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Children (ages 5-12) will use fun activities such as reading, drawing, singing, and playing to learn how to deal with issues affecting their age group such as bullying, emotional regulation, respect, and effective communication. Teens (ages 13-17) will experience sharing with their peers in a close and safe environment, and gain skills on how to communicate effectively, understand and control emotions, develop leadership skills, coping skills, a healthy relationship with technology, and much more.

Our exclusive curriculum has been developed by licensed therapists and psychiatrists who are passionate about teaching children and youth the proven skills to help them achieve success in every way personal and unique to them. Our workshops are designed to provide the essential knowledge and everyday skill sets and tools needed to develop better habits, and higher self-esteem to help them flourish and succeed in life. This is an exceptional opportunity.

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Suicide Risk Assessment for the Mental Health Professional

Suicide Risk Assessment for the Mental Health Professional

2.5 FREE CEU's 

Event Details

Cost: Free – registration is required
CEU credit: Free  

When: April 17, 2015 9am-11:30am

Application has been submitted to the NASW-MO Chapter and is pending for approval of 2.5 Social Work clock hours. This program has been approved for 2.5 CEU clock hours for counselors.

Sponsored by Community Council of St. Charles County and Alternative Behavioral Care.
Workshop and CEU credit is free due to sponsorship by Alternative Behavioral Care.

Counselors and social workers who work directly with clients will, sooner or later, encounter suicidal individuals. They may also have the unfortunate experience of losing a client to suicide. Many suicides can be prevented; however, few mental health professionals have had any formal training to assist them in saving lives. Nor do most have an organized tool and methodology at their disposal to ensure that they do not "miss" identifying the at-risk individual. This program will seek to fill that knowledge gap and provide a risk assessment process by which mental health professionals will be able to be fully equipped to protect both themselves from liability and their clients from suicide.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify key epidemiological factors related to suicide
• Compare and contrast the concepts of predictability vs. foreseeability of suicide
• Learn risk factors that render an individual at heightened risk of suicide
• Learn how to incorporate a comprehensive risk assessment process with potentially suicidal clients
• Learn how to document and verbalize the results of the risk assessment in order to make an accurate judgment of client risk and to protect the counselor/social worker from a legal standpoint

Speaker: Dona Schaefer, PhD, LPC
Dona is a Licensed Professional Counselor in private practice. She also counsels inmates for St. Charles Department of Corrections on behalf of Behavioral Health Solutions. Dona has been involved in the assessment of thousands of acutely suicidal individuals in various professional capacities since 1999. She received an MA in Professional Counseling from Lindenwood University, an MA in Higher Education from University of Louisville, and a PhD in Biblical Counseling from Trinity Seminary. For her doctoral dissertation, she developed a Suicide Risk Assessment tool which has been widely used and was identified as a best practice by The Joint Commission. She has served as a consultant for mental health and law enforcement professionals on the topic of assessing suicide risk.

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3 Free CEU's Psychotropic Meds: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Alternative Behavioral Care's Learning Institute Presents

Psychotropic Medication:  

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Presented by: Cara Cassidy, MSW, LCSW 

3 Free Clock Hours (CEU's) for Social Workers and Counselors

About The Event 

The purpose of this course is to provide an understanding of the different psychotropic medications available to clients. Common psychotropic medications will be discussed as well as their therapeutic effects and side effects.

Upon completion the participant will be able to:

1.      Identify major psychotropic medications by name

2.      Identify therapeutic purposes of psychotropic medication 

3.      Identify possible side effects of medications

4.      Identify so possible herbal remedies for psychiatric illness 

Seminar will be held on June 21 , 2013

Registration 12:00 Workshop 12:30-3:30

Location

St Charles Community Commons at the Spencer Rd Library

427 Spencer Rd

St. Peters MO  63376 

Cost

Free!!

How to Register  

Register by phone to 636-634-5711 or by email to Cara@AlternativeBehavioralCare.com

Please include: Your full name, your company name, mailing address, and phone number.

Registration Deadline 6/12/13

Please note: Space is limited.  A confirmation email will be sent after registration.