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Suicide Prevention and Intervention with Older Adults

Course
Virtual
1.5 CE Hour
Clinical

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Description

As the population of older adults continues to grow in the United States and around the world, so too will the prevalence of mental health crises such as suicide. Currently, suicide disproportionally impacts older adults – though they comprise about 16.5% of the population, older adults account for 19.3% of all deaths by suicide (Drapeau & McIntosh, 2020). In this workshop, participants will learn risk factors specific to suicide among older adults, theory-driven frameworks to understand suicide prevention and intervention efforts, important distinctions between suicide and other causes of death in later life, and the consequences of ageism on identifying and responding to suicide in older adulthood. 

Target Audience
  • • Counselor
  • • Marriage & Family Therapist
  • • Psychologist
  • • Social Worker
  • • Substance Use Disorder Professionals
Educational Goal

The educational goal of this presentation is to educate participants about strategies that prepare professional counselors to work effectively with older adults who may be at risk of suicide.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Identify and describe at least three risk factors for suicide desire and behavior among older adults, including the impacts of systems of oppression such as ageism.

  • Describe and apply two theoretical frameworks or understanding suicide in later life: Interpersonal Theory of Suicide and the Five D’s of Late-Life Suicide.

  • Define and differentiate between suicide, physician assisted death, medical aid in dying and other related experiences.

  • Recognize and implement strategies and interventions for counselors to identify and support older adults at risk of suicide.

References

  • Bodner, E., Shrira, A., Bergman, Y. S., Cohen-Fridel, S., & Grossman, E. S. (2015). The interaction between aging and death anxieties predicts ageism. Personality and Individual Differences, 86, 15–19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2015.05.022

  • Canetto, S. S. (1992). Gender and suicide in the elderly. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 22(1), 80-97. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1943-278X.1992.tb00477.x

  • Conwell, Y., & Lutz, J. (2021). Lifespan development and suicide in later life. International Psychogeriatrics, 33(2), 117–119. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1041610220003695

  • Conwell, Y., Orden, K. V., & Caine, E. D. (2011). Suicide in older adults. Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 34(2), 451-468. https://doi:10.1016/j.psc.2011.02.002

  • Drapeau, C. W., & McIntosh, J. L. (2020). U.S.A. Suicide: 2019 Official Final Data. American Association of Suicidology. https://suicidology.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/2019datapgsv2b.pdf

  • Joiner, T. E. (2005). Why people die by suicide. Harvard University Press

  • Mize, M.C.B. & Shaikh, A. (in press). Using The Gerontological Imagination to Explore Suicide among Older Adults: An Interdisciplinary Perspective for Professional Counselors. Adultspan Journal.

  • Mize, M.C.B., Shannonhouse, L., Barrio Minton, C., Fullen, M., Shaikh, A., & Westcott, J. (2024). Suicide Risk Factors among Older Adults: Implications for Counselors as Medicare Providers. Journal of Counseling and Development, 102, 292-301. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcad.12512

Clinical
Counselor

TPN.health has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7267. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. TPN.health is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0220.

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LPCCs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 1.5 hours of continuing education credit for LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Marriage & Family Therapist

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 1.5 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0097.

Psychologist

Pending review.

Social Worker

TPN.health, #1766, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 03/31/2022 – 03/31/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 1.5 Clinical continuing education credits. ASWB ACE Credit is not available in NY and NJ.

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LCSWs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 1.5 hours of continuing education credit for LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0654.

Substance Use Disorder Professionals

This course has been approved by TPN.health, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #198061, TPN.health is responsible for all aspects of the programming.This course has been approved by TPN.health, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #198061, TPN.health is responsible for all aspects of the programing. Counselor Skill Group: Counseling Services

CE Policy
This course is fiscally sponsored by the Association for Adult Development and Aging (AADA). There may be potential biases or conflicts of interest inherent to this relationship, and it must be disclosed to participants. These conflicts of interest have no bearing on the course content and have been resolved.
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Mary Chase Mize, PhD, LPC, ACS, NCC, CT

Dr. Mary Chase Mize (she/her/hers) is an assistant professor of clinical mental health counseling at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, GA, a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), an Approved Clinical Supervisor (ACS), a National Certified Counselor (NCC), and is Certified in Thanatology – Death, Dying, and Bereavement (CT). Her research is focused on community-based suicide intervention and prevention efforts with older adults, equipping faith-based communities respond to suicide, and preparing counselors to work with older adult clients. In addition to her work in academia, Dr. Mize manages Seek and Find Counseling and Consulting, a small private practice where she provides counseling services to older adults and individuals experiencing grief, bereavement, death anxiety, major life transitions, and suicide ideation and loss. Dr. Mize also serves as a professional consultant and co-author to The Keep/Watch Project, an effort from the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta to equip religious and spiritual communities with suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention response skills.

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