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Working with Patients Presenting with Suicidal Behaviors:

Best Practices to Improve Assessment, Intervention, and Safety Planning

Virtual
2 CE Hours
Clinical, Suicide Prevention
Free

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Description

Most individuals who die by suicide were seen by a healthcare provider in the 30 days before their death. Improving our ability to assess, engage, and provide effective interventions for at-risk individuals will save lives. This presentation will demonstrate best practices and specific treatment interventions, including safety planning that all healthcare providers at various levels of care can implement to improve outcomes for patients at risk for suicide.

Target Audience
  • Counselors
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Psychologists
  • Physicians
  • Nurses
Educational Goal

The educational goal of this workshop is for participants to gain competency in assessing, intervening, and safety planning with patients experiencing suicidal behaviors.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Identify 3 considerations when conducting suicide risk assessments.

  • Describe 2 ways in which empathy increases hope in the suicidal individual.

  • Identify 5 key elements of safety planning.

  • Identify 3 alternatives to hospitalization when hospitalization is not recommended.

References

  • Freedenthal, S. (2018). Helping the suicidal person: Tips and techniques for professionals. Routledge.

  • Galynker, I. (2023). The suicidal crisis: Clinical guide to the assessment of imminent suicide risk. (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press.

  • Klonsky, D. & May, A. (2015). The three-step theory (3ST): A new theory of suicide rooted in the “ideation-to- action” framework. International Journal of Cognitive Therapy. 8(2) 114-129.

  • Michael, K. & Jobes, D.A. (2011). Building a therapeutic alliance with the suicidal patient. American Psychological Association.

  • Stanley, B., & Brown, G. (n.d.). Stanley-Brown safety planning intervention. https://suicidesafetyplan.com/

Introductory
Clinical
Suicide Prevention
Counselors

TPN.health has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7267. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. TPN.health is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

 

Course meets the qualifications for hours of continuing education credit for LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LPCCs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

 

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0220.

Addiction Counselors

This course has been approved by TPN.health, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #198061, TPN.health is responsible for all aspects of the programming. Counselor Skill Group: Legal, Ethical and Professional Development.

Social Workers

TPN.health, #1766, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 03/31/2022 – 03/31/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 2 continuing education credits.

 

Course meets the qualifications for hours of continuing education credit for LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LCSWs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

 

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0654.

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists

Course meets the qualifications for hours of continuing education credit for LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

 

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0097.

Psychologists

Pending approval.

CE Policy
This course is fiscally sponsored by Aetna Better Health Louisiana. There may be potential biases or conflicts of interest inherent to this relationship, and it must be disclosed to participants. These conflicts of interest have no bearing on the course content and have been resolved.
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Note: Time designated for waiting room, breaks cannot be counted toward CE credit.
Anna Lieber, LCMHC, NCC/CCMHC, DE

Anna Lieber, MS, LCMHC, NCC/CCMHC (she/hers) has over 25 years of experience in behavioral health in direct client care, program development, and administration. Anna is the Clinical Director of Westminster University’s Counseling & Counseling Education program. Her clinical work is currently focused on clinical supervision, suicide treatment/prevention, and program development. Before starting at Westminster, Anna was the chief clinical officer of a large psychiatric hospital, overseeing all inpatient and outpatient clinical services. Anna is passionate about behavioral health and the mental health counseling field and uses her drive to enhance the mental health profession by giving back through service. Anna is the past president of the Utah Mental Health Counselors Association, a Utah Crime Victim Reparations and Assistance Board member, and provides numerous training sessions for behavioral health and medical providers. Anna is a Nationally Certified Counselor and member of the NBCC, American Association of Suicidology, ACA, ACEs, AMHCA, and the LGBTQ+ Affirmative Therapist Guild of Utah. Anna has extensive experience in treatment and program development for many disorders and populations, including developmental trauma, military issues, dual-diagnosis, addiction, psychosis, PTSD/trauma, anxiety, mood, personality, and LGBTQIA+. Anna’s clinical interests include chronic suicidal behaviors, personality disorders, trauma/PTSD, obsessive-compulsive disorders, suicide prevention/postvention, and clinical supervision.

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