Understanding Suicide to Prevent Suicide: A Deeper Dive
DESCRIPTION: Suicide leaves a lasting impact—not only on the families and friends affected, but also on the mental health professionals who provide care. The emotional toll can be profound, often leaving those impacted struggling to make sense of what happened and why.
Suicide, suicide attempts, and suicide ideation are difficult to predict and prevent This webinar is designed to bring clarity, confidence, and actionable steps for mental health providers.
Participants will learn to:
- Apply a framework that differentiates factors contributing to suicidal ideation from those that lead to suicide attempts.
- Apply an evidence-based, practical explanation for suicide that enhances intervention.
- Use real-world case examples and interactive discussion to translate research into meaningful clinical strategies
Through this training, you’ll gain a deeper understanding of what motivates suicide, why some individuals act on suicidal thoughts while others do not, and how to use this knowledge to reduce risk.
Target audience: This course is appropriate for all mental health professionals
Content level: Introductory/Intermediate
Educational Objectives
After attending this webinar, participants will be able to
- Explain the conditions under which suicidal desire develops
- Identify factors that facilitate progression from suicidal desire to a potentially lethal suicide attempt
- Utilize evidence-based suicide theory to better understand and reduce suicide risk
Syllabus
- Understanding Suicide
- We must get the science right
- The Ideation-to-Action Framework
- The Three Step Theory of Suicide
- Implications of Knowledge for Prevention and Prediction
- Suicidal Crises
- Suicide Prevention (not prediction)
- Case Examples and Discussion
- Exemplar Cases
- Your Context
- Questions and Answers