Florida Board Approved-- #50-20641

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Description:  This course entails (4) continuing education hours for Social Workers, Marriage and Family Counselors and Mental Health Counselors, providing the behavioral health professional with an overview of suicide prevention, risk assessment, diagnosis and treatment modalities.

Course Objectives:  

  • To examine the general epidemiology of the incidence and prevalence of suicide in myriad populations in order to determine risk factors and protective factors
  • To identify key risk factors and precipitating events that typically impact individual patients, such as comorbidity and situational/environmental events
  • To learn interventions to manage risk factors and precipitating events, particularly for high risk groups and individuals
  • To understand the clinician’s role in making a preliminary and ongoing assessment of a patient’s status vis a vis suicide potentiality
  • To review these precepts by examining key concepts
  • By increasing knowledge and understanding, to thereby improve clinical judgement so that robust interventions are employed to protect the life and health of patients

Course Curriculum

  • 1

    Suicide Assessment Diagnosis, Prevention and Treatment

    • Course Description

    • Course Objectives

    • Learning Objectives

    • Course Organization

    • Part One

    • The General Epidemiology of Suicide: Who is at Risk?

    • Other Risk Factors

    • Test: Part One

    • Part Two

    • Theories Concerning Suicidality

    • State and Trait Risk factors for Suicide

    • Psychache Theory of Suicide

    • The Interpersonal Theory of Suicide

    • Myths about Suicide

    • Additional Guidelines

    • Preventative Measures (CDC, 2018)

    • Special Considerations

    • Test: Part Two

    • References

    • Course Evaluation

About the instructor

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