Suicide Bereavement and Postvention Support – 1 CE Hour

Description

Grief after the suicide of a loved one often contains challenges that comprise risk factors for derailing adaptation to loss. It is important for grief therapists to be aware of these risk factors and to understand how best to address these. Additionally, suicide loss increases the risk of suicide for bereaved individuals. This webinar will provide a general overview of suicide as a public health problem, identify thematic issues common to grief following loss by suicide,  and suggest ways to address these when working with suicide bereaved clients.  

Learning Objectives

1. Identify suicide as a public health problem and define postvention
2. Analyze 3-4 themes in grief after a suicide loss
3. Implement interventional strategies to optimize ability to help individuals bereaved by suicide

Jill Harrington, DSW, LCSW is a licensed clinical social worker in private practice in the Washington DC area specializing in work with trauma and loss. She is Assistant Professor, Adjunct, for the Chicago School of Professional Psychology DC Campus and Part-Time Lecturer for Rutgers University School of Social Work MSW Online Program. She has worked extensively with veteran and military families and served as Senior Director of Field Research for the National Military Family Bereavement Study at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress (CSTS), Bethesda, Maryland and has published several  articles and book chapters on bereavement in military families.  

Continuing Education

American Psychological Association

The Center for Prolonged Grief at Columbia School of Social Work is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Center for Prolonged Grief maintains responsibility for this program and its content. 

Note: Many state boards recognize the APA approval. Please check with your state licensing board.

New York State Education Department

1. NYSED State Board for Psychology recognizes the Center for Prolonged Grief as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists (#PSY-0150).
2. NYSED Board for Social Work recognizes the Center for Prolonged as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers (#SW‐0727).
3. NYSED State Board for Mental Health Practitioners recognizes the Center for Prolonged Grief as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors (#MHC-0104) and licensed marriage and family therapists (#MFT-0080).

Note: Non-NYS social workers, mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, and other licensed professionals, please check with your state licensing board. Many states have recognized our continuing education programs as we are at a CSWE-accredited institution and part of a regionally accredited university.