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Earn 6 total CEUs, including 2 CE hours in Suicide Prevention! -> Increase overall retention rates! -> Establish strong client rapport! -> Meets Utah’s Requirement for Continuing Education in Suicide Prevention! This training qualifies as continuing education for mental health professionals as defined by the Utah Department of Professional Licensing (DOPL). R156-60-304, R156-61-302h Learning Objectives - The Role of Therapeutic Alliance in Retention: Participants will be able to identify and define the correlation between therapeutic relational alliance and client retention, along with key considerations when working with family systems. - Tools for Relational Efficacy: Participants will explore a model for enhancing relational effectiveness and aptitude, along with several tools for assessing relational alliance in individual, group, marriage, and family therapy sessions. - Retention Strategies That Work: Participants will gain experience with numerous retention strategies to be utilized in therapeutic sessions along with retention strategies specific to clients at risk for suicide. - Operationalizing Retention Efforts: Participants will be able to take home and apply informed retention principles to use in their everyday therapeutic practice with individuals, groups, couples, and families, as well as client populations at risk for suicide. Client retention is integral to the work of a mental health professional and requisite to supporting lasting healing in the lives of those they serve. Retaining a client through program completion is also central to any thriving mental health organization. Studies cite client retention as weighted heavier in value than marketing efforts to obtain new clientele. Retaining clients, especially those at risk for suicide, has never been more important. Yet retaining clientele long enough to achieve clinical goals continues to be one of the most elusive challenges facing mental health professionals today.