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Overdose and Suicide: Co-occurrence, Risks, and Interventions
Original Recording Date :
Course Format
Recorded webinar.
Co-occurring disorders are increasingly prevalent in the individuals we serve. The treatment landscape is additionally complicated by the interplay of high risk substance use and symptoms of suicidality. This training is for clinicians interested in learning more about risk factors for suicide, accidental overdose, and the co-occurrence of both. Additionally, the training will cover interventions to manage suicidal ideation, collaboratively develop effective safety plans, and implement harm reduction techniques with individuals using substances. Strategies and approaches discussed will take a trauma-informed lens recognizing the importance of safety, choice, and empowerment in this clinical work. Participants will also learn strategies to cope with their own experience of losing a patient to suicide or accidental overdose.
Learning Objectives:
- Recognize risk factors for suicide and accidental overdose.
- Create effective and collaborative safety plans to address lethality and overdose risk.
- Employ harm reductions strategies with individuals using substances, empowering PWUD (people who use drugs) to make informed decisions for safer use.
- Identify ways to cope with patient loss related to suicide or accidental overdose.
Research: See the following websites for more information about each of the specific areas of the training:
- Co-Occuring Disorders - SAMHSA
- Suicide/Lethality - DBT (Linehan); CAMS (Jobes); Zero Suicide including CALM (Counseling on Access to Lethal Means); Now Matters Now
- Harm Reduction - Intergrative Harm Reduction Psychotherapy (Tatarsky); National Harm Reduction Coalition; Zero Overdose
Target Audience: social workers, mental health practitioners, creative arts therapists, marriage and facility therapists, psychologists, addiction professionals, case managers, and other interested individuals.
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Jennifer Cervi, LCSW, CASAC, Clinical Director, Horizon Health Services
Jennifer Cervi, LCSW, CASAC, is the Clinical Director of Integrated Services at Horizon Health Services in Western New York. Prior to this role, she served as the Clinical Director of Substance Use Disorder Services for Horizon's outpatient substance use disorder (SUD) clinics, Program Director of an outpatient SUD clinic, and as an SUD counselor. Her current work in the field includes clinical supervision, development of clinical programming, facilitation of agency and community training, and individual therapy. Jennifer is a member of the Erie County Mental Health Subcommittee and is involved in several agency initiatives at Horizon aimed at reducing and addressing patient suicide and overdose risk including training clinicians on dual-diagnosis/integrated care, training/implementation of Dialectical Behavior Therapy programming, and training/implementation of harm reduction resources and interventions. Jennifer was previously employed at Child & Adolescent Treatment Services in Buffalo as a Care Coordinator/Intensive Case Manager in the Wraparound program working with children and their families.
