Course

Suicide Care in Community Mental Health Settings (Online Only)

Apr 7, 2025 - May 28, 2027

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About

The Suicide Care in Community Mental Health Settings online virtual training is designed to provide you with an understanding of how best to serve patients across the suicide care pathway. The training aims to synthesize evidence-based suicide interventions and the Joint Commission and other suicide prevention expectations into two parts: 

  • Part 1: Assessment and Management of Suicide Risk (4-hours) 
  • Part 2: Treatment of Suicide Risk with Caring Contacts and DBT (4-hours) 

 

Primary Presenter: Katherine Anne (Kate) Comtois, PhD, MPH

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Audience: Clinicians, physician's assistants, nurses, psychologists, social workers, substance use disorder professionals, peer specialists, and supporting staff. 

Where: Asynchronous Completion in Canvas

Continuing Medical Education (included with registration)

Part 1: Assessment and Management of Suicide Risk (3.25 CME)

Upon completion of this activity, you should be able to:

  1. Use recommended prompts to elicit a narrative when a patient screens positive for suicide risk.
  2. Describe how to embed suicide risk assessment into a suicide clinical narrative.
  3. Use the Rocky Mountain MIRECC Therapeutic Risk Management Risk Stratification Table to assign levels of suicide risk based on severity and temporality of risk.
  4. Distinguish between management and treatment of suicide risk.
  5. Identify the steps of the Safety Planning Intervention.

Part 2: Treatment of Suicide Risk with Caring Contacts and DBT (3.5 CME)

Upon completion of this activity, you should be able to:

  1. Describe characteristics of evidence-based and ineffective treatment.
  2. Describe the core principles of Caring Contacts.
  3. Distinguish between the goals and targets of treatment in DBT.
  4. Use a DBT chain analysis to understand a specific occurrence of suicidal thoughts or behavior.

A Note on Using Canvas 

Upon registering, you will receive instructions to register for the UW CSPAR Canvas instance. UW CSPAR uses a separate instance of canvas than UW Medicine. When setting up your account, you will indicate yourself as "student". If needed, you can review instructions for completing registration and account set up with Canvas Catalogue. 

Use of Canvas is required for completing the modules asynchronously.

Questions? 
Email cspartrainings@uw.edu. 

 

Acknowledgments

This training is an adaptation of a training developed in collaboration with Dr. Jeffrey Sung.

 

Disclosures

The opinions, views, interpretations, conclusions, and recommendations presented in this presentation are solely the responsibility of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of NIH or the Department of Defense or other funders of our work.

 

Kate Comtois, PhD (Planner & Presenter) receives financial compensation for DBT training and consultation through the Treatment Implementation Collaborative LLC.

 

All other presenters and planners have no financial relationships with an ineligible company relevant to this presentation to disclose. None of the other presenters and planners have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. 

Sponsors

This training is hosted by the University of Washington Center for Suicide Prevention & Recovery (CSPAR) within the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences. WA DOH approved training (program approval number: TRNG.TG.61614880-SUIC) to meet requirements for WA State 6-hour Suicide Assessment, Management, and Treatment. 

Continuing Education 

Accreditation with Commendation: The University of Washington School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Credit Designation: The University of Washington School of Medicine designates this other activity for a maximum of 6.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 

Credit for Other Professions: For the purpose of recertification, American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) accepts certificates of participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM from organizations accredited by the ACCME.

American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) accepts certificates of participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM from organizations accredited by the ACCME.

American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA) accepts certificates of participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM from organizations accredited by the ACCME.

The University of Washington is an approved provider of continuing education for DOH licensed social workers, licensed mental health counselors, licensed marriage and family therapists, psychologists, chemical dependency professionals, nurses and physicians under the provisions of: WAC 246-809-610, WAC 246-809-620, WAC 246-811-200, WAC 246-840-210, WAC 246-919-460 and WAC 246-924-240.

Please contact your certifying organization for clarification on credit eligibility.