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PRACTICAL SKILLS FOR ASSESSING SAFETY WHEN CLIENTS PRESENT WITH CONCERNS FOR SUICIDE

Designed to Increase Your Confidence and Competence

Practical Skills for Assessing client safety: Welcome

THIS TRAINING IS FOR YOU IF:

  • You are a mental health provider looking to learn how to effectively assess client safety when they present with suicidal thoughts.

  • You are are new to the mental health field or want a refresher on how to best assess client safety.

  • You want to gain PRACTICAL SKILLS for assessing client safety.

  • You are feeling uncertain and want to feel more confident in using these skills.

  • You want to learn in community.

  • You want a safe place to learn and ask your questions.

Practical Skills for Assessing client safety: Services
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WHAT YOU WILL LEAVE WITH:

  • Understanding of how to differentiate between warning signs and risk factors of suicidality.

  • Practical skills for managing your own anxiety and overwhelm when engaging with clients when they are feeling suicidal.

  • How to effectively and efficiently use evidence-based assessment tools during your assessment.

  • Learn the GOLD STANDARD for assessing client safety.

  • How create an effective safety plan.

  • How to engage with friends/family/loved ones of the client when they are feeling suicidal.

  • What to do NEXT and how best to follow-up with your client during the next sessions.

Practical Skills for Assessing client safety: About

INSTRUCTOR: HEATHER AYERS-CLUFF, LCSW, PPSC

I have extensive experience in assessing needs, risks and developing protocols for high-risk situations. I have managed behavioral health services in school-based health centers in various middle schools and conducts risk and safety assessment trainings for school staff and medical providers throughout various organizations. Additionally, I worked at UCLA Health as a Clinical Advisor in out-patient mental health where I conducted trainings for over 140 primary care physicians on how to effectively screen patients for suicide within the primary care setting. I have created and implemented a triage protocol to support individuals, adolescents, and families in connecting with the appropriate level of care. Prior to that, I worked at Children's Hospital Los Angeles in the Emergency Department where I evaluated teens and young adults who presented with mental health crises. My extensive experience with individuals in high-risk situations that involve suicidal and homicidal ideation allow me to share and support other practitioners in developing best practice protocols for their clients.

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