Approaches to Community-Based Suicide Prevention
Hours: 2.00
Accurate assessment, safety planning, and treatment are the cornerstones of suicide intervention. Suicide prevention also encompasses community-wide programs and interventions that target populations long before any elevated risk or suicidal behaviors occur. These programs tend to focus on bolstering protective factors against suicide while minimizing the development of risk factors. Depending upon your professional role, you may be involved in the implementation and organization of primary prevention programs. Even if you are less directly involved in primary prevention, providing quality care to your community means understanding the ways that these interventions are underway to bolster protective factors and prevent suicide. This course will examine community-based suicide prevention approaches that mitigate individual risk factors and support a comprehensive approach. You will learn how these early interventions impact suicide risk. You will also learn the role that connectedness, life skills, and resilience play in preventing suicide. Examples of specific programs and interactive exercises will support your learning of these concepts. The goal of this course is to provide social work, psychology, nursing, alcohol and drug counseling, marriage and family therapy, and counseling professionals in health and human services with information about community-based, upstream suicide prevention approaches. Note: This course focuses specifically on early interventions that are designed to reduce suicide risk. It does not focus on screening, assessment, or interventions with actively suicidal individuals. The Relias library has many additional suicide prevention courses that can help you improve your skills in screening, assessment, interventions, and postvention.
Accurate assessment, safety planning, and treatment are the cornerstones of suicide intervention. Suicide prevention also encompasses community-wide programs and interventions that target populations long before any elevated risk or suicidal behaviors occur. These programs tend to focus on bolstering protective factors against suicide while minimizing the development of risk factors. Depending upon your professional role, you may be involved in the implementation and organization of primary prevention programs. Even if you are less directly involved in primary prevention, providing quality care to your community means understanding the ways that these interventions are underway to bolster protective factors and prevent suicide. This course will examine community-based suicide prevention approaches that mitigate individual risk factors and support a comprehensive approach. You will learn how these early interventions impact suicide risk. You will also learn the role that connectedness, life skills, and resilience play in preventing suicide. Examples of specific programs and interactive exercises will support your learning of these concepts. The goal of this course is to provide social work, psychology, nursing, alcohol and drug counseling, marriage and family therapy, and counseling professionals in health and human services with information about community-based, upstream suicide prevention approaches. Note: This course focuses specifically on early interventions that are designed to reduce suicide risk. It does not focus on screening, assessment, or interventions with actively suicidal individuals. The Relias library has many additional suicide prevention courses that can help you improve your skills in screening, assessment, interventions, and postvention.
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Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling
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Illinois Professional Counselor/Clinical Counselor
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Louisiana Addictive Disorder Regulatory Authority
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Michigan Certification Board for Addiction Professionals
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Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist Board
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Ohio Social Worker Board
Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist Board (CEBroker Provider # 50-290)
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Florida Board of Nursing
Florida Board of Nursing (CEBroker Provider #50-290)
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Breining Institute for Registered Addiction Specialists
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Social workers will receive 2.00 continuing education hours for participating in this course. This activity is approved for 2.00 contact hours.
Florida Board of Psychology
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Georgia Board of Nursing
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South Carolina Board of Nursing
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Florida Board of Medicine
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Florida Physician Assistants
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West Virginia Board of Registered Nursing
West Virginia Board of Registered Nursing (CEBroker Provider #50-290)
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California Association of DUI Treatment Programs
New Mexico Board of Nursing
New Mexico Board of Nursing (CEBroker Provider #50-290)
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Arkansas State Board of Nursing
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Ohio State Medical Board
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Physicians will receive 2.00 AMA PRA category 1 Credits™.
Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners
Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners (CEBroker Provider #: 50-290)
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Connecticut Certification Board
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Ohio Chemical Dependency Professionals Board
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Content Area: C7
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Association of Social Work Boards - New Jersey
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Course Delivery Method and Format: Asynchronous Distance Learning Reading-Based Online
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Kentucky Board of Nursing
Kentucky Board of Nursing (CEBroker Provider #50-290)
Nurses will receive 2.00 contact hours for participating in this course.
