Suicide: Strategies for Assessment, Management and Prevention

This is a foundational course.Suicide has become an increasing social challenge in today’s stressful world. As clinicians we are faced with the need to balance respect for the choices and desires of our clients, with the need to avoid liability and blame for those choices. While suicide will always remain a personal choice, we can heighten efforts at suicide prevention by arming ourselves with adequate knowledge of risk and protective factors for suicide.