Suicide Assessment and Prevention

This 4 or 8 hour Suicide Assessment and Prevention Seminar is one of the best comprehensive collections of dynamic information offered to both the behavior health and general medical fields for recognizing, assessing and preventing suicidality within the workplace.  Using a concert of PowerPoint presentations, handouts, informative lecture and assessment exercises, the training will both provide the attendees with new and vital information when encountering possible suicidal individuals along with performing the practice of assessing situations during the class for themselves that will sharpen their skills and create more confidence when observing the clients we care for.  Supported and endorsed by Dr. David J. Knesper MD, one of the leading authorities in the field of Suicide Assessment and Head of the Department of Psychiatry at University of Michigan, this course will be one of the best learning experiences you or your staff has attended.

Objectives:

Following the Presentation, Participants will be able to:

1. Methodology in interviewing and assessing the suicidal individual within the healthcare setting.

2. Identify risk factors of suicide in an individual experiencing suicidal ideations and/or behaviors.

3. Active listening and communication techniques to help the suicidal individual to feel more comfortable

in sharing their honest thoughts and plans, while identifying prevention factors that can steer them

from their suicidal acts.

4. Help reduce the level of ambivalence from the client, while building a therapeutic alliance with the

healthcare professional and help to create a commitment for living.

5. Initiate a treatment plan or the suicidal client that helps to reduce the risk of hospital suicide, while

increasing the possibility of long term reduction in suicidality.

(4 and 8 Contact Hours)

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