Have you found yourself feeling uncomfortable assessing suicidal or high-risk clients? 

Do you feel that you need more knowledge as to the legal implications of risk assessment?

Have you conducted risk assessments or lost a client to suicide and experienced psychological discomfort?

This training will address clinical competency, vicarious trauma, and legalities of Mental Health Risk Assessment. The training will help both students in a Master’s level Mental Health degree program as well as Professionals in any Mental Health related field. 

Participants will be able to:

1. Discuss evidence-informed competencies for suicide assessment and intervention.

2. Discuss cultural considerations for risk assessment, and of ways to cope with vicarious trauma related to suicide risk assessment and suicide completion.

3. Explain legalities of risk assessment, paperwork and documentation, clinical use of risk and protective factors. 

This conference will be broken up into two weeks and will be 6 Continuing Education hours.

Dates: Tuesday, June 16th and Tuesday, June 23rd, 2020

Participants will be signing up to attend both weeks for complete training. 

Time: 9:00 am – 12:30 pm on both days

Presenter:

Laura A. Piccolo, MA, LCPC – Laura is a 4th year doctoral student at Northern Illinois University. Laura owns a private group practice, Infinity Center for Personal Growth, LLC. Laura has 14 years of experience in many different areas of mental health services, including conducting training and doing community and hospital-based Crisis Assessments. 

Registration:

Please go to www.infinitycenter.net and click on the Trainings tab to register. If you have questions or need assistance, please contact the Office Manager at contactus@infinitycenter.net 

Northern Illinois University Department of Counseling and Higher Education has been approved by NBCC as a continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 4232. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Northern Illinois University Department of Counseling and Higher Education is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Attendees can receive 6 clock hours of Continuing Education. Attendees must stay for the entire presentation to earn CE Certificate. No partial credit will be granted.

Have you found yourself feeling uncomfortable assessing suicidal or high-risk clients? 

Do you feel that you need more knowledge as to the legal implications of risk assessment?

Have you conducted risk assessments or lost a client to suicide and experienced psychological discomfort?

This training will address clinical competency, vicarious trauma, and legalities of Mental Health Risk Assessment. The training will help both students in a Master’s level Mental Health degree program as well as Professionals in any Mental Health related field. 

Participants will be able to:

1. Discuss evidence-informed competencies for suicide assessment and intervention.

2. Discuss cultural considerations for risk assessment, and of ways to cope with vicarious trauma related to suicide risk assessment and suicide completion.

3. Explain legalities of risk assessment, paperwork and documentation, clinical use of risk and protective factors. 

This conference will be broken up into two weeks and will be 6 Continuing Education hours.

Dates: Tuesday, June 16th AND Tuesday, June 23rd, 2020

Participants will be signing up to attend both weeks for complete training. 

Time: 9:00 am – 12:30 pm on both days

Presenter:

Laura A. Piccolo, MA, LCPC – Laura is a 4th year doctoral student at Northern Illinois University. Laura owns a private group practice, Infinity Center for Personal Growth, LLC. Laura has 14 years of experience in many different areas of mental health services, including conducting training and doing community and hospital-based Crisis Assessments. 

Registration:

Please go to www.infinitycenter.net and click on the Trainings tab to register. If you have questions or need assistance, please contact the Office Manager at contactus@infinitycenter.net 

Northern Illinois University Department of Counseling and Higher Education has been approved by NBCC as a continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 4232. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Northern Illinois University Department of Counseling and Higher Education is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Attendees can receive 6 clock hours of Continuing Education. Attendees must stay for the entire presentation to earn CE Certificate. No partial credit will be granted.