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ScheduleWelcome and Announcements08:30 am - 09:00 am
Session 1 09:00 - 10:15 amOpening Keynote Dr. Lauren Cook
Break 10:15 - 10:30 am
Session 2 10:30-11:30 amBreakout Session 2.A Compassion Fatigue and Burnout: Challenges for College Counselors Treating High Risk
Suicidal Client
Yulanda Tyre, PhD, LPC-S, NCC, Associate Professor, Liberty University Breakout Session 2.B Emerging Empirically Supported Treatments for Suicide Assessment and Intervention:
Common Processes
Christopher Conley, BA, BSW, MSW, GDipCBS, Doctor of Social Work Student, Social WorkPsychotherapist, McMaster University Department of Psychiatry and BehavioralNeurosciences, University of Alabama
Lunch on Your Own 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Session 3 12:30 - 1:30 pmBreakout Session 3.A Substance Use and Suicide: The Pandemic within the Pandemic
Zach Ludwig, LPC-S, Director of Regulatory [email protected] Session 3.B Mental Health Ambassadors: Peer Storytelling as A Suicide Prevention
Kathleen James, MSW, Program Coordinator, Mental Health Initiatives, University of [email protected]
ScheduleSession 4 1:30 - 2:30 pmBreakout Session 4.A
The Black Elephant on the HBCU Campus
Kezziah F McDaniel, EdD, LPC-S, Independent Contractor, Renew Counseling andConsulting, [email protected] Session 4.B The Alliance Project: Suicide Prevention Training
Rachel-Clair Franklin, LPC-S, CHES, BC-TMH, Licensed Training and Response Clinician,Mississippi State University, Department of [email protected]
Break 2:30 - 2:45 pm
Session 5 2:45 - 3:45 pmBreakout Session 5.A Understanding and Supporting Mental Health Needs Within The LGBTQ+ CommunityWhitney Robenolt, Psy.D., Psychological Counselor, Bloomsburg [email protected] Session 5.B Out: Stigma - In: Increasing African American Postsecondary Students’ Help-SeekingBehaviorsTerissa Upchurch-Butler, Ph.D., LPC, LIMHP, NCC, Assistant Professor, Bellevue [email protected]
Schedule
Session 6 3:45 - 4:45 pmBreakout Session 6.AProlonged Grief Disorder and Coping Strategies Implemented by Individuals
Bereaved by Sudden or Violence
Emma Quadlander, MS, ALC, Doctoral Student, Auburn [email protected] Session 6.B Suicide Grief: Dispelling Misconceptions to Reduce Suicide Death Stigma
Belinda KockM.Ed., NCC, CT, Grief Support [email protected]
Wrap Up and Closing Remarks 4:45 - 5:00 pm
Content SessionsCompassion Fatigue and Burnout: Challenges for College Counselors Treating High RiskSuicidal ClientThe purpose and rationale of this program proposal is 1.) to raise awareness to the risks of compassionfatigue and burnout while working with high-risk suicidal students, 2.) to educate counselors andcounseling supervisors on the signs, symptoms, 3.) and treatment and prevention of compassion fatigue,and burnout while working with high-risk suicidal students. Open discussion and activities (work sheets,polling questions, chat options) will complement the presentation.
Yulanda Tyre, PhD, LPC-S, NCC, Associate Professor, Liberty [email protected]
Emerging Empirically Supported Treatments for Suicide Assessment and Intervention: CommonProcessesThere are common assessment and treatment processes across emerging empirically supportedtreatments of suicide. This presentation will highlight universal commonalities across four current suicideassessment and intervention approaches. Understanding common processes assists in selectinginstruments and intervention approaches. Participants will acquire knowledge of how to use suicideinterventions through a review of the research and demonstration.
Christopher Conley, BA, BSW, MSW, GDipCBS, Doctor of Social Work Student, University of Alabama,Social Work Psychotherapist, McMaster University Department of Psychiatry and [email protected]
Substance Use and Suicide: The Pandemic within the PandemicThe purpose of this presentation is to explore multiple characteristics of suicide and substance use andespecially where the two intersect and influence each other. Substance use and suicide are bothincreasing in frequency. The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively influenced mental wellness and hascorrelated with increased use of substances leading to more opioid overdoses than in any previous year.This presentation will reinforce interventions available to helpers and communities in addressing.
