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 Prof. Paul F. Granello The Ohio State University, USA |
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| Title: Suicide Risk Assessment: Clinical Aphorisms | |
| Abstract: Suicide risk assessment involves a complex set of skills that requires knowledge, training, and experience. Mental health professionals who conduct such assessments need concrete, practical information on suicide assessment in order to conduct culturally and developmentally appropriate suicide risk assessments. In general, the determination of suicide risk is based on a comprehensive assessment of individual risk factors and warning signs as well as a careful appraisal of protective factors that can work to mitigate the risk. Much of the research emphasizes the content of suicide risk assessment and instead of the principles that guide the process of assessment. The presenter’s own research, clinical experience, and comprehensive reviews of the literature reveal a dozen overarching principles that guide the implementation of suicide assessment, regardless of setting, population, or specific type or method of assessment used. These clinical aphorisms guide the work of individuals who engage in suicide assessment, becoming a part of the expert thinking that directs the process. Taken together, they can form a foundation for the process of suicide risk assessment. Ultimately, a comprehensive and thorough suicide risk assessment is the cornerstone of appropriate and effective interventions with suicidal individuals. | |
| Biography: Dr. Paul F. Granello is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor and Associate Professor of Counselor Education at The Ohio State University. He has secured over $2.2 million in grants to provide suicide prevention programming in Ohio schools and is a founding partner with the Ohio Department of Mental Health in establishing the Ohio Suicide Prevention Foundation. The federal funding he received was used to screen more than 12,000 Ohio school-aged children for depression, anxiety, and suicide risk. He has co-authored three books on suicide, and has three additional books on suicide, violence, and mental health in schools under contract. The first of these books: School-Based Strategies for Responding to Trauma: Practical Approaches to Building Resilient Kids and Safe Schools: Suicide in Schools, will be published by Oxford University Press in 2019. Dr. Granello also conducts research on psychological and social characteristics of individual well-being and is the founding director of the OSU Stress Management and Resiliency Training (SMART) Lab. The SMART Lab provides stress management and biofeedback training to OSU students and faculty. He has authored two books on wellness in counseling and trains counselors to incorporate wellness into their counseling practice. He has published over 40 scientific articles in peer reviewed national journals and more than 10 book chapters. Dr. Granello has presented more than 200 international, national, and state presentations on topics related to suicide, psychotherapy outcomes, and wellness. Together with his wife and colleague, Dr. Darcy Haag Granello, he regularly conducts 3-hour and 6-hour trainings on suicide prevention, assessment, and intervention to practicing mental health professionals. Dr. Granello is also a counselor in private practice in Worthington, Ohio, where he has a counseling practice and a counseling certification program to train counselors to incorporate wellness into their counseling practice. | |