Mississippi Board of Nursing
Mississippi Board of Nursing (CEBroker Provider #50-290)
Nurses will receive 2.00 contact hours for participating in this course.
North Dakota Board of Nursing
North Dakota Board of Nursing (CEBroker Provider #50-290)
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Mississippi Board of Examiners for Social Workers/Marriage & Family Therapists
This activity is approved for 2.00 contact hours.
Alcohol & Drug Abuse Certification Board of Georgia
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Explain what upstream suicide prevention means and why it is important.
Summarize the impact of connectedness as an upstream suicide prevention approach.
Describe how fostering life skills and resilience can help to prevent suicide.
Outline:
Section 1: Introduction
About This Course
Learning Objectives
Section 2: Upstream Approaches to Suicide Prevention
Meet Robert
What Do We Mean by Upstream Interventions?
Best Practice Guidelines and Upstream Approaches
Quick Check
Why Do We Need Upstream Interventions?
Protective Factors
Review
Summary
Section 3: Connectedness and Suicide Prevention
What is Connectedness?
The Impact of Connectedness
A Caveat About Connectedness
Peer Norm Programs
Community Engagement
Resource Access Through Connectedness
Working to Reduce Suicide Through Community Partnerships
Connectedness Levels, Bullying, and Suicide
Addressing the Factors Related to the Bullying-Suicide Link
Closing the “Us” Vs. “Them” Gap
Stigma and Help-Seeking
How You Can Use This Information
Review
Summary
Section 4: Life Skills, Resilience, and Suicide Prevention
What Do We Mean by Life Skills?
What Is Resilience?
Life Skills, Resilience, and Suicide Risk
Social-Emotional Learning Programs
Social-Emotional Learning for High-Risk Youth
Parenting Skills and Family-Based Programs
Strengthening Families to Prevent Early Adversity
Life Skills and Worksite Wellness
Strategies for Boosting Resilience
How You Can Use This Information
Review
Summary
Section 5: Conclusion
Summary
Course Contributors
Resources
References
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Monique Kahn, Psy.D. received her doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from Nova Southeastern University in Florida. She completed a pre-doctoral internship at Spokane Mental Health in Washington, which included specialty rotations in behavioral medicine and time-limited psychotherapies. She is licensed as a psychologist in Maine, where she was in private practice for 14 years, providing services to adult clients with varied presenting issues, but with particular emphasis on the treatment of anxiety disorders, the relationship between psychosocial stress and illness, insomnia, and coping with chronic illness. She has taught in the undergraduate psychology program at Husson University in Maine. In addition, she has worked as a content writer and psychology subject matter expert for several major educational publishing firms. She joined Relias as a clinical content writer and subject matter expert in 2016. Disclosure: Monique Kahn, Psy.D. has declared that no conflict of interest, Relevant Financial Relationship or Relevant Non-Financial Relationship exists.Expert Reviewer: Kathryn Falbo-Woodson, MSW, LCSWA
Kathryn Falbo-Woodson, MSW, LCSWA, is a licensed clinical social worker for Atrium Health-Levine Cancer Institute in Charlotte and Monroe, NC. She works extensively with adult cancer patients and their family systems in psychotherapy, supportive counseling, and case management throughout diagnosis, treatment, survivorship and death/dying. Kathryn also serves as president for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention-NC Chapter and is specially trained in bereavement of survivors of suicide. Kathryn earned her B.A. in psychology from West Virginia University, and her M.S.W. at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, serving as a PrimeCare Scholar and receiving specialized training in integrated healthcare. Disclosure: Kathryn Falbo-Woodson, MSW, LCSWA has declared that no conflict of interest, Relevant Financial Relationship or Relevant Non-Financial Relationship exists.
The target audience for this course is: Entry level Psychologists; Intermediate level Alcohol and Drug Counselors; Intermediate level Marriage and Family Therapists; Intermediate level Professional Counselors; Intermediate level Social Workers; Nurses; Physicians; in the following settings: Health and Human Services.
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