Full course description
Continuing Education Offered
- 3 hours general asynchronous online
Description
Suicide is a leading cause of preventable death in the United States and worldwide. Nearly 50% of individuals who end life by suicide see a primary care provider within a month of death, yet suicide risk assessment and treatment is consistently difficult in practice. With the majority of mental health services in the US being delivered by social workers, it is imperative that risk assessment and safety planning knowledge and skills are in place for our work with clients with the ultimate goal being to prevent premature suicidal death.
This training will discuss and present on suicide as public health issue in the US, risk and protective factors, warning signs, barriers to help-seeking, risk assessment process and risk formulation, safety planning, and social justice in risk assessment with use of a clinical case example. This workshop is more specifically focused on the adult population.
Objectives
- Name one risk and one protective factor of suicide.
- Explain one aspect of suicide risk assessment.
- Describe one step of suicide safety planning.
Agenda
- Public health issue of fatal and non-fatal suicide behavior in the US
- Risk factors, protective factors, and warning signs
- Help-seeking barriers and facilitators
- Suicide Risk Assessment and Risk Formulation
- Clinical Case
- Synthesis, Social Justice, and Challenges in Practice
Instructor
CE Approval Statement
The University of Michigan School of Social Work, provider #1212, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. The University of Michigan School of Social Work maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 5/15/2023-5/15/2026.
Social workers participating in this course will receive 3 general continuing education contact hours.
Please see the CE Policies page for more information about continuing education.