This course does not offer CE Credits. The same course is available for purchase and offers 1 CE hour for behavioral health clinicians. See "related products" below.
Suicide is the second leading cause of death among youth.
Nearly 20% of all high school students report having at least one serious thought of suicide in the past year. Among sexual and gender minority students, between 35% and 50% reported thinking about suicide in the past year.
Schools offer a unique opportunity to identify and address youth suicide risk, provide crisis prevention programming, intervene with suicidal students, and address the grief and loss and elevated suicide risk that can occur after a student dies by suicide.
This workshop will provide an overview of the fundamentals of suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention in schools.
Participants will join Dr. Jonathan Singer and gain a foundational understanding of the preferred terminology surrounding suicide, moving beyond stigmatizing language to foster open and supportive communication. They will learn to identify at-risk students, implement evidence-based suicide prevention programs, and conduct thorough suicide risk assessments. This will enable them to recognize the subtle cues and hidden struggles that often precede a crisis, ensuring no cry for help goes unheard.
Through expert guidance, participants will learn how to respond effectively, provide immediate support, and implement postvention strategies that foster healing and resilience within the school community in the aftermath of a tragedy. They will be guided through the long-term process of grief and recovery, ensuring that students, staff, and families receive the ongoing care they need.
By the end of this course, you'll be armed with the knowledge and tools to manage youth suicide crises with compassion and provide culturally sensitive interventions and postvention support.
Together, we can build a world where every student feels seen, heard, and supported—a world where suicide is not the answer.
Enroll in this course today, and take the first step towards becoming a true champion of youth mental health.
Your commitment can save lives.
This is a non-interactive self-study course recorded from a live webinar presented by Dr. Jonathan Singer on August 13, 2021.
Instruction consists of 1 hour of video instruction and a course evaluation.
Upon completion of this training professionals should be able to do the following:
- Distinguish between preferred and problematic suicide-related concepts
- List empirically-based suicide prevention programs
- Identify the 7 components of a safety plan
- Explain how planning and cultural humility can be protective following a student's suicide death.
From the time of registration, you have six months to access the coursework.
Dr. Jonathan B. Singer, Ph.D., LCSW
Dr. Singer is an Associate Professor of Social Work at Loyola University Chicago, President of the American Association of Suicidology and coauthor of the 2015 Routledge text, Suicide in Schools: A Practitioner's Guide to Multi-level Prevention, Assessment, Intervention, and Postvention. He is a two-time winner of the National Association of Social Workers Media Award (2012 and 2016). He was a 2014 Visiting Scholar at Fordham University, the 2017 Lucille N. Austin Scholar at Columbia University, and the 2018 Distinguished Lecturer at Weber State University. Dr. Singer is a well-regarded international speaker who has given hundreds of continuing education workshops, keynote addresses, and presentations on youth suicide, ethics, technology, adolescent development and attachment-based family therapy in the USA, Latin America, and Europe. He is the author of over 75 publications and his research has been featured in national and international media outlets like NPR, BBC, Fox, Time Magazine, and The Guardian. His co-authored article with Arielle Sheftall and John Ackerman about the news media's reporting on the suicide deaths of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain won the prestigious 2019 SDX prize for research on journalism. He is an NASW Expert, Healio Psychiatry Peer Perspective Board member, and on several national youth advisory boards including Sandy Hook Promise, JED Foundation, and the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. A pioneer in the integration of technology and social work, Dr. Singer is an original member of the online suicide prevention social media community #SPSM, the Treasurer for the International Human Services Information Technology Association, and co-lead for the Social Work Grand Challenge initiative "Harness Technology for Social Good". Dr. Singer is the founder and host of the award-winning Social Work Podcast (www.socialworkpodcast.com), the first podcast by and for social workers. The Social Work Podcast has over 40,000 followers on social media, listeners in 208 countries and territories, and a million podcast episode downloads per year. He lives in Evanston, IL with his wife and three children and can be found on Twitter as @socworkpodcast and Facebook at facebook.com/swpodcast.
This course does not offer CE credits, just great content.
The same course is available for purchase and offers 1 CE hour for behavioral health clinicians. See "related products" below.
Participants may request a printed version of their certificate of attendance to be delivered by mail. A shipping/handling fee of $6.95 will be charged per request. Shipping internationally may require an additional charge.
This is a non-interactive, self-study course.
To receive your certificate of attendance you must complete the course in its entirety.
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Participants may request a printed version of their certificate of attendance to be delivered by mail. A shipping/handling fee of $6.95 will be charged per request. Shipping internationally may require an additional charge.
Directions for completing a course can be found by clicking here.
This course is intended for clinicians who provide behavioral health services.
This is a non-interactive self-study course. Teaching methods for this course include recorded lectures, videos, a post-test, and a course evaluation.
This course was recorded 8/13/21
