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This talk is designed to provide psychologists with intermediate skills on applying a risk formulation model to patients and information on empirically supported interventions for assisting individuals for suicide ideation and behavior (to include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Suicide Prevention (CBT-SP), Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality (CAMS), and Collaborative Safety Planning Intervention (SPI)). Attendees will also be educated about common ways clinicians react when their patients die by suicide and how we can best support those clinicians.

Learning objectives:
  • Apply Risk Formulation Model to patients
  • Describe 3 empirically supported interventions for assisting patients with suicidal ideation: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Suicide Prevention (CBT-SP), Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality (CAMS), Collaborative Safety Planning Intervention (SPI)
  • Describe common reactions of clinician survivors of patient suicide to include sadness, guilt, shame, fear

OUR SPEAKERS

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Dr. Jessica Gerfen is the Chief Executive Officer of St. Louis Behavioral Medicine Institute (SLBMI). She is a licensed psychologist who received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science. She completed her post-doctoral fellowship at the Houston OCD Program. Dr. Jessica Gerfen has served as Clinical Risk Manager at St. Louis Behavioral Medicine Institute since January 2015. As part of her duties in that role, she consults on any potential clinical risk management concerns at the facility, including suicide risk, and attends numerous trainings on Risk Management.
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Dr. Deb Elliott-DeSorbo is a licensed clinical psychologist at St. Louis Behavioral Medicine Institute (SLBMI).  She completed her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from George Washington University. She is the Director of the Health Psychology Program and serves as the Institute’s Training Director. She conceptualized SLBMI's Peer Support Initiative (PSI) for Clinician Survivors of Patient Suicide in 2019 following extensive research on this topic and continues to lead this program.
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