Dr. Blaise Aguirre, MD Caring for a Suicidal Adolescent for Parents, School Personnel & Clinicians
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On September 16th, in honor of National Suicide Prevention Month, Dr. Blaise Aguirre, MD, a renowned expert in the treatment of suicidal behavior in adolescents, will provide education and insight into what care givers, teachers, counselors, therapists or anyone of us can do when faced with a suicidal adolescent.
Education and spreading awareness are necessary first steps towards tackling this domestic and global travesty. In the US alone, an average of 123 suicides occur each day. The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Global Burden of Disease study estimate that almost 800,000 people die from suicide each year - that is one person every 40 seconds. Suicide is the tenth leading cause of death in America, the second leading cause for ages 25-34, and the third leading for ages 15-24. In a special survey, the CDC reported that in May 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, emergency room visits for suicide attempts increased among adolescents aged 12–17 years, highest amongst girls. Suicide attempt visits were an astonishing 50.6% higher among girls aged 12–17 years from February 21 to March 20, 2021, then during the same period a year prior. Amongst boys ages 12–17, suspected suicide attempt emergency room visits increased 3.7%.
In this essential webinar, entitled "Caring for a Suicidal Adolescent: A Live Webinar for Parents, School Personnel & Clinicians", Dr. Blaise Aguirre will cover the following learning objectives:
1. Recognize the epidemiology and seriousness of suicide in adolescents.
2. Understand some of the myths around suicide awareness.
3. Develop and reinforce ideas about what is helpful and what is not in caring for a suicidal adolescent.
Instructor | Blaise Aguirre, MD, is a child and adolescent psychiatrist. He is a trainer in, and specializes in, dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) as well as other treatments for borderline personality disorder and associated conditions. He is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is the founding medical director of 3East continuum of care, an array of programs for teens that uses DBT to target self-endangering behaviors as well as the symptoms of borderline personality disorder (BPD) traits. Dr. Aguirre has been a staff psychiatrist at McLean Hospital since 2000 and is nationally and internationally recognized for his extensive work in the treatment of mood and personality disorders in adolescents. He lectures regularly throughout the world.
Dr. Aguirre is the author or co-author of many books including Borderline Personality Disorder in Adolescents, Mindfulness for Borderline Personality Disorder, and DBT For Dummies.
Our Intention. 100% of your registration cost ($30) will be directed to support DBT-LBC, a non-profit and mostly volunteer agency, whose members work tirelessly to educate, promote awareness of standardized DBT treatment for suicide, increase affordability and availability of standardized DBT and make inroads at state legislative levels. DBT-LBC also provides scholarships to clinicians, agencies and programs needing help with certification costs. There are decades of research demonstrating DBT as a gold standard treatment for those struggling with chronic suicidal thoughts, feelings, and behaviors for all ages. Still, affordable, and standardized DBT is hard to find, as there are not enough therapists providing comprehensive and standardized DBT. The overarching aim of the DBT-Linehan Board of Certification is to provide to the public at large and to relevant stakeholders a source that identifies providers and programs that have gone through a rigorous process to become certified based on the high standards patterned after the evidenced based model.
CEUs. CEs from NBCC will be offered through one of our sponsors, Portland DBT Institute. Participants will receive 1 CE for attending this presentation. In order to receive CE credit, you must attend the webinar live.
If you are unable to attend the webinar and would like to make a donation to DBT-LBC to help further the mission and you can Donate Here . All donations will further DBT-LBC’s critical cause exponentially Help us link clients in need of DBT as it was designed to be delivered. Marsha Linehan fully supports this mission, and a donation in any amount helps.
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