Suicide Prevention: Epidemiology, Assessment and Interventions

1:00 pm to 4:00 pm EST

LIVE WEBINAR

Presenter: Golnaz Agahi, DSW, LCSW, MPH

NASW-NYS Members: $30

NASW Other Chapter Member: $60

Non-Members: $75

NASW-NYS Student and Transitional Members: FREE

This workshop is approved for 3.0 continuing education credit hours for licensed social workers, licensed mental health counselors, licensed marriage and family therapists and licensed psychologists

Workshop Description

This suicide prevention course provides an overview of current statistics, evidence-based screening tools and interventions to assist professionals in providing more comprehensive care to individuals at risk of suicide. This course will also review development of safety plans and documentation.  

Learning Objectives

After the completion of this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Discuss current trends in suicide rates and attempts
• Increase knowledge of suicide screening tools
• Improve skills in assessment of suicide ideation with low to high risk
• Develop a safety plan founded on evidence-based practices

This workshop is approved for 3.0 continuing education credit hours.

NASW-NYS is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers (Provider ID #0014), licensed mental health counselors (Provider ID #MHC-0053), licensed marriage and family therapists (Provider ID #MFT-0037) and licensed psychologists (Provider ID #PSY-0088).

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Presenter:

Golnaz Agahi, DSW, LCSW, MPH, has over 20 years of experience working in health and human services private and public sectors. Her area of administrative expertise is in program management, planning, implementation, and evaluation. Her clinical work, presentations and publications address the following areas: suicide prevention and treatment, alcohol and drug prevention and treatment, intimate partner violence, co-occurring disorders, stress management, leadership development, health outcome measure to improve health indicators. Also, she has over a decade of higher education teaching experience at University of Southern California and California State University, Fullerton, Schools of Social Work. Presently, Dr. Agahi is an Associate Professor and Assistant Field Director at UMass Global University, School of Social Work. In addition, she is the president of SocialWise Consulting, which provides an array of services critical to organizational development and sustainability; from use of evidence-based frameworks to plan, implement and evaluate programs to survey development, grant writing and delivery of behavioral health services. Dr. Agahi received her doctorate from University of Southern California, School of Social Work and holds dual master’s in Public Health and Social Work from San Diego State University.