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Assessing and Managing Suicide Risk: Core Competencies for Mental Health Professionals

Course Content

• Participant Manual:

A Participant Manual (75 pages) is provided to all participants that includes an extensive bibliography for each section in the workshop, the curriculum content itself, workshop exercises, and space for note-taking and journaling.

• DVD: (90 minutes)
  
  
• - Introduction - 4 minutes
  
  
• - Client Interview: Developing a Therapeutic Alliance - 20 minutes
  
  
• - Client Interview: Eliciting Suicidal Behaviors, Ideation, and Plans - 10 minutes
  
  
• - Client Interview: Collaborative Planning - Crisis Response Plan - 18 minutes
  
  
• - Client Interview: Management of Care - 8 minutes
  
  
• - Panel Discussion: Formulation of Risk - 10 minutes
  
  
• - Panel Discussion: Policies and Practices for Inpatient and Outpatient Care - 12 minutes
  
  
• - Feedback Session of Clinical Interview - 5 minutes
  
  
• Resource Sheets:
  
  
• Pre-workshop reading:
  
  
  • - Resource Sheet #1: Core Competencies for the Assessment and Management of Individuals at Risk for Suicide
    
    
  • - Resource Sheet #2: The Language of Suicide (includes a pre-workshop exercise to complete)
    
    
  • - Resource Sheet #3: Suicide-Related Statistics
    
    
  • - Resource Sheet #4: Sources for the Latest Suicide Research
    
    
  • - Resource Sheet #5: Risk and Protective Factors (includes a pre-workshop exercise to complete)
    
    
  • - Resource Sheet #6: The Phenomenology of Suicide and First Person Narratives
    
    
• Other Resource Sheets:
  
  • - Resource Sheet #7: Eliciting Suicidal Ideation Behavior Plans
    
    
  • - Resource Sheet #8: Collateral Information
    
    
  • - Resource Sheet #9: Sample Treatment Plan Template
    
    
  • - Resource Sheet #10: Sample Consultation Agreement
    
    
  • - Resource Sheet #11: A Promising Treatment For Borderline Personalities
    
    
  • - Resource Sheet #12: Cognitive Therapy Reduces Repeat Suicides
    
    
  • - Resource Sheet #13: Anna Hyde (Patient Character)
    
    
  • - Resource Sheet #14: Formulation of Risk
    
    
  • - Resource Sheet #15 (College Course only): Involving Peers and Significant Others
    
    

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