Course

Fall '25 Suicide Care in Healthcare Systems - Track 2: Using the DBT Approach to Treat Suicide Risk

Sep 8, 2025 - Sep 22, 2026
6.75 credits

$180 Enroll

Full course description

You are registering for Track 2 - Using the Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Approach to Treat Suicide Risk.

If you are interested in registering for Track 1 - General Management & Treatment of Suicide Risk or Track 3 - Clinical Child Treatment Applications, see those listings at https://cspar.omscatalog.uw.edu/.

About 

The Suicide Care in Healthcare Systems virtual, live 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: 1) Overview of Suicide Care and 2) Using the Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Approach to Treat Suicide Risk.

Training Features

  • Live, Interactive Training via Zoom

  • Course materials and recordings from all tracks accessed in Canvas

  • Meets Requirements for WA State 6-hour Advanced Suicide Assessment, Management, and Treatment

  • Continuing Education Credit available

    • 6.75 credits for attending Part 1 & Part 2 live

    • Optional: Additional 10.5 credits possible upon review of recordings for other tracks and passing a quiz

Session Details

Part 1: Overview of Suicide Care with Dr. Jeffrey Sung

Monday, September 8, 2025 8:00am – 12:00pm Pacific

Upon completion of this session, you will be able to:

    1. Use recommended prompts to elicit a narrative when a patient screens positive for suicide risk.
    2. Organize risk and protective factors heard in a narrative into clinically actionable categories.
    3. Conduct a suicide-specific assessment using questions from the Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale Lifetime/Recent version.
    4. Use Rocky Mountain MIRECC Therapeutic Risk Management Risk Stratification Table to assign levels of suicide risk based on severity and temporality of risk.
    5. Identify categories of intervention for management of suicide risk.

Part 2 - Track 2: Using the Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Approach to Treat Suicide Risk with Dr. Kate Comtois

Wednesday, September 10, 2025, 8:00am – 12:00pm Pacific  

Upon completion of this session, you will be able to:

    1. Describe the evidence base for DBT as gold standard treatment for suicidal behavior. 
    2. Identify treatment targets and linking to life worth living goals. 
    3. Conduct behavioral chain analysis with patients. 
    4. Utilize DBT crisis plans and problem focused solutions for suicide recovery.

Pricing 

  • $180* - Community Clinicians not affiliated with the Suicide Care Research Center 
  • Free* - UW Medicine, Seattle Children’s Hospital, and VA Puget Sound faculty, clinical staff, and trainees, or community clinicians affiliated with the Suicide Care Research Center. 
    • Use relevant discount code at check out: 

UW-AFFILIATE or SCH-AFFILIATE or VAPS-AFFILIATE or SCRC-AFFILIATE

  • *Additional $25.00 for optionally claiming a CME or CE certificate. You will purchase this after the live training. 

A Note on Using Canvas  

Use of Canvas is optional for the live sessions; however, we encourage it as we will post materials, instructions for claiming continuing education, and recordings for later viewing. 

 

Upon registering, and if you haven’t attended a training from UW CSPAR before, you will receive instructions to register for the UW CSPAR Canvas instance. For those in UW Medicine, 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.  

 

If you intend to watch the other sessions you did not attend live to receive additional continuing education credit, you will access those materials in Canvas. 

 

Questions?  

Email cspartrainings@uw.edu . We do our best to respond within 24-48 hours.  

Disclosures

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

 

Kate Comtois, PhD (Planner & Presenter) recieves 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) and Suicide Care Research Center (SCRC) both within the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences. SCRC receives funding from the National Institute of Mental Health grant number P50MH129708. 

WA DOH approved training (program approval number: TRNG.TG.61614880-SUIC) to meet requirements for WA State 6-hour Advanced 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 17.25 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.