In Session: Practicing Clinical Skills to Prevent Suicide in Older Adults
Hours: 1.00
If you ask the average American which age group has the highest rate of suicide, many people will state that adolescents are at greatest risk. Perhaps you have encountered the statistic that reports suicide as the second leading cause of death among adolescents and young adults (Hedegaard et al., 2020). It can be easy for people, even experienced clinicians, to misunderstand that statistic, rather than evaluating it within an appropriate context of mortality risk factors. Suicide among young people is a serious problem. However, this cohort is not among those with the highest risk for suicide. The number of suicides annually in adults over 65 exceeds all others (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2020). Despite this fact, suicide is not among the top 10 leading causes of death for this age group. This reflects the increased rates of other causes of death that are more likely to impact people as they age, such as heart disease and cancer. However, according to data from the CDC, from 1999 through 2018, men over the age of 75 had the highest rate of suicide in the U.S. (Hedegaard et al., 2020). Lack of awareness of the elevated risk of suicide among older adults can lead to a failure to appropriately assess for potential suicide risk and to effectively intervene to reduce that risk. This course will provide you with an opportunity to apply your existing knowledge of suicide prevention to assess and intervene with an at-risk older adult, Jimmy. By interacting with him in a simulated therapy session, you will see how your selection of responses impacts his level of risk and his outcome. Supervisory input will also help guide you through this simulation exercise. If you have not participated in in-depth training on suicide risk assessment and interventions, we recommend that you review our other suicide prevention courses first. After learning about evidence-based approaches for reducing suicide risk, you can then use this simulation to reinforce your knowledge. The goal of this course is to provide alcohol and drug counseling, behavioral health counseling, marriage and family therapy, psychology, and social work professionals in health and human services settings with an opportunity to apply their existing knowledge to assess and intervene with an at-risk older adult.
If you ask the average American which age group has the highest rate of suicide, many people will state that adolescents are at greatest risk. Perhaps you have encountered the statistic that reports suicide as the second leading cause of death among adolescents and young adults (Hedegaard et al., 2020). It can be easy for people, even experienced clinicians, to misunderstand that statistic, rather than evaluating it within an appropriate context of mortality risk factors. Suicide among young people is a serious problem. However, this cohort is not among those with the highest risk for suicide. The number of suicides annually in adults over 65 exceeds all others (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2020). Despite this fact, suicide is not among the top 10 leading causes of death for this age group. This reflects the increased rates of other causes of death that are more likely to impact people as they age, such as heart disease and cancer. However, according to data from the CDC, from 1999 through 2018, men over the age of 75 had the highest rate of suicide in the U.S. (Hedegaard et al., 2020). Lack of awareness of the elevated risk of suicide among older adults can lead to a failure to appropriately assess for potential suicide risk and to effectively intervene to reduce that risk. This course will provide you with an opportunity to apply your existing knowledge of suicide prevention to assess and intervene with an at-risk older adult, Jimmy. By interacting with him in a simulated therapy session, you will see how your selection of responses impacts his level of risk and his outcome. Supervisory input will also help guide you through this simulation exercise. If you have not participated in in-depth training on suicide risk assessment and interventions, we recommend that you review our other suicide prevention courses first. After learning about evidence-based approaches for reducing suicide risk, you can then use this simulation to reinforce your knowledge. The goal of this course is to provide alcohol and drug counseling, behavioral health counseling, marriage and family therapy, psychology, and social work professionals in health and human services settings with an opportunity to apply their existing knowledge to assess and intervene with an at-risk older adult.
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Identify risk factors and warning signs for suicidality in older adults.
Indicate the appropriate steps to assess an individual’s level of suicide risk.
State the essential interventions to implement based on the level of identified risk.
Outline:
Section 1: Introduction
About This Course
Learning Objectives
Section 2: Setting, Characters, and Prompts
Introductory Bio
Prompts and Responses
Evaluate Jimmy’s Risk
Jimmy’s Safety Plan
Next Steps
Section 3: Conclusion
Summary
Course Contributors
Resources
References
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.Expert Reviewer: Kimberly Roaten, Ph.D., CRC
Kimberly Roaten, Ph.D., CRC, received her Master of Science in Rehabilitation Counseling and her Doctor of Philosophy in Clinical Psychology degrees from UT Southwestern Medical Center. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at UT Southwestern and the Director of Quality for Safety, Education and Implementation for the behavioral health service line at Parkland Health & Hospital System (PHHS). Dr. Roaten is an attending psychologist on the Consultation/Liaison Psychiatry team at Parkland Memorial Hospital where she supervises psychiatry and psychology trainees. She serves as an ad-hoc reviewer for numerous peer-reviewed journals, is a member of multiple national committees related to patient care and safety, and has published numerous peer reviewed articles related to suicide risk assessment. Dr. Roaten leads the universal suicide screening program at PHHS in which more than 40,000 suicide screenings are completed per month. Dr. Roaten and her team members have been invited to speak locally and nationally about population health strategies for suicide prevention.
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