Format: Live-online Lecturer Led Classes (Virtual-Classroom) via Zoom

Duration: 1 Evening Every Week 6pm to 9pm

Online Live Attendance: 30 Hours

Self-Directed Learning: 30 Hours

Total CPD Credits: 60 Credits

Assessment: Written Assignment +/- Viva Voca Assessment

Award: Accredited Professional Diploma

Course Accreditation:

- Professional Development Consortium

- Provider of Excellence

- CPD Standards Office

- Irish Counselling & Psychotherapy Association (ICPA)

- Irish Counselling & Psychotherapy Association (Directory)

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Week 1 – Foundations of Suicide Prevention

• Lecture: History, epidemiology, global and local data

• Workshop: Challenging myths and stigma

• Readings: WHO Live Life Strategy, SAMHSA Suicide Prevention Toolkit

• Assessment: Reflective journal on language and stigma (500 words)

Week 2 – The Psychology of Suicide

• Lecture: Theoretical frameworks (Interpesonal Theory, IMV Model, Psychache)

• Case study: Analyzing pathways from ideation to action

• Workshop: Understanding lived experience narratives

• Assessment: Short essay (1000 words) applying theory to case

Week 3 – Risk and Protective Factors

• Lecture: Epidemiological risk profiling

• Workshop: Creating biopsychosocial formulations

• Assessment: Risk formulation exercise (graded practical)

Week 4 – Assessment and Crisis Recognition

• Lecture: Tools and structured professional judgment

• Practical Workshop: Conducting simulated suicide assessments

• Guest Speaker: Clinical psychologist or crisis service professional

• Assessment: Recorded role-play (pass/fail competency)

Week 5 – Intervention & Safety Planning

• Lecture: Overview of intervention models

• Workshop: Safety plan development in triads

• Reading: Stanley & Brown (2012) Safety Planning Intervention

• Assessment: Safety plan submission & rationale (750 words)

Week 6 – Working with Special Populations

• Lecture: Culturally safe and inclusive approaches

• Panel Discussion: Voices from diverse communities

• Assessment: Group presentation – targeted prevention strategy

Week 7 – Ethics, Law, and Professional Practice

• Lecture: Legal duties, documentation, and ethical dilemmas

• Workshop: Scenario-based decision making

• Assessment: Case-based legal/ethical analysis (1000 words)

Week 8 – Postvention and Recovery

• Lecture: Bereavement care, trauma responses, organizational postvention

• Workshop: Designing a postvention protocol

• Assessment: Draft organizational postvention plan (graded)

Week 9 – Community & Systems Prevention

• Lecture: Population-level approaches, national strategies

• Workshop: Policy analysis and prevention campaign design

• Assessment: Capstone project proposal

Week 10 – Integration, Reflection & Capstone

• Lecture: Integration of learning and professional identity

• Workshop: Supervision, resilience, and self-care strategies

• Assessment​

Professsional Diploma in Crisis Intervention & Suicide Prevention (Live Online)- (LIVE ONLINE)
60 CPD POINTS

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