Course Details

Course TitleIACP 2024 - Uncloaking Camouflaged Suicidality
Date 10/20/2024
ProviderIACP PPSS
Phone800-843-4227
Emailannualconference@theIACP.org
Website
LocationBoston, MA
Credit Hours1
Instructor(s)Stephanie Barone McKenny, PhD; FBI Special Agent Mark Michalek
Method of InstructionWorkshop/Seminar
Approving AgencyAPA
Course Syllabus Uncloaking Camouflaged Suicidality Course Description and Presenters Info.pdf

Course Description

This course is relevant to the Occupational and Clinical, specifically in relation to FFDE. I<span style="background-color: var(--bs-table-bg); color: var(--bs-table-color-state, var(--bs-table-color-type, var(--bs-table-color))); font-size: calc(0.99rem + 0.1vw); text-align: var(--bs-body-text-align);">t addressed some of the occupational stressors that police officers experience, as well as some of the emotional and personality-related risk factors in officers. Here is the course description: Individuals with the most serious suicidal intent may be the ones most likely to conceal it. Subsequently, there tends to be weaknesses in how SWAT, law enforcement psychologists, and others assess suicidal ideations in the heat of the moment in the field and in the office building. What are the suicide assessment domains? What are the veracity techniques, including the specific interview strategies? What is the phenomenological map of suicide? What are the three core factors, and how do you conceptualize suicide risk based on them? What are the specific risk factors if it is a police officer who is concealing suicidality and, in those cases, what should be your plan? Finally, beyond uncloaking the camouflage, what should be your message to those considering suicide to more effectively avert the threat of danger?

Course Objectives

Individuals with the most serious suicidal intent may be the ones most likely to conceal it. Subsequently, there tends to be weaknesses in how SWAT, law enforcement psychologists, and others assess suicidal ideations in the heat of the moment in the field and in the office building. What are the suicide assessment domains? What are the veracity techniques, including the specific interview strategies? What is the phenomenological map of suicide? What are the three core factors, and how do you conceptualize suicide risk based on them? What are the specific risk factors if it is a police officer who is concealing suicidality and, in those cases, what should be your plan? Finally, beyond uncloaking the camouflage, what should be your message to those considering suicide to more effectively avert the threat of danger?