: http://www.contextualconceptualtherapy.com/
About the CCT Training Retreat/Workshop:
Join the Contextual-Conceptual Therapy (CCT) Team, and a small group of fellow clinicians, in this intimate setting in old Barcelona to study, experience, and understand this innovative, clinically-proven, approach to helping the suicidal patient understand the phenomenon of suicide and their own internal process to offer them a new pathway out of suicide.
CCT was developed by Fredric Matteson over the past 22 years through therapeutic dialogue with over 15,000 suicidal patients in a clinical setting. By using maps, models, and metaphors, and other experiential methods, CCT offers suicidal patients a new contextual perspective to bypass the entrenched internal logic that binds them. Learn the forms of indirect communication needed to circumvent the fierce intelligence and resistance which sustains this psychological and emotional trap.
We will be showing how conceptualizing the suicidal patient's unique perspective and metaphoric language, allows the clinician to communicate with them inside of the patient's own experience to bridge that gap of resistance and therefore increase the patient's opportunity to effect positive self-growth and transformation.
Professional Testimonials about CCT:
"There has never been a therapy specifically for suicide, until today."
David Olive, Ph.D.
LEAD PSYCHOLOGIST, NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE OF ENGLAND
"..it adds something that I think is hard to come by: helping the patient be in touch with his or her own heart and authenticity. I cannot recommend this approach highly enough."
Neil Baker, M.D.
HEALTHCARE IMPROVEMENT CONSULTANT, NEIL BAKER CONSULTING (former) CHIEF OF CENTRAL MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES, CLINICAL IMPROVEMENT AND EDUCATION, GROUP HEALTH COOPERATIVE (GHC) OF PUGET SOUND
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