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Strengthening Your Suicide Assessment Skills

3 CE Hours
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About the Course

Are you looking for comprehensive assessment practices for assessing suicide in clients? If so, you will enjoy this recorded webinar where you will learn about comprehensive suicide assessment principles and practices. Evidenced-based screenings and assessments (there is a difference between the two!) will be presented, along with best practices for clinicians to complete a thorough suicide assessment in a conversational, empathetic manner. Case studies will illuminate important aspects of suicidality and assessment. Recommendations such as Donald Meichenbaum's "The Gold Standard" will be outlined. Learners will develop newfound confidence, skill, and resources to properly assess clients for suicide risk.

This course is based on the recorded webinar, Strengthening Your Suicide Assessment Skills created by Diane Bigler in 2023.

Publication Details

Publication Date: First Jun 2023

Presenter and Course Creator

Diane Bigler

Diane Bigler, LCSW, LSCSW, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Missouri and Kansas with over 25 years of experience in the mental health field. She has held clinical positions as an outpatient and in-home therapist, and clinical supervisor. Diane was an Adjunct Professor of Social Work for 10 years at The University of Kansas, School of Social Welfare and a Field Liaison and Field Instructor. She has also held administrative positions as a program Director and Coordinator. Diane is a popular local and national trainer on a wide variety of mental health and workplace development topics for clinicians and corporations. Diane is most passionate about providing quality professional development to clinicians, employees, and leaders. For fun, Diane loves to spoil her four Dachshunds and rock out to 80’s music.

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Target Audience

Counselors, marriage and family therapists,nurses, nurse practitioners, physicians, psychologists and social workers. This course is appropriate for intermediate levels of knowledge.

Learning Objectives

After taking this activity, you should be able to:

  1. 1 Recognize the value and responsibility for thorough suicide screening and assessment as a clinician.
  2. 2 Identify at least two empathic and non-judgmental techniques to elicit suicide risk in each client.
  3. 3 Formulate a minimum of three methods of implementing screenings and assessments to determine a client's suicide risk level and complete necessary documentation.
  4. 4 Explore core fundamentals of suicide, including etiology, risk levels, and motivations.

Disclosure to Learners

CE Learning Systems adheres to the ACCME's Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Medical Education. Any individuals in a position to control the content of a CE activity – including faculty, planners, reviewers, or others ― are required to disclose all relevant financial relationships with ineligible entities (formerly known as commercial interests).

The following relevant financial relationships have been disclosed by this activity's planners, faculty, and the reviewer:

Planners and Reviewers

The planners of this activity have reported that they have no relevant financial relationships.

Material Authors

There are no known relevant financial relationships to disclose.

Course Creator

Diane Bigler – None to report

Commercial support

There is no commercial support for this distance-learning course.

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This material is included for free with an annual or lifetime membership or individually for $30.00.

This course material is published by Diane Bigler. For your convenience, has partnered with Diane Bigler to make it available for purchase right here.

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