ACA Presents: Confronting the Darkness: Non-Suicidal Self-Injury, Suicide Assessment, and Counselor Self-Care after Client Suicide
As a professional counselor, you learn to conduct a suicide assessment in graduate school. How long has it been since you put that knowledge to use? If a suicidal client is sitting before you today, are you confident in your approach to suicide assessment as well as non-suicidal self-injury (i.e."cutting")? Six Wednesdays: Oct. 30 through Dec.11, 2013, 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. ET Speakers and Topics: October 30, 2013 Non-Suicidal Self-Injury: Assessment and Risk Considerations Dr. Victoria Kress Victoria E. Kress, Ph.D., LPCC-S, NCC is a professor, counseling clinic director, and the director of the clinical mental health, and addictions counseling programs at Youngstown State University. She has over 20 years of clinical and supervisory experience working in various settings such as community mental health centers, hospitals, residential treatment facilities, private practices, and college counseling centers. Dr. Kress has published over 75 refereed arti...