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Digital Seminar

Treating Suicide Risk with Competence and Confidence: How to Move Beyond Our Fears


Faculty:
David Jobes, PhD, ABPP
Duration:
3 Hours
Copyright:
13 Mar, 2022
Product Code:
NOS096230
Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Access:
Never expires.


Description

The thought of a client dying by suicide can keep even experienced therapists up at night. Moreover, fear of malpractice liability often leads them to practice defensively, resulting in unnecessary hospitalizations that can significantly hurt therapy outcomes. This recording features evidence-based innovations in the assessment, management, and treatment of suicidal risk. Learn new suicide-focused clinical skills, such as how to evaluate different suicidal states and match them with the most effective interventions and treatments in face-to-face work or using telehealth. You’ll discover:

  • How to avoid unnecessary hospitalizations and an over-reliance on medications
  • Effective techniques to help suicidal clients manage states of acute risk through stabilization planning or use of technology and how to use telehealth to effective work with suicide risk
  • Evidence-based approaches to reliably assess, target, and treat clients’ suicidal risk and different suicidal states using frameworks such as Collaborative Assessment Management of Suicidality (CAMS), DBT, and suicide-focused CBT
  • How to use CAMS to differentiate direct vs. indirect patient-defined “drivers” of suicide and how to effectively target and treat drivers to decrease suffering and help save lives

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David Jobes, PhD, ABPP, is the developer of the Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality (CAMS) treatment method. He began his career in 1987 in the counseling center of The Catholic University of America, where he developed a suicide risk assessment tool for college students that evolved into an evidence-based treatment, CAMS, recognized by The Joint Commission, Zero Suicide, and the CDC. A 2021 meta-analysis of 30 years of research shows that CAMS is a “well supported” intervention for reducing suicidal ideation per CDC criteria. Dr. Jobes is a professor of psychology and associate director of clinical training at CatholicU. He has published seven books and hundreds of journal articles and book chapters focused on suicide-care and has trained thousands of mental health professionals in the United States and abroad in evidence-based assessment and treatment of suicide risk and the use of CAMS.


Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. David Jobes maintains a private practice and has employment relationships with The Catholic University of America and Uniformed Services University. He is the President of the Board of Directors for Washington Psychological Center. He receives compensation as a consultant and receives royalties as a published author. Dr. Jobes is a stock owner of CAMS-care, LLC. He receives grants from A Four Pines Fund, The University of Washington, The National Institute of Mental Health, and Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. Dr. Jobes receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. David Jobes is an Ad hoc reviewer and editor for several peer review journals, for a complete list contact PESI, Inc. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and a member of American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP).


Objectives

  1. Apply evidence-based assessment approaches that help stratify risk and reliably identify different suicidal states.
  2. Appraise risk-management techniques that help a suicidal client manage states of acute risk.
  3. Apply evidence-based treatments that effectively target and treat different suicidal states.
  4. Assess how to avoid unnecessary hospitalization with suicidal clients, which can hurt therapy outcomes.
  5. Utilize practices that help decrease the risk of suicide-related malpractice liability using face-to-face practice or telehealth.

Outline

  • Apply evidence-based assessment approaches that help stratify risk and reliably identify different suicidal states
  • Assess risk-management techniques that help a suicidal client manage states of acute risk
  • Apply evidence-based treatments that effectively target and treat different suicidal states (both face-to-face and using telehealth)
  • Assess how to avoid unnecessary hospitalization with suicidal clients, which can hurt therapy outcomes
  • Learn practices that help decrease the risk of suicide-related malpractice liability

Target Audience

  • Psychologists
  • Physicians
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Art Therapists
  • Nurses
  • Other Behavioral Health Professionals

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