2024 Suicide Care Trainings
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In collaboration with the Behavioral Health Training Partnership we are pleased to offer suicide care trainings for mental health professionals and health care providers supporting individuals who may be at risk of suicide. These unique training opportunities are made possible through grant funding from the Department of Health Services to promote best practice and evidence-based techniques in recognizing, assessing and managing suicidal thoughts and behaviors. Interested participants must be practicing in Wisconsin.
Training access instructions will be emailed to registered participants one week prior to the training. If you have not received your email, please email bhtp@uwgb.edu or Joanne tulachkj@uwgb.edu.
3 hour self-paced course
CAMS Foundational Video Course
BHTP will review your registration, and upon approval, submit your name and email address to CAMS Care, LLC. You will then receive an email from CAMS Care, LLC, with instructions for accessing the course. This is a 3-hour self-paced course.
Participants will have 60-days to complete this video course through CAMS Care, LLC.
Fee: $15
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The CAMS (Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality) framework is an empirically supported, suicide-specific approach to assessing, managing, and treating suicidal risk and pain. This framework is intended to increase clinician comfort in planning and prioritizing outpatient care for suicidal clients. It has been adapted for use in mobile crisis/emergency departments, acute and residential psychiatric units, and outpatient settings ranging from counseling centers and practices to hospitals and IOP. Click here for the full course description.
April 18, 2024
8:30am - 12:30pm CST
Virtual via Zoom
Fee: $15
Trainer(s): David Rozek, PhD, ABPP
Continuing Education Hours: 4.0
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This workshop is designed to enhance individuals’ knowledge about crisis response planning for managing acute suicide risk, and to increase their ability to confidently and competently administer this intervention with at-risk individuals. The first half of the workshop provides didactic knowledge about suicide, the development of the crisis response plan intervention, and its empirical support, all of which are designed to increase knowledge. The second half of the workshop includes clinical demonstrations by the instructor and skills practice by attendees, which are designed for individuals to acquire skill competency.
Learning Objectives:
- To describe the primary motives for suicidal behavior
- To effectively conduct a narrative assessment of the index suicidal crisis
- To identify the core components of a crisis response plan
- To help a suicidal individual identify and implement strategies that can reduce their suicide risk.
May 22, 2024
8:30am - 4:15pm CST
Virtual via Zoom
Fee: $35
Trainer(s): Suzanne Levy, Ph.D.
Continuing Education Hours: 6.25
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Attachment Based Family Therapy is a manualized, empirically informed family therapy model specifically designed to target family and individual processes associated with adolescent suicide and depression. ABFT emerges from interpersonal theories that suggest adolescent depression and suicide can be precipitated, exacerbated or buffered against by the quality of interpersonal relationships in families. Tested with diverse families, including low- income and minority families, ABFT is a trust-based, emotion-focused psychotherapy model that aims to repair interpersonal ruptures and rebuild an emotionally protective, secure-based parent–child relationship.
Treatment is characterized by five treatment tasks:
- Reframing the therapy to focus on interpersonal development
- Building alliance with the adolescent
- Building alliance with the parents
- Facilitating conversations to resolve attachment ruptures
- Promoting autonomy and competency in the adolescent
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June 19-20, 2024
8:30am - 4:30pm CST each day
Virtual via Zoom
Fee: $70
Trainer(s): David Rozek, PhD, ABPP
Continuing Education Hours: 13.0
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This two-day workshop is geared towards mental health professionals seeking to acquire entry-level information and training on the assessment, management, and treatment of suicide risk among suicidal individuals. The first portion of the workshop provides intensive training in core competencies for the clinical care of suicidal patients, including general interpersonal dynamics, standardization of suicide-related terminology, and documentation strategies. The workshop then provides a detailed, step-by-step review of the 12-session brief cognitive behavioral therapy (BCBT) treatment protocol. Practical strategies for effective treatment delivery are provided using case examples, role plays, videos, and skills practice, which illustrate concepts and interventions.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe an empirically-supported biopsychosocial model of suicide.
- Effectively discuss with patients the risks of suicidal behavior both in and out of therapy as a routine part of informed consent.
- Understand common issues of confidentiality when working with military patients.
- Conduct a risk assessment interview in a manner that increases accurate & honest disclosure of suicidal ideation & behaviors.
- Develop a written treatment and services plan that addresses suicide risk and is based on empirically-supported interventions.
- Effectively provide means restriction counseling to suicidal patients.
- Develop a written crisis response plan to reduce acute suicide risk.
- Use cognitive strategies and interventions to undermine suicidal beliefs that contribute to suicidal behaviors.
- Explain and administer a relapse prevention task for reducing suicidal behaviors.
August 5, 2024
8:30am - 3:30pm CST
Virtual via Zoom
Fee: $35
Trainer(s): Lesley Chapin, Psy.D.
Continuing Education Hours: 6.0
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In Wisconsin, suicide is currently the second leading cause of death amongst individuals ages 10-44. While training on identifying common risk factors for suicide is becoming more common amongst professionals without clinical training, up to half of the mental health clinicians tasks with treating this population of potential clients have little or no training in suicide risk assessment and management, let alone best practices in this area of care. Dialectical Behavior Therapy is an evidence-based practice originally designed to treat individuals at high risk for suicide and is currently used in a variety of clinical populations and settings and remains the gold standard treatment for borderline personality disorder. This training will provide participants with knowledge on suicide risk factors and assessment as well as managing suicide risk within the context of DBT and/or DBT-informed conceptualization and intervention. The workshop will address the importance of behavioral assessment, case formulation, behavioral principles, and team support in the process of addressing life threatening behavior.
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September 4-5, 2024
8:30am - 11:45am CST each day
Virtual Learning via Zoom
Fee: $35
Trainer(s): Joanne Tulachka, MA, LPC, CSAC
Continuing Education Hours: 6.5
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AMSR for Outpatient Settings is a one-day training workshop for behavioral health professionals. The 6.5-hour training program is based on the latest research and designed to help participants provide safer suicide care. Health care providers face many challenges when working with patients and clients at risk for suicide. Some patients may not disclose thoughts of suicide, and even when they do, the health care provider must make judgment calls about unpredictable outcomes, often with insufficient or contradictory information. This training will develop the five areas of competency for AMSR:
- Approaching Your Work
- Understanding Suicide
- Gathering Information
- Formulating Risk
- Planning and Responding
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UWGB Behavioral Health Training Partnership