Thursday, March 15, 2012

The County of Summit Alcohol, Drug Addiction & Mental Health Services Board,

The Ohio Suicide Prevention Foundation

and The Suicide Prevention Coalition of Summit County present

internationally known Suicide Assessment expert,

Shawn Christopher Shea, M.D.

Dr. Shea, Director of the Training Institute for Suicide Assessment and Clinical Interviewing, will be presenting a morning and an afternoon session.

The morning session is entitled "The Delicate Art of Uncovering Suicidal Ideation: The Chronological Assessment of Suicide Events".

The afternoon session is entitled "Suicide Prevention in a New Light: Matrix Treatment Planning and The Quest for Happiness".

Separate registration for the morning session and afternoon session is required.

"Suicide Prevention in a New Light:

Matrix Treatment Planning and The Quest for Happiness"

Intended Audience:

Appropriate for counselors, psychologists, psychiatrists, psychiatric nurses, social workers, substance abuse counselors, school counselors, case managers, and all mental health trainees.

Description:

Pulling from his best-selling book of philosophy - Happiness Is. - and years of helping individuals coping with severe illnesses such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, Dr. Shea takes the audience on a provacative journey into the importance of philosophical inquiry and its ramifications in unstalling stalled treatment planning and other vital processes in preventing suicide such as building the therapeutice alliance, improving medication adherence, and creating hope. Two questions are used to launch this philosophical exploration: 1) What is the nature of happiness? and 2) What is the nature of human nature itself?

The answers, derived from Dr. Shea's twenty-five years fo clinical practice, fifty years of navigating life's ups and downs and from an array of thinkers and pop icons - from the mystic Julian of Norwich to the writer Herman Hesse - are surprising. They provoke creative ways of conceptualizing the goals of mental health intervention and the pathways taken to achieve these goals - matrix treatment planning - as we attempt to prevent suicide, all of which are brought to life with compelling clinical examples.

Dr. Shea provides a remarkably fresh definition of happiness, which has numerous ramifications for problem solving, transforming difficult times, and finding hope, while providing a surprisingly refreshing antidote to clinician "burn-out" as both client and clinician undertake their respective quests for happiness. he deftly, and with a wicked sense of humor, tranforms the basic beliefe of the "Bio-psycho-social-spiritual" model into a lively and layperson-friendly fabric called "the human matrix" which can be used by both the clinician and the client as a gateway to collaborative treatment planning as well as a dynamic map for self-exploration and revitalization.

Objectives:

• Be able to describe the importance of philosophical inquiry in everyday clinical practice from engaging patients and treatment planning to preventing suicide.
• Be able to discuss and apply a unique definition of happiness and its implications for treatment planning, the prevention of suicide, and the creation of resiliency in both client and clinician.
• Be able to use the principles of matrix treatment planning to unstall stalled healing including healting matrix effects, damaging matrix effects, and the Red Herring Principle.

Dr. Shea has authored six books and numerous articles including one of the classic texts in the field of suicide prevention. To read Dr. Shea's biography, click here.

To register for the afternoon session, select the number of tickets in the field above and click register.

To view the registration page for the morning session, click here.

The Ohio Department of Mental Health is approved by the Ohio Psychological Association - MCE Program to offer continuing education for psychologists. The Ohio Department of Mental Health #311334820 maintains responsibility for this program.

ODMH is an approved provider of continuing education for the indicated professional disciplines and awards the following credits:

Self-pay parking is available at the Professional Center South Deck.

With limited parking space, carpooling is recommended.

For inquiries pertaining to registration for this event, please contact Benjamin Wilson.