Lanzarote will host the 'I Suicide Behavior Prevention Conference' on February 29, organized jointly with the Canary Islands School of Health and Social Services (ESSSCAN) and with the collaboration of the General Directorate of Mental Health and Addictions of the Ministry of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands.
In this sense, the president of the Island Council, Oswaldo Betancort, held a working meeting this Wednesday with the director of 'ESSSCAN', José Montelongo, and the Minister of Social Welfare, Marciano Acuña, to address the program and development of these important conferences whose objective is to "update knowledge and improve the training of health professionals in the Canary Islands and key non-health professionals to carry out preventive actions against suicidal behavior, assessment and intervention in all phases, including postvention."
These first conferences are aimed at health professionals, both Mental Health, Public Health, Primary Care and other specialties, as well as other professionals in the clinical field such as managers and key non-health professionals in matters of Education, Social Rights, Minors, Youth, Employment, Housing, Justice, among others, and the associations involved. However, the presentations may be followed by those professionals interested since they will be broadcast live by streaming.
Among the topics that will be addressed in these conferences are the "prevention of suicidal behavior in the child and youth population"; the keys to its prevention in the "educational field" and the "group intervention in minors" with emotional dysregulation and suicidal behavior.
Along with the different presentations and round tables, workshops will also be held for the youth population (ESO, Baccalaureate and FP students), with the aim of "training students in basic notions for the detection and management of suicidal risk" and thereby "preventing the risk" of suicide in children and adolescents, in addition to acquiring skills and abilities for the correct approach and management of the minor or adolescent with suicidal behavior.
