Module 2: Suicide Risk Assessment and Intervention

Module 2: Suicide Risk Assessment and Intervention
(3 CEUs)

Instructor: Stan Taubman

This course focuses on suicide risk assessments and interventions in clinical practice.

Format: Mixed-media 1 — Read online content that incorporates case vignettes, reader exercises, and web-based video clips.

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Course Agenda

1. Instructions
1. Pretest Instructions
2. Pretest
1. Course Overview
1. Introduction
2. Print Posttest Study Guide
3. Suicide Prevention: What Is Being Prevented?
4. Primary Prevention Strategies
5. Secondary Prevention Strategies
6. Required Video: Person-Centered Care in Suicide Prevention (5:59 minutes)
7. Tertiary Prevention Strategies
8. Required Video: Suicide Postvention as Suicide Prevention (5:31 minutes)
1. Suicide and Mental Illness
1. Specific Indicators of Suicide Risk
2. Past Suicidal Behavior
3. Suicidal Ideation
4. Demographic Correlates
5. General Psychological Functioning Related to Suicide Risk
6. Psychological Impairments by Diagnosis
7. Relationships with Others
8. Protective Factors
9. The Practitioner’s Readiness
1. Suicidal Narrative for Bonnie
2. Suicidal Narrative for Bill
3. Suicidal Narrative for Jack
1. Vignette Description
2. Vignette Discussion
1. Reader Exercise Instructions
2. Exercise 1
1. Engagement Principles
2. Assessment Principles
3. Planning Principles
4. Intervention Principles
5. Required Video: Inside a Suicide Prevention Center in Puerto Rico | Times Documentary (10:39 minutes)
6. FCC Designates 988 for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
1. Discuss Suicide Openly
2. Encourage Daily Structure and Social Role Relationships
3. Create a Suicide Risk Containment Plan
4. Formulate an Initial Treatment Plan
5. Involve Significant Others
6. Assist Client in Developing Communication and Social Skills
7. Be Accessible to the Client
8. Discuss Relevant Perceptions and Feelings
9. Discuss Responsibility for Client’s Actions
10. Acknowledge Suicide as One Alternative
11. Stimulate Hope
12. Required Video: Three Phases of Suicidal Ideation | Utah Treatment Center (3:06 minutes)
13. Required Video: Marsha Linehan—Goals of Therapy: Cutting and Suicide Likely Won't Get You There (2:03 minutes)
1. Reader Exercise Instructions
2. Exercise 2
1. Case Vignette—Mary
2. Examples of Setting Goals and Objectives
3. Clarifying the Nature of the Problem
4. Identifying Relevant Strengths, Resources, and Methods
5. Acting on Strengths, Resources, and Methods
6. Identifying the Desired Outcome(s)
1. Negative Narrative: Peter Before Therapy (with cognitive distortions)
2. Positive Narrative: Peter After Therapy (without cognitive distortions)
1. Summary and Conclusion
1. Optional Resources
1. References
1. Posttest
1. Evaluation

About this course

$27.00
63 lessons

Course Details

Course Description

This is the second module in a two-part series focused on suicide risk assessment and prevention in clinical practice. Module 1 focuses on recognizing risk patterns in individuals and populations and explores the public perceptions of suicide, suicide as a public policy issue, laws pertaining to suicide, and the prevalence of suicide in the United States. Module 1 also addresses the correlates and causes of suicide, including gender-based, ethnicity-based, and age-based variations in suicide rates. Module 2 focuses on suicide risk assessments and interventions in clinical practice, including known causes and correlates of suicide, content to be included in suicide risk assessments, and specific intervention strategies. Both modules incorporate case vignettes, interactive exercises, short web-based videos, and optional resources. The online posttest must be passed with a score of 80% or better to print a certificate.

Target Audience

California Requirement: Since January 1, 2021, all California licensed clinical social worker (LCSW), licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT), and licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) applicants and licensees (upon renewal) have been required to complete at least six (6) hours of coursework or supervised experience in suicide risk assessment and intervention.
CEUs Nationwide: One or both modules can be used as continuing education and professional development for social workers and other professionals nationwide.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this course, readers will be able to do the following:

Identify correlates and causes of suicide.
Identify suicide risk factors by diagnosis.
Identify content for suicide risk assessment, including assessing past suicidal behavior, suicidal ideation, demographic correlates, and relationships, as well as protective factors.
Identify two commonly used structured suicide risk screening tools, as well as identified limits of such tools.
Identify the principles of crisis intervention and specific strategies for reducing the risk of suicide.
Identify the manner in which postvention can be utilized as suicide prevention.
Identify examples of intervention strategies, including ways to assist the client in identifying intervention goals and objectives.

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