Where: Scarfe Building, Room 310
This colloquium will help counsellors to understand and support a client who is suicidal. Specifically, Dr. Young will explore:
- How clients conceptualize suicide attempts and the suicidal experience
- The agency of the client
- Listening effectively
- Best practices around suicide assessment in a non-psychiatric setting (e.g. counselling setting)
About Richard:
Richard Young, Ed.D., is a professor with the Counselling Psychology program at UBC and a Fellow with the Canadian and American Psychological Associations. See also https://ecps-educ.sites.olt.ubc.ca/person/richard-young/ for an overview of scholarly interests and publications.
For over a decade, as part of the Aeschi Working Group (http://www.aeschiconference.unibe.ch/), he has studied the experience of the person who is suicidal. The group recently published Meeting the Suicidal Person: The Therapeutic Approach to the Suicidal Patient (2010).