Treating Depressed and Suicidal Teens

Join us on Friday, December 9, with Dr. David A Brent for: Treating Depressed and Suicidal Teens

Learning Objectives:

1. Review methods for assessing risk factors for suicide and imminent suicidality in teens.

2. Discuss evidence-based approaches to suicide prevention and intervention, including Chain Analysis, Safety Plans, and Treatment Plans.

This event is geared towards beginner, intermediate and advanced professionals.

For more information email info@wellnessinstitute.org.

Produced by the Wellness Institute, a division of the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute (JLI).

Accreditation Statement:

The Wellness Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. TWI maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

CE Credit: 1.5

CE Processing Fee: $35

Social Workers, LMFTs, and LPC/LMHCs in many states can satisfy their continuing education requirements at APA-approved sponsor’s events.

The Wellness Institute, the event planners, and the presenters receive no commercial support for this program.

About Dr. David A Brent:

David Brent is a child and adolescent psychiatrist trained who has worked as a researcher in the area of adolescent suicide for four decades at the University of Pittsburgh, where he is a Distinguished Professor and holds an Endowed Chair in Suicide Studies. His work has focused on the ascertainment of risk factors for adolescent suicide and the translation of those findings into interventions to reduce suicidal risk. In collaboration with many others, he helped to identify the role of mood disorders, substance, and firearms as risk factors for adolescent suicide and has delineated some mechanisms by which suicidal behavior is transmitted in families. He has helped to develop and test novel methods for the assessment of suicidal risk through such diverse methods as adaptive screening, neural correlates of suicidal thinking, and machine learning of health records. David has also helped to develop and test psychotherapeutic approaches to depressed and suicidal youth, including a brief, app-supported intervention to reduce suicidal risk in high-risk adolescents.

David currently leads an NIMH-funded Center, which is a collaboration with over 30 other colleagues, with the goals of enhancing the capacity of pediatric primary care to detect, triage, and manage depressed and suicidal youth, and training a diverse, national cohort of early career scientists focused on youth suicide. He co-founded and has led a clinical program, Services for Teens at Risk, that has treated over 7000 suicidal adolescents and young adults. David led an NIMH-funded research training grant for 3 decades and has helped to train many highly successful researchers and academic leaders.

If you or someone you know is thinking about suicide, call or text the new three-digit, 24-hour hotline of the US Government and National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 988* to be connected to a trained suicide crisis counselor.

*988 is the new initiative of the US government's mental health emergency hotline. It will connect you with 1-800-273-TALK (1-800-273-8255) / (Text "HOME” To 741741) and you will be connected to a trained suicide crisis counselor.