Crisis Intervention Training: Evidenced-Based Strategies for Assessing Lethality, Collaborative Engagement, & Linkage to Community Resources
Trainer: Kristin Dempsey, LMFT, LPCC, EdD
August 9 & 11, 2022 PST
9 am to 12 pm
Virtual Training
The Crisis
Intervention Training workshop will address how to use evidence-based strategies for assessing lethality and
how to initiate collaborative conversations to engage at-risk individuals in
safety planning and linkage to care. Building
community resources and creating support networks for staff and community
members will also be addressed. In addition to learning the theory and skills
for how to apply evidence-based crisis-assessment and engagement strategies in
high-risk situations, participants will also practice using the skills to
address various crisis issues currently encountered in behavioral health
settings including:
1. Mental health and addiction crisis on the streets,
2. Crisis
among adolescents struggling with self-harm behaviors, depression
and anxiety;
3. Individual distress following environmental disasters, such as
forest fires, flooding, and landslides.
Target Audience: Social Workers, Clinicians, Case Managers, Counselors, and Team Leaders.
Do you work with clients who experience one crisis after another?
Do you feel overwhelmed by the sheer number of crises experienced in your community and those seeking services from you?
Do you wish for effective ways to assess for crises, engage your clients, and put a plan of action in place?
Please join us to learn more about using strategies that are effective in addressing crises in our communities.
Objectives:
1. Apply at
least one motivational interviewing micro skill to increase treatment
engagement among persons in crisis.
2. Recognize 10
or more critical warning signs when assessing for suicide risk among persons in
crisis.
3. Articulate 10
or more critical assessment questions when assessing for lethality toward self
and others among individuals in crisis.
4. Discuss four
or more mental health risk factors reported in current research to be unique
among adolescents and young adults who have grown up in the age of social media
and during the pandemic.
5. Identify
three strategies that are based in evidence-based practices for increasing
treatment engagement among individuals living and using substances on the
streets.
6. Construct a six-point safety plan to mitigate self-harm and help stabilize individuals in crisis.
7. Describe the
five skill areas reported in current research to be critical for working
effectively with survivors of wildfires and other natural disasters.
This experiential workshop will include vignettes and breakout rooms for enhanced learning experience.
Approval for 5.5 CEs.
Psychologists : Psychologists - APA: California
Institute for Behavioral Health Solutions is approved by the American
Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for
psychologists. California Institute for Behavioral Health Solutions
maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
RN: CIBHS is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP 17140 for 5.5 contact hours.
LMFT, LPCC, LEP and/or LCSW:
CIBHS is an approved provider for the California Association of
Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT) to sponsor continuing education.
CIBHS maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content .
Course meets the qualifications for 5.5 hours of continuing education
credit for LMFTs, LPCCs, LEPs and/or LCSWs as required by the California
Board of Behavioral Sciences.(Provider Number 70799)
All
activities in this training are offered for continuing education credit
excluding any breaks. CE Certificates of Completion will be emailed
within two weeks of processing your completed online evaluation.
For
questions, comments, or grievances about this CE course content or
delivery, or to request special accommodations, please email Theresa
Ferrini at tferrini@cibhs.org
There is no known commercial support for this webinar.
For all other TFCBT questions, please contact Gayaneh Karapetian, gkarapetian@cibhs.org.
Cancellations for continuing education must
be received in writing within 48 hours after the first day of the
training to receive a refund. All refunds will be subject to a $10.00
administration fee.