Lisa Morgan, MEd, CAS is an author, advocate, and consultant in crisis support and suicide prevention for autistic people. She founded and co-chairs the Autism and Suicide Workgroup, which has developed three autism specific resources. Lisa is a certified autism specialist, Life Coach, and owner of Lisa Morgan Consulting, LLC. She is currently pursuing a Master of Social Work degree.

Learning Objectives:

• Discuss unique risk factors and warning signs of suicide for autistic people

• Explain cultural competence and unintentional harm

• Determine practical applications for supporting autistic people

OCUSPP and Penn Center for Prevention of Suicide partner for the 2020 OCUSPP Summer training.

Join Dr. Kelly Green and Dr. Barbara Stanley for presentations on suicide risk assessment and safety planning. This presentation will have a focus for college counseling center clinicians and will incorporate the context of teletherapy.

Wednesday, September 16, 2020 on Zoom

9:00am -10:00am for Suicide Risk Assessment, which would include how to ask questions about suicide and suicidal thinking, dispelling myths around suicide, and how to do risk assessment with young adults and adults.

10:00am -12:00pm for the Safety Planning Intervention which would include an overview of how to conduct the intervention and some demo role-play (for age 18+).

Learn more about the Penn Center for the Prevention of Suicide here.

Register for this event here.

OCUSPP is very excited to host Thomas Joiner, PhD, a leading expert on suicide. The training will take place on Thursday, June 27 at Portland State University and provide 5 CEs.

What You Will Learn:
In his theory of suicidal behavior, Dr. Thomas Joiner proposes three factors that mark those most at risk of death: the feeling of being a burden on loved ones; the sense of isolation; and the learned ability to hurt oneself. He tests the theory against diverse facts taken from clinical anecdotes, history, literature, popular culture, anthropology, epidemiology, genetics, and neurobiology— and facts about suicide rates among diverse groups.

This training includes seven learning objectives to increase participants knowledge of:

• Approaches to suicide risk assessment

• Developments in the treatment of suicidal behavior

• Epidemiology and risk factors for death by suicide

• New theory of suicidal behavior

• Anecdotal, clinical, and scientific evidence that evaluates theory of suicidal behavior

• Developments in suicide prevention

• Understand the experience of people who are bereaved by suicide
  

For more information or to register, click here.