Description
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IN PERSON
Monday March 18th, 2024 – 9:30am to 11:30am ET
35 Evansburg Rd, Collegeville PA, 19426
Suicide Behaviors & Systemic Family Therapy
Pinky Patel, LMFT & Jennifer Benjamin, PhD, LPC
About This Course: The competent evaluation of suicide behaviors requires Assessment, Intervention and Monitoring (AIM). This introductory/beginner level program will demonstrate how the professional creates safety and uses family engagement to promote healing. Using a recorded role play case participants will identify how the social ecology of the family aids in defining second order change in the family.
*There is no known conflict of interest or commercial support for the CE program, presentation, or instructor.
Learning Objectives:
- Define how Assessing, Intervening, and Monitoring (AIM) is applied to suicidal behaviors in a family therapy.
- Differentiate first order change to complete an assessment of safety, from second order change to block the negative patterns of interaction creating the crisis response.
ADA: Contact Jennifer Benjamin for accommodations
Intended Audience:
Social Work, Psychologists, Mental Health Professionals, Marriage & Family Therapists, Counselors, and Human Service Providers.
Instructional Level:
Introductory / Beginner Level
*Attendees should have experience evaluating life threatening behaviors.
CE Credit Hours are available:
2.0 ACE CE Credit Hours- Clinical
Cost: $40.00 includes program and CE credits.
*Maximum of 20 participants
Policies/Refunds/Cancellation:
ACE Continuing Education Policies (DARFT FOR ACE APPLICATION)
Completion Requirements:
This is an interaction course. Participants must sign in and out, attend the entire session, & participate in all discussions/groups, to receive CE credits and certificate. Assignments- None.
Registration deadline is Friday March 15th, 2024, 5pm ET
You will receive a reminder email regarding the event the day before.
Agenda
9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Attendance Sign in and out
9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Introduction of case study, social ecology & life-threatening behaviors, Teaching Assessment, Intervention, and Monitor (AIM), differentiating first and second order change in family therapy to unbalance the structure and address interactional pattern sustaining the crisis.
10:30 a.m. – 11:10 a.m. Watch video small groups identify which best practices for assessing suicide where used, Watch video and large discussion identification of AIM incorporated into second order change.
11:10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Apply case study to AIM and documentation best practices.
11:30 a.m. – Complete evaluation
References
Brodsky, B. S., Spruch-Feiner, A., & Stanley, B. (2018). The zero suicide model: applying evidence-based suicide prevention practices to clinical care. Frontiers in psychiatry, 9, 33.
Clossey, L., Simms, S., Hu, C., Hartzell, J., Duah, P., & Daniels, L. (2018). A pilot evaluation of the Rapid Response Program: A home based family therapy. Community Mental Health Journal, 54(3), 302-311
Brown, G. K., Brenner, L. A., Galfalvy, H. C., Currier, G. W., Knox, K. L., Chaudhury, S. R., Bush, A. L., & Green, K. L. (2018). Comparison of the Safety Planning Intervention With Follow-up vs Usual Care of Suicidal Patients Treated in the Emergency Department. JAMA psychiatry, 75(9), 894–900. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2018.1776
Flores-Kanter, P. E., Alesandrini, C., & Alvarado, J. M. (2023). Columbia suicide severity rating scale: evidence of construct validity in Argentinians. Behavioral Sciences, 13(3), 198.
Jones, C. W. (2019). Setting the stage for change: An eco-systemic approach to in-home family-based treatment (2nd ed.). The Center for Family Based Training.
Labouliere, C. D., Stanley, B., Lake, A. M., & Gould, M. S. (2020). Safety Planning on Crisis Lines: Feasibility, Acceptability, and Perceived Helpfulness of a Brief Intervention to Mitigate Future Suicide Risk. Suicide & life-threatening behavior, 50(1), 29–41. https://doi.org/10.1111/sltb.12554
Ronquillo, L., Minassian, A., Vilke, G. M., & Wilson, M. P. (2012). Literature-based recommendations for suicide assessment in the emergency department: a review. The Journal of emergency medicine, 43(5), 836-842.
Instructors
Ms. Pinky Patel has a Masters of Arts Degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from LaSalle University, and is a licensed marriage and family therapist. She is an approved American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) supervisor. Currently, she is a Program Director at Creative Health Services overseeing an in-home systemic family therapy program, with 24/7 crisis response, severally emotionally disturbed youth in life altering circumstances and life-threatening behaviors. She is the Associate Director of the Philadelphia Child and Family Therapy Training Center where she oversees organizational development, provides executive consultation for program implementation, clinical training, licensure supervision, and continuing education courses. Ms. Patel has several specialty certificates. She is a Certified Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapist and has a certificate of training in both Family Based Mental Health Services & Trauma Informed Yoga Practice. She is also a community trainer for QPR (suicide prevention training). Formerly, she was the Director for the post-graduate certificate program in ecosystemic structural family therapy (ESFT). This program was accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Marriage and Family Therapy Education (COAMFTE) of the AAMFT.
Dr. Jennifer Benjamin received her doctorate degree (PhD) in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from Capella University and a Master of Arts degree in Counseling Psychology from Immaculata University. She is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) an independent practitioner in the greater Philadelphia Region. Dr. Benjamin is the Clinical Fidelity Specialist for the Philadelphia Child and Family Therapy Training Center. Her responsibilities include oversite of continuing education programs, curriculum development, researching the ESFT model and assessment tools, and developing the organizational practices to ensure the integration of social ecology and family culture across all trainings, supervisions, case conceptualizations, and clinical consultations. As a former Clinical Director Dr. Benjamin led a comprehensive Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) program for youth (11–18 years old) in Pennsylvania, and an in-home systemic family therapy program in Delaware for severally emotionally disturbed youth in life altering circumstances and life-threatening behaviors. While in this role she provided program implementation/development/training, systemic supervision, emergency consultation, oversaw the doctoral practicum students, parent training, and site management of treatment outcomes. Finally, as a former adjunct Dr. Benjamin taught in the Graduate Counseling Program and the Undergraduate Psychology Program at Rosemont College.
CONTINUING EDUCATION PROVIDER INFORMATION
Philadelphia Child and Family Therapy Training Center, Inc., Provider #1234, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 04/04/2018-04/04/2021. Social workers completing this course receive 2.00 clinical continuing education credits.
JURSIDICATION INFORMATION
Jennifer Benjamin, PhD, LPC
CE Program Administrator & Continuing Education Director,
Peter McCall, LCSW
Social Work Consultant
Philadelphia Child and Family Therapy Training Center, Inc.
215-266-6157
PO Box 21287, Philadelphia PA, 19114,