Zach Ludwig, LPC-S, Director of Regulatory Services [email protected]
Content SessionsThe Black Elephant on the HBCU CampusTo examine the factors that contribute to high suicide rates in the African American community ofemerging adults and how these factors can be addressed on the campuses of HBCUs.
Kezziah F McDaniel, EdD, LPC-S, Independent Contractor, Renew Counseling and Consulting, [email protected]
Mental Health Ambassadors: Peer Storytelling as A Suicide Prevention InterventionIn 2019, University of South Carolina began recruiting students with lived experience of mental healthconcerns to serve as peer advocates for the newly created Mental Health Ambassador (MHA)program. Following training, MHAs promote, advocate, and normalize mental health and help-seekingbehaviors via personal storytelling and psychoeducation. In this session, we will share early outcomesof this project (including some surprises), adaptations during COVID-19 campus closure, lessonslearned, and next steps.
Kathleen James, MSW, Program Coordinator, Mental Health Initiatives, University of South [email protected] Scott, Ph.D., Associate Director, Mental Health Initiatives, University of South [email protected]
The Alliance Project: Suicide Prevention TrainingAlliance Project is a suicide prevention training. Our goal is to build a community of gatekeepercollaborators with focused training modules. The program was designed due to concerns of costs, skillretention and utilization, and the desire for active learning strategies. For virtual training presentations,a PowerPoint presentation will be utilized. This training model is currently being employed throughoutthe state of Mississippi and is approved through the MS Department of Mental Health.
Rachel-Clair Franklin, LPC-S, CHES, BC-TMH, Licensed Training and Response Clinician,Mississippi State University, Department of [email protected]
Understanding and Supporting Mental Health Needs Within The LGBTQ+ CommunityThis presentation will discuss mental health concerns within LGBTQ+ community. We will explorefactors and extraneous variables that may promote higher risk and barriers to mental health treatment.Additionally, we will be exploring ways in which clinicians can become better allies for effective,appropriate, and meaningful, mental health treatment.
Whitney Robenolt, Psy.D., Psychological Counselor, Bloomsburg [email protected]
Content SessionsOut: Stigma - In: Increasing African American Postsecondary Students’ Help-SeekingBehaviorsPrior research reveals higher rates of death by suicide; suicide attempts; and suicide attemptsresulting in serious medical problems among African Americans ages 15-24. Culturally relevantstrategies for expanding engagement and clinical intervention are urgently needed. Presentation goalsinclude helping reduce stigma regarding mental illness among African American postsecondarystudents and offering strategies for implementing faculty, clinical staff, and student gatekeepertraining.
Terissa Upchurch-Butler, Ph.D., LPC, LIMHP, NCC, Assistant Professor, Bellevue [email protected]
Prolonged Grief Disorder and Coping Strategies Implemented by Individuals Bereaved bySudden or ViolenceThe aim of this presentation is to inform counselors about the difference in coping strategiesimplemented by individuals bereaved by violent or sudden loss. Violent and sudden loss includehomicide, suicide, and accidental death. These individuals often struggle with Prolonged GriefDisorder (PGD), thus, an exploration of PGD and effective therapeutic approaches such as CognitiveBehavioral Therapy (CBT) and restorative retelling are imperative. The limited amount of researchregarding this population.
Emma Quadlander, MS, ALC, Doctoral Student, Auburn University [email protected]
Suicide Grief: Dispelling Misconceptions to Reduce Suicide Death StigmaPurpose: Reduce suicide stigma through postvention work with suicide grief survivors. Rationale:Suicide survivors face a unique type of grief and are at higher risk of complicated grief: a grief thatmay be filled with relief, guilt, and even shame. Bringing to light the most common misconceptionsthat suicide survivors face is one way to break the stigma of suicide. Delivery: PowerPoint anddiscussion Relevance: Using postvention as prevention, Breaking the stigma of suicide and suicidegrief
Belinda Kock M.Ed., NCC, CT, Grief Support [email protected]
