Clinical Updates Colloquium
5th Annual Clinical Updates Colloquium
January 8, 2021 -- Virtual
8:30 a.m.-4 p.m.
Continuing Education Credits
A maximum of six (6) continuing education credits are available for social workers, marriage and family therapists, and professional counselors (3 credits for the morning only, 3 for the afternoon only, or 6 for the full day).
- Suicide Prevention - 9 a.m. to noon (3 CEs for suicide prevention available)
- Clinical Updates Colloquium - 1 to 4 p.m. (3 CEs for ethics available)
REGISTRation is now closed.
SCHEDULE
Morning Session - Suicide Prevention (3 CEs available)
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Helping the Suicidal Person: Moving Beyond Fear and Defensive Practice
Client suicide is what mental health professionals fear most in their practice. As a result, many clinicians resort prematurely to emergency interventions or hospitalization, or conduct the suicide risk assessment in an interrogatory or checklist fashion to meet the clinician’s need for information and risk management, not the client’s need for connection and understanding. The risk assessment and safety planning process should be therapeutic, client-centered, and collaborative, while also covering essential details about suicide risk. To that end, this presentation will cover methods for eliciting sensitive information; employing a client-centered, narrative approach in the risk assessment interview; gathering important information about suicidal thoughts, planning, and behavior; estimating acute and chronic risk for suicide; avoiding hospitalization and emergency intervention whenever possible; and creating a safety plan collaboratively with the client.
Presenter:
Stacey Freedenthal, Ph.D., LCSW
Afternoon Session - Telehealth (3 ethics CEs available)
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Telehealth: Ethical Implications for Sustaining and Thriving in Virtual Clinical Practice
This workshop will offer participants an opportunity to learn about Telehealth Counseling as a treatment modality. In light of the fact that this mode of healthcare delivery is being adapted as a standard platform for care, it is important for clinicians from many human service professions to understand the basics and be prepared to go beyond that into excellence in service delivery to our clients. This workshop will also review the relevant ethical principles and how they apply to the provision of services in this modality.
Presenter:
Kim Cook, MSW, MA, LCSW-C
Download the agenda here
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES
Stacey Freedenthal
Stacey Freedenthal, Ph.D., LCSW, writes and teaches extensively about suicide assessment and intervention. Her book, Helping the Suicidal Person: Tips and Techniques for Professionals, was published in fall 2017 by Routledge. Her website, SpeakingOfSuicide.com has received more than 5 million visits since 2013. She also has published scholarly articles about the measurement of suicidal thoughts and intent, youth’s help-seeking when suicidal, and other topics related to suicide risk. Dr. Freedenthal is an associate professor at the University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work, and she has a small psychotherapy and consulting practice specializing in assessing and treating people at risk for suicide. She earned an MSW from the University of Texas and a doctorate in social work at Washington University in St. Louis.
Kim Cook
Kim has clinical and administrative background in outpatient mental health, primarily in faith-based agencies. She is the Director of Elu: Counseling, Consulting, and Coaching with offices in TN and NC and she was the former Executive Director of CentrePointe Counseling, Inc. which has offices in MD, DC, and VA. She does consulting work with non-profits and has a certificate in Non-Profit Leadership and has been a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives. She offers leadership coaching especially to those in non-profit organizations. In counseling, Kim works with families, couples, individuals, and groups on a variety of issues, including relationships, mental health, spiritual growth, behavioral problems, trauma, parenting, adoption/foster care, and crisis response. She works with children of all ages and is trained in play therapy. She also has extensive experience working with teens, adults, and specific training working with clergy. Kim has been using telehealth as a modality for three years and is paneled with several major health insurance companies as an in-office and telehealth provider. She is trained in CISM and does critical incident debriefings and organizational crisis support. Kim maintains her LCSW licensure in Maryland, Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia, and North Carolina.
sustainable lending library
The Department of Social Work is working to develop a Sustainable Lending Library that will facilitate access to educational materials/resources throughout social work students’ educational career. The library will be operated through the department and provide a lending service of essential educational materials to our students. Our initial fundraising goal is $ 55,000. The tentative initiation date for the fund is Spring 2021.