Children, Adolescents & Suicidal Behaviour

Live Webinar Session 1 – Children, Adolescents & Suicidal Behaviour March 22, 2021

1.1 Understanding suicide in children & adolescents

1.2 Definitions

1.3 Statistics and trends

1.4 Engaging the system beyond the child

1.5 Developmental stages & relevance to suicide

2.1 Consent

2.2 Privacy & confidentiality

2.3 Working in multidisciplinary teams

2.4 Overcoming challenges when there is family conflict

Live Webinar Session 2 – Children, Adolescents & Suicidal Behaviour April 19, 2021

3.1 Juvenile justice and forensic

3.2 Out-of-home care and precariously housed

3.3 Cultural considerations

3.4 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

3.5 Gender and sexual diversity

4.1 Bullying, family conflict and violence

4.2 Neurodiversity, health and pain

4.3 Trauma and related disorders

4.4 Substance use disorders

4.5 Suicide exposure in peer groups

5.1 Identifying behavioural, emotional & cognitive warning signs

5.2 Common precipitants to escalation in risk

5.3 The role of social media & gaming

6.1 Strengths based practice

6.2 Safe communication & assessment for suicide

6.3 Normalising the trauma response

Live Webinar Session 3 – Children, Adolescents & Suicidal Behaviour May 3, 2021

7.1 Systems and family based interventions

7.2 Brief Interventions – Safety Planning Intervention (SPI)

7.3 Brief Means Safety Counselling

7.4 Suicide Direct Psychotherapies with Children & Adolescents