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CE for Psychologist, Social Worker, Counselor, & MFT!!

Course Learning Objectives/Outcomes

By the end of the course, the Counselor, Marriage and Family Therapist, Social Worker or Psychologist will be able to:
-Name six reasons why an adolescent may attempt or commit suicide.
-Name five emotional responses clients may experience following a teenager’s suicide.
-Name five concepts of denial in suicide survivors.
-Identify three strategies to cope with the trauma from adolescent suicide.
-Describe four concepts regarding suicide intervention skills.
-Explain two concepts regarding family interventions following a suicide.
-Name four types of reactions the siblings of a teenager who commits suicide may exhibit.
-Name one challenge for survivors, after a completed suicide. 
-Name three benefits in talking with other suicide survivors.
-Name three child needs that adults, who must care for children while grieving a suicidal death, find difficult to meet.
-Name one of the differences in how men and women grieve the loss of an adult child that affects marital discourse and intimacy.
-Name three pathologic grief reactions experienced by therapists related to client suicide.
-Name seven powerful emotions that suicide survivors may experience.
-Name common triggers for suicide experienced by teen clients.
-Explain what is a parasuicide.
-Explain what do postsuicide bereavement reactions represent.
-Explain how is suicide bereavement different from other mourning following death.

"The instructional level of this course is introductory, intermediate, or advanced depending on the learners clinical area of expertise."