Scott Sells holds a Ph.D. in both Marriage and Family Therapy and Social Work from Florida State University. He has over 20 publications and has authored three books entitled: Treating the Traumatized Child:  A Step-by-Step Family Systems Approach (Springer Publishing, 2017), Treating the Tough Adolescent: A Family-Based, Step-by-Step Guide (Guilford Press, 1998) and Parenting Your Out-of-Control Teenager: 7 Steps to Reestablish Authority and Reclaim Love (St. Martin’s Press, 2001). Scott was a former Professor of Social Work at Savannah State University in Savannah, GA and Associate Professor at UNLV in Las Vegas, NV.

Sells, S.P. & Souder, E. (2018). Treating the Traumatized Child: A Step-by-Step Family Systems Approach.  New York, NY: Springer Publishing

Course Content Levels are Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced.

Healing Child Suicide: 4 Steps to Quickly Diagnose and Treat Its Root Causes

The fallout of the global COVID pandemic is accelerating suicide in our children and adolescents. Yet, the treatment for acts or threats of suicide often involves the individual child with little to no active family participation. This is a tactical mistake because suicide is systemic. It is caused or exacerbated by family trauma, family secrets, parent-child conflict, and/or isolation.

This webinar by Dr. Sells is for professionals who want concrete tools to treat both the child and their family when there are threats of suicide or the aftermath of grief when a child commits suicide. A video case example with a family whose child recently committed suicide will be presented along with step-by-step tools and handouts that you can immediately the next day at work.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES: 

Participants will learn how to:

1. Identify the three core family systems drivers of suicide: (1) disengagement; (2) enmeshment; and (3) family secrets
2. Use key movie clips from the Ordinary People to see suicide through a family systems trauma lens that can be immediately replicated with your clients
3. Use the FST Stress Chart, Circular Questions, and Safety Stressors Questionnaire to safety bring suicide into the open and heal family secrets fueling the suicide
4. Use the FST Seed Tree Diagram to help both you and your clients to quickly Identify the underlying causes of suicide through both unhealthy and healthy “undercurrents”
5. Create FST Trauma Playbooks to heal threats or acts of suicide in the “here and now”
6. Use the FST Feedback Loop to illustrate the suicide dance between parent and child

To request accommodations, please contact SFI at 800 735 9525 or by email at [email protected].

This course is provided by Savannah Family Institute, Inc. (SFI). The Family Trauma Institute is a division of Savannah Family Institute.  SFI is responsible for all aspects of this program.

Psychologists • Counselors • Social Workers • Psychotherapists • Marriage & Family Therapists • Addiction Counselors • Case Managers • Mental Health Professionals who have a master’s degree or higher in the mental health field or graduate level coursework at an accredited school

National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC): Savannah Family Institute (SFI) DBA The Family Trauma Institute has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No.5854.  Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. SFI is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Association of Social Work Boards: Savannah Family Institute, Inc. (SFI) (Provider #1725) is approved as a provider for social work continuing education by the Association of State Social Work Boards (ASWB) www.aswb.org, through the Approved Continuing Education ACE program.  SFI maintains responsibility for the program. ASWB Approval Period: 2/11/2020-2/11/2021. Social workers should contact their regulatory board to determine course approval. 

CE Process Information: A continuing education certificate for the event will be sent upon completion of requirements. Participants requesting continuing education credit must watch the entire webinar, pass the post-test, and complete the course evaluation to earn CE credit.  After completion of the course requirements, you will receive a continuing education certificate by email within 2 days completion.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding the CE process, please contact SFI at 800 735 9525 or by email at [email protected].