The Assessment, Clinical Management and treatment of Suicidality: Integrating Recent Advances into Clinical Practice.

Course overview

This workshop will address the full spectrum of issues and challenges in the clinical management of suicide risk in clinical practice.  An empirically informed CBT model will be provided, integrating the latest scientific findings into a comprehensive framework that includes clinical examples for every element of care.  A structured clinical interview will be reviewed, including risk and protective factors, along with warning signs contextual and clinical), along with how to most effectively identify and differentiate levels of risk, to include acute and chronic features of risk formulation/response/documentation. A standard protocol for clinical management of suicide risk will be reviewed to include clinical demonstrations with identified component elements of informed consent, a commitment to treatment agreement, safety crisis response planning, and lethal means counseling safe storage. An empirically supported, brief treatment Brief Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Suicide Prevention will be reviewed and critical elements demonstrated. Issues related to Veterans and active duty military will also be reviewed.  The workshop will provide the latest findings related to effective clinical care with suicidal individuals.