Objectives

• Learn the basic principles of suicide assessment
• Identify ways to estimate suicide risk
• Identify the necessary components for a suicide assessment
• Identify risk management methods including consultation, documentation
• Identify methods for determining appropriate placement
• Understand the factors contributing to suicide risk
• Apply criteria for receiving community services, including fee and funding structures.
• Access community agencies and service providers, and their mission, function, resources, and quality of services offered
• Identify service gaps and advocate for new resources.
• Identify managed care and other systems affecting the client.
• Use appropriate technology to access, collect, summarize, and transmit and document data on client including assessment, reassessment, change and discharge data.
• Communicate respect and empathy for cultural and lifestyle differences.
• Demonstrating appropriate written and verbal communication.
• Establishing trust and rapport with colleagues in the community.
• Assess level and intensity of client care needed.
• Interpret, prioritize, and use client information.
• Solicit comprehensive and accurate information from numerous source including the client.
• Work with client to select the most appropriate treatment.
• Involve family and significant others in treatment planning.
• Advocatefor client services.
• Establish appropriate boundaries with client and significant others
• Deliver case presentation
• Participate in interdisciplinary team building, negotiation, advocacy, conflictresolution, problem solving, and mediation.
• Observe and identify problems that might impede progress.
• Obtain informed consent and necessary releases of information
• Communicate with the client, family and significantothers, and with other
• service providers within the boundaries of existingconfidentiality regulations.
• Establish and maintaining non-judgmental, respectful relationships with clients and other service providers.
• Apply the confidentiality regulations when communicating with agencies.
• Implement follow-up and aftercare protocols.
• Assess adherence to treatment plans.
• Applying treatment outcome measures.
• Maintain contact and collaborate with client, referral sources, and significant
• others.
• Engage client in the treatment process.
• Access information from referral sources. .