Biography
Prof. Darcy Haag Granello
Prof. Darcy Haag Granello
The Ohio State University, USA
Title: Clinical Techniques for Working with Suicidal Clients
Abstract: 
Understanding how to intervene with suicidal individuals is complex and requires knowledge, training, and experience. Using a crisis response model that is enhanced specifically for interventions with suicidal clients can help guide the process of suicide intervention. This 7 step model for working with suicidal clients that has been developed and published by the presenter provides specific, practical, and concrete skills and strategies to employ when working with suicidal clients. At each step of the model, specific strategies guide practitioners through actions to take that have the potential to save the lives of their clients. These strategies are based in the research, as well as in the comprehensive review of the existing literature and the presenter’s own clinical experience. This model, when used with practitioner’s existing clinical skills, can enhance the process of working with suicidal clients.
Biography: 
Dr. Darcy Haag Granello is a Professor of Counselor Education and Director of The Ohio State University Suicide Prevention Program. She is an Ohio Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor with a Supervising Credential. She has published over 60 articles in peer-reviewed national journals, has made over 300 international, national, and state presentations. Dr. Haag Granello has secured over $2.5 million in grants and funding. She is co-author of three books (Suicide: An essential guide for helping professionals and educators; Suicide, self-injury and violence in the schools; Counseling Today: Foundations of professional identity.). She has another three books on suicide, violence, and mental health in schools under contract, with the first of these (suicide in schools) due out in 2019. One of Dr. Haag Granello’s research foci is in suicide prevention, assessment, and intervention, and she has received more than $1 million in funding to develop and implement a comprehensive suicide prevention plan for the OSU campus. This is the largest campus suicide prevention program in the United States. Dr. Haag Granello is author of the Suicide Prevention Gatekeeper Training Program called REACH. More than 14,000 people have been through this training and become certified suicide prevention gatekeepers. The OSU Suicide Prevention Program has specialized trainings for international students (REACH Across Borders), student veterans, athletes, and other at-risk groups, and has been recognized as a model program for suicide prevention efforts on campus. Dr. Haag Granello’s second area of interest is in counselor education, specifically the cognitive development of counselors, counseling supervision, conducting outcome assessment, and attitudes towards persons with mental illness. Together with her husband and colleague, Dr. Paul Granello, she regularly conducts 3-hour and 6-hour trainings on suicide prevention, assessment, and intervention to practicing mental health professionals.