Empowerment Planning: Suicide Prevention Safety Planning FOR WJCS STAFF ONLY

Dates. 10/4/21

Time: 9:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.

Enrollment Limited to: 20 Contact Hrs: 1.5 CEU’s: 1.5

This training will review the clinical utility of suicide prevention safety planning and the added relevance of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, a contextual behavioral approach, for suicide prevention. The training will specifically describe how an ACT approach can inform steps in the safety planning process when it comes to understanding the emotions and values of high-risk patients. Lastly, this training will explore the relevance of repertoire expansion in the context of crisis management.

Method: Lecture; discussion.

Learning Objectives:

• Select questions to ask patients based on present moment processes to develop clear and specific safety plans.
• Understand the drawbacks to relying exclusively on coping skills for the second step of the safety planning process.
• Identify the relevance of analogical and metaphorical questions that expand the possibilities for values-consistent behavior when developing the safety plan.

Instructor: Jonathan Weinstein, Ph.D. Suicide Prevention Coordinator, REACH VET Coordinator, and ACT-D Regional Trainer, VISN 2 at the VA Hudson Valley Health Care System, & Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, New York Medical College

Location: Zoom

Westchester Jewish Community Services is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0101, and by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work
as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW0067.

Please note: To receive CE credits, one must attend the entirety of the class. Partial credit will not be awarded to those who attend only a portion of the class. Therefore, late arrival or an early departure of greater than 10 minutes constitutes not attending a class in its entirety. To document attendance, participants must sign in and out of the class and complete an evaluation at the end of each class.

Refund Policy: Refundable up to 2 weeks prior to start date.

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