{"id":552,"date":"2017-02-23T15:28:23","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T15:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indigenouspsychservices.com.ausuicide-prevention-in-aboriginal-communities-1-5-day-workshop\/"},"modified":"2020-02-02T16:39:37","modified_gmt":"2020-02-02T08:39:37","slug":"suicide-prevention-workshop","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/indigenouspsychservices.com.au\/workshops\/suicide-prevention-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Suicide Prevention in Aboriginal Communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row_content&#8221; css_animation=&#8221;none&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1521531241132{background-color: #ff9900 !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text css_animation=&#8221;fadeIn&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; color: #ffffff;\"><strong>1.5 Day Workshop<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Adjunct Professor Tracy Westerman presents a day and a half workshop on Suicide Prevention in Aboriginal Communities. This training program has been developed based on evidence regarding the different risk and protective factors that exist for suicidal behaviour in Aboriginal people. It is the only program in Australia specifically developed for Aboriginal people and on empirical evidence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Participants will walk away with the following skills:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">A unique and practical understanding of how to engage effectively with a suicidal Aboriginal client taking cultural differences in communication and engagement into account<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Learn how to translate differences in the nature of Aboriginal suicide into effective intervention strategies at the level of determining individual risk and intent for suicide<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Learn how beliefs about suicide from within the Aboriginal context impacts on effective intervention, communication and discussion of suicide intent and effectiveness of mainstream assessment processes<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">An overview of Adjunct Professor Westerman\u2019s research on suicidal behaviour in Aboriginal communities \u2013 what it tells us about the relevant risk and protective factors and how these differences necessitate a unique approach to Aboriginal suicide prevention<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">The nature of Aboriginal suicide \u2013 taking the differences that are clear and translating them into effective assessment and intervention<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Depression \u2013 its cultural manifestation and relationship with Aboriginal suicide.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">The components of cultural resilience and how to develop interventions inclusive of these factors<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Ensuring effective engagement with suicidal Aboriginal clients \u2013 an empirically tested engagement model<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Learn how to translate cultural differences into Suicide Risk Assessment<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Applied case studies using a culturally validated suicide risk assessment tool<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Postvention \u2013 what can be done after a suicide attempt or death in a community \u2013 a practical model for the prevention of copycat suicides<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">IPS success in the development, delivery and evaluation of Whole of Community Suicide Intervention Programs in FOUR states of Australia with over 2,000 community members \u2013 an effective community intervention model<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">ACCREDITATION in the Westerman Aboriginal Symptom Checklist \u2013 Youth WASC-Y<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">ACCREDITATION in the Westerman Aboriginal Symptom Checklist \u2013 Adults WASC-A. These tests are uniquely developed and validated for use with Aboriginal people. They enable screening of Aboriginal youth and adults of risk for depression, suicidal behaviours, alcohol and drug use, anxiety and the determination of cultural resilience as a moderator of risk<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row_content_no_spaces&#8221; css_animation=&#8221;none&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1521531260406{background-color: #ff9900 !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text css_animation=&#8221;fadeIn&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #ffffff;\">\u00a0<strong>Inclusions<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Pre-workshop reading material<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Aboriginal Mental Health Cultural Competency Test<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Participant workbook<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row_content&#8221; css_animation=&#8221;none&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1521531241132{background-color: #ff9900 !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text css_animation=&#8221;fadeIn&#8221;] \u00a01.5 Day Workshop [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Adjunct Professor Tracy Westerman presents a day and a half&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":18013,"menu_order":64,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indigenouspsychservices.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/552"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indigenouspsychservices.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indigenouspsychservices.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indigenouspsychservices.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indigenouspsychservices.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indigenouspsychservices.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/552\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indigenouspsychservices.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indigenouspsychservices.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}