Suicide & Self-Harm in Our Youth: Assessment Tools and Treatment Approaches to Help Clients Heal
Join us as Dr. Sheppard guides learners through enhancing their understanding of and ability to effectively respond to suicidal and self-harming youth.
Attendees will learn to:
- -Assess risk and intervene in a manner that ensures the safety of young suicidal and self-harming clients
- -Apply motivational techniques that engage teens in their treatment and help them sustain and maintain recovery
- -Incorporate multiple systems the client functions in, including school and peer groups, to improve treatment outcomes
- -Develop coping skills in adolescents, and young adults suffering with NSSI and suicidal ideation using interventions informed by CBT, DBT, and interpersonal neurobiology
- -Maximize support among family members with techniques that promote problem solving and communication, and help young people feel in control and part of the therapeutic process.
Date: October 7th, 2026 9:00 AM – 1:30 PM
Location: Virtual via Zoom
CEUs available!
Meet Your Trainer
Tony L Sheppard, Psy.D., CGP, FAGPA, specializes in using group psychotherapy to treat young people suffering from psychiatric issues including self-harm and suicide. A licensed psychologist and certified group psychotherapist, Tony brings over 15 years of experience working with children, adolescents, and young adults to his clinical practice. In addition to his private practice, Groupworks, he has trained hundreds of clinicians, educators, nurses, and physicians across the country in the treatment of self-harm and suicide, and is the author of a training curriculum in group psychotherapy. Tony’s clinical approach draws from interpersonal neurobiology, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, solution focused brief therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and positive psychology. His creative and interactive delivery style will draw you into the dire nature of youth suicide and self-harm and have you leaving feeling confident and prepared to handle this most important work.