Suicide Prevention, Postvention, and Clinical Considerations – August 19, 2026

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DESCRIPTION:

This course introduces mental health professionals to tools useful in assessing, intervening, and providing postvention support in cases involving suicide risk or suicide loss. Drawing from evidence-based frameworks—including Joiner’s Interpersonal-Psychological Theory, Schneidman’s Cubic Model, and contemporary suicide-focused treatments like Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality (CAMS)—participants will learn to identify and prioritize risk factors across health, environmental, and historical domains.

The course integrates lived-experience material from a family who lost their daughter to suicide, offering a powerful lens into warning signs, hindsight bias, and the complexity of suicide grief. Participants will receive exposure to direct suicide inquiry methods, the 24–48-hour ladder-up assessment, lethal-means counseling, and crisis coordination using best-practice guidelines. Emphasis is placed on stigma-reducing language, relational and identity-based contributors to risk, and the clinician’s role in fostering hope and resilience.

With this introduction to current methodologies, references, recommended readings, and trainings, participants will leave with new competencies to implement in a variety of clinical or community settings. 

PRESENTER:

Gary Lee Maddux Jr.
MASTER OF ARTS IN CLINICAL MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELING, LICENSED PROFESSIONAL COUNSELOR ASSOCIATE