The Dublin Regional Committee

Present a workshop entitled:

\"Assessment and Treatment of Suicidality\"

Presenter Bio: Dr Eoin Galavan is a Senior Clinical and Counselling Psychologist in the HSE North Dublin Adult Mental Health Services. He is currently the Clinical Lead  for the North Dublin Suicide Assessment and Treatment Service and Team Leader for the Evolve Dialectical Behaviour Therapy programme - both of which are dedicated to treating suicidality and self-harm eithin the mental health service.

Workshop Outline: The Workshop will introduce participants to the psychology of suicide and suicidal behaviour. The day includes an overview of the \" Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicide\" (CAMS) model and the opportunity to practice using the SSF ( suicide status form, the core essential tool in the CAMS model).

By the end of the day participants will:      

• Be able to identifysuicidal risk early in the clinical engagement and use the SSF to collaboratively assess suicide risk.
• Develop SSF based suicide specific outpatient treatment plans that emphasise the development of a stabilization plan and the identification of suicidal \"drivers\" as a focus of treatment.                                                 
• Clinically track,assess and treat drivers with problem-focused interventions .            Be able to prepare a stabilization or crisis response plan.                        
• Handle and document a range of clinical outcomes using CAMS.

Training Level: Intermediate / Advanced 

CPD certificates will be emailed to participants after attendance at the Workshop.