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sential support for children, parents, school staff, and com munities. Participants will assess therapeutic interventions and how to guide families through grief counseling, crisis intervention, and long-term recovery. Additionally, partici pants will develop and implement a parent program, offer ing strategies for caregivers to support children exposed to violent experiences while also emphasizing the importance of self-care for parents. Participants will identify practical tools to help those affected by trauma while fostering resil ience and healing by examining two case studies of fami lies affected by this type of tragedy. Attendees will apply the critical role of self-care as a therapist and engage in a guided biblical-based meditation for faith-based clinicians. Learning Objectives 1. Describe how fear and trauma from school violence, in cluding mass shootings and threats, affect mental health, leading to anxiety, depression, and stress, and how these ex periences can also cause vicarious trauma in those indirectly involved. 2. Assess effective grief counseling, crisis intervention, and long-term recovery strategies to guide individuals and groups through the healing process, focusing on therapeutic roles and best practices. 3. Develop and implement a comprehensive parent program that includes strategies to help caregivers support their chil

dren’s emotional recovery while prioritizing self-care and emotional well-being for parents and caregivers. 304. Death Wish or Self Medication?: Risk-taking Behav iors as Expression of Underlying Post-traumatic Stress Disorder 1.25 credit hours Continuing Education Accreditations applicable to this workshop: APA, NBCC, ASWB, NAADAC, IBCC, Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy, and Mental Health Counseling Continuing Medical Education Accreditations applicable to this workshop: AMA PRA Category 1 Credit, AOA Category 2A credits, Georgia Nurses Association, AAFP Level: Advanced Tim Murphy, Ph.D. Fortis-Future

Summary According to current research, approximately 70% of indi viduals will experience trauma, with 10-20% developing long term symptoms of PTSD, including negative self-perception, hypervigilance, sleep disturbances, irritability, anxiety, de pression, and suicidal ideation. Suicidal behaviors may mani

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