This lecture was supported by Grant Number 6H79FG000999-01M001 from SAMHSA and provided under a Congressional Earmark from Representative Jamie Raskin. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of SAMHSA or Representative Jamie Raskin. 

About the speaker

Joyce King is the Program Director for the SSG Parker Gordon Fox Suicide Prevention Grant Program at Sheppard Pratt Health System and is responsible for the oversight, implementation, and coordination of suicide prevention services for eligible Veterans and their families. Ms. King is a licensed professional counselor and addictions counselor in the state of Maryland and a national certified counselor through the National Board of Certified Counselors. Ms. King has over 26 years of experience in behavioral health. In addition to her work with the Sheppard Pratt Health System, Ms. King has a small private practice caseload and is a crisis therapist at Johns Hopkins Suburban Hospital in the emergency department.

Ms. King is a proud Air Force Veteran of 16 years, who served honorably as a psychiatric technician, addictions counselor, senior non-commissioned officer, and superintendent for the Behavioral Health Flight at Malcolm Grow Medical Center. Ms. King deployed as a member of the 35th Medical Brigade Combat Stress Team in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. During her military service, Ms. King worked with the Air Force Surgeon General’s office and was instrumental in standing up the Air Force’s Wounded and Ill program in response to the President’s Commission on Care for America’s Returning Wounded Warriors. Ms. King was also hand-selected for the work group responsible for the development of the Air Force’s Deployment Transition Center that promote reintegration skills for redeployers at Ramstein AB Germany.
Ms. King has an associate degree from the Community College of the Air Force, a bachelor’s degree from University of Maryland University College, and a master’s degree from Grand Canyon University. Ms. King is currently a doctoral candidate at Grand Canyon University.

Disclosure Statements

Sheppard Pratt holds the standard that its continuing medical education programs should be free of commercial bias and conflict of interest. In accord with Sheppard Pratt's Disclosure Policy, as well as standards of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) and the American Medical Association (AMA), all planners, reviewers, speakers and persons in control of content have been asked to disclose any relationship he /she has with any entity producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients, during the past 24 months. All planners, reviewers and speakers have also been asked to disclose any payments accepted for this lecture from any entity besides Sheppard Pratt, and if there will be discussion of any products, services or off-label uses of product(s) during this presentation.

Joyce King, CSC-AD, LCPC, NCC,  reports that she no relationships with any entity producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients, during the past 24 months. She will not discuss any products, services, or off-label uses in this presentation. All conflicts have been mitigated through review.

Event Planners/Reviewers Disclosures: The following event planners and/or reviewers are reported as having no financial interest, arrangement or affiliation with any entity producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients, during the past 24 months: Larry Epp, EdD, Todd Peters, MD, Elizabeth Ryznar, MD, MSc, Louis Marino, MD, Devi Bhuyan, PhD, Faith Dickerson, PhD, Carrie Etheridge, LCSW-C, Tom Flis, LCPC, Lisa Illum, MLIS, MEd, and Jennifer Tornabene.