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ISCA Suicide Prevention Workshops

By ISCA | September 2017

Friday, October 6, 2017
8:30am to 3:30pm
Gateway Center, One Gateway Drive, Collinsville, IL

Workshop Presenter: Dr. Jonathan Singer
Dr. Jonathan Singer is a licensed clinical social worker and associate professor of social work at Loyola University Chicago. For the past 20 years, Dr. Singer has been a community mental health clinician, educator and researcher, much of that time providing crisis services to suicidal youth in schools. He is trained in Eye Movement Desensitizing and Reprocessing (EMDR), Solution-Focused Therapy, and Attachment-Based Family Therapy (ABFT) for depressed and suicidal youth. Dr. Singer's clinical and research interests focus on interventions for suicidal and cyberbullied youth, service access and service utilization, and use of technology in education and clinical practice.

Dr. Singer has given more than 100 regional, national and international presentations to the U.S. military, community mental health agencies, school districts and national professional organizations on topics ranging from youth suicide and cyberbullying to ethics, social media and adolescent development. He is the author of 50 publications, including the 2015 Routledge text, “Suicide in Schools: A Practitioner's Guide to Multi-level Prevention, Assessment, Intervention, and Postvention.”

Friday, October 13, 2017
8:30am to 3:30pm
Embassy Suites by Hilton Chicago O'Hare Rosemont

Workshop Presenter: Dr. David N. Miller
Dr. Miller joined the faculty at University at Albany, State University of New York in 2004. His research and clinical interests focus primarily on suicidal behavior and related internalizing problems in children and adolescents, particularly issues in school-based suicide prevention.

He has authored several journal articles and book chapters on these topics, and is author of the books “Child and Adolescent Suicidal Behavior: School-Based Prevention, Assessment, and Intervention” (2011) and “Identifying, Assessing, and Treating Self-Injury at School” (2010). The courses he currently teaches include Introduction to School Psychology, Developmental Psychopathology, Behavioral Interventions, Consultation and Prevention, and Cognitive-Behavior Therapy for Children and Adolescents.

More information about these and other ISCA workshops can be found at www.ilschoolcounselor.org.