BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Denver X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Denver BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6ab194b8642c2af2185bfcbabc6ec56551 CATEGORIES:Annual Meeting SUMMARY:2019 Elevating The Conversation DESCRIPTION:
Early-Bird: Now - January 11, 2019
Registrat ion: $100
Student: $50
6 Hours CE: $60
Regular: J anuary 12 - February 14, 2019
Registration: $125
Stude nt: $50
6 Hours CE: $60
DATE: Friday, February 15, 2019
< strong>LOCATION: CU Anschutz Medical Campus, Education 2 - Lecture Hall - 1st Floor, 13121 E 17th Ave, Aurora, CO 80045
TIME: 8:30am-3:30pm
Click HERE for fu ll 2019 EtC Conference Agenda Details
Learning Objectives
Stacey Freedenthal, PhD, LCSW, specializes in suicid e risk assessment and intervention in her work as a psychotherapist, profes sor, and writer. Her book, Helping the Suicidal Person: Tips and Techniques for Professionals (Routledge, 2017), provides evidence-based advice for assessing suicide ris k, planning for safety, and helping the suicidal person to build hope, copi ng skills, and reasons for living. More than two million people have visite d Dr. Freedenthal’s website, SpeakingOfSuicide.com, since 2013. She al so has a small private psychotherapy and consulting practice specializing i n helping people who have experienced suicidal thoughts, attempted suicide, or lost a loved one to suicide.
As an associate professor at the University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work, Freedenthal coordinates the Mental Health concentratio n. She currently teaches courses on suicide risk assessment and interventio ns, mental health assessment and diagnosis, clinical social work theory and practice, and social justice issues in clinical practice. Her university r esearch and scholarship focus on topics related to suicide. She has publish ed scholarly articles about the measurement of suicidal intent, risk and pr otective factors for suicide, youth’s help-seeking when suicidal, and other topics related to suicidality.
Dr. Freedenthal has worked in the fie ld of suicide prevention since 1994, when she volunteered at a suicide hotl ine in Dallas, TX. She has become intimately acquainted with suicide not on ly through her professional training, research, and work as a psychotherapi st, but also through her own personal struggles with suicide, some of which she wrote about in a New York Times essay, A Suicide Therapist’s Secret Past.
Prior to ent
ering the mental health field, Dr. Freedenthal worked as a newspaper report
er for The Dallas Morning News. She later earned a master’s degree in socia
l work from the University of Texas, and a Ph.D. in social work from Washin
gton University in St. Louis.
For more information about Dr. Freedenth
al, please see SpeakingOfSuicide.com/aboutstacey-
freedenthal or StaceyFreedenthal.com.
< p> The Colorado Psychological Associatio n is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continui ng education for psychologists. CPA maintains responsibility for this progr am and its contents.