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Suicide-Focused Assessment and Treatment: An Update for Professionals

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Wednesday, October 20, 2021, 11:00 AM until 4:00 PM
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Suicide-Focused Assessment and Treatment: An Update for Professionals

Join us for this online course October 20, 2021 @ 12-5pm EDT (11am - 4pm CDT)

 

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The suicide rate has increased significantly over the past two decades, with nearly 50,000 people currently dying from suicide in America each year.

To respond to our field’s most pressing clinical challenge, national suicide experts will present the most recent, cutting-edge advances in suicide-focused assessment and treatment using a comprehensive online syllabus.

Sign up now for this free workshop. Optional continuing education credits (CME, CEU) are available.

Live attendance is required to obtain credits.

  • Wednesday

    October 20, 2021

  • ALL TIMES EDT

12:00 - 12:15
Welcome Remarks
Scott L. Rauch, MD – President and Psychiatrist in Chief, Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Chair of Psychiatry, McLean Hospital
Alan F. Schatzberg, MD – Director, Stanford Mood Disorders Center, Stanford School of Medicine
12:15 - 12:35
Suicide Prevention Overview: Science and Trends
Christine Moutier, MD – Chief Medical Officer, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
12:35 - 12:55
Overview of Suicide-Focused Assessment
Douglas G. Jacobs, MD – Founder, Stop A Suicide Today; Member, Suicide Advisory Committee, McLean Hospital
12:55 - 01:20
Suicide: Basic Facts
Ross J. Baldessarini, MD – Director, International Consortium for Mood & Psychotic Disorders Research, McLean Hospital
01:20 - 01:40
Suicide and Special Populations
Tami Benton, MD – Psychiatrist in Chief, Executive Director, and Chair of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
01:40 - 02:00
Assessment and Prevention of Suicide in Older Adults
Yeates Conwell, MD – Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center
02:00 - 02:10
Question and Answer Session
02:10 - 02:25
Break
02:25 - 02:45
Safety Planning: A Critical Intervention to Mitigate Suicide Risk
Barbara Stanley, PhD – Director, Suicide Prevention Training, Implementation and Evaluation Program, New York State Psychiatric Institute
02:45 - 03:05
Behavioral Health Care Crisis Care: The Role of 988 and Suicide Crisis Centers
Madelyn Gould, PhD, MPH – Irving Philips Professor of Epidemiology in Psychiatry at Columbia University, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
03:05 - 03:30
Innovations in Clinical Assessment and Treatment of Suicide Risk
David Jobes, PhD – Professor of Psychology and Associate Director of Clinical Training, Catholic University of America
03:30 - 03:40
Question and Answer Session
03:40 -04:00
Sleep Treatment for Suicide Prevention
Rebecca Bernert, PhD – Founding Director, Suicide Prevention Laboratory, Stanford University School of Medicine
04:00 - 04:20
Accelerated Theta Burst Repetitive Transmagnetic Stimulation for Suicide Prevention (Clinical Utilization of TMS)
Nolan Williams, MD – Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine
04:20 -04:40
Clinical Utilization of Ketamine in Suicide Prevention: Can We Improve Outcomes?
Alan F. Schatzberg, MD – Director, Stanford Mood Disorders Center, Stanford School of Medicine
04:40 - 04:50
Question and Answer Session
04:50 - 05:00
Summary and Concluding Remarks
Dr. Schatzberg and Dr. Jacobs




Accreditations and Approvals
Live attendance is required to obtain CE credits.

Physicians
Harvard Medical School is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Harvard Medical School designates this live activity for a maximum of 4.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Psychologists
McLean Hospital is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. McLean Hospital maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Participants meeting requirements will receive 4.5 CE credits.

Nurses
This program meets the requirements of the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Nursing (244 CMR 5.00) for 4.5 contact hours of nursing continuing education credit. Advance practice nurses, please note: educational activities which meet the requirements of the ACCME (such as this activity) count toward 50% of the nursing requirement for American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) accreditation.

Social Workers
This program has been approved for 4.5 social work continuing education hours for relicensure, in accordance with 258 CMR Collaborative of National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and the Boston College and Simmons Schools of Social Work authorization number D90607.

Social workers from New York and New Jersey: your licensing board may not accept credits from Massachusetts. You should contact them directly to see if they will allow NASW-MA credits for relicensure.

NBCC-ACEP-clear-webLicensed Mental Health Counselors
McLean Hospital has been approved by the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC) as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6085. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. McLean Hospital is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. This offering meets the requirements for up to 4.5 NBCC hours.

Disclosure Policy
McLean Hospital adheres to all ACCME Accreditation Criteria and Policies. It is McLean’s policy that those who have influenced the content of a CME activity (e.g., planners, faculty, authors, reviewers, and others) disclose all relevant financial relationships with commercial entities so that McLean may identify and resolve any conflicts of interest prior to the activity. These disclosures will be provided in the activity materials along with disclosure of any commercial support received for the activity. Additionally, faculty members have been instructed to disclose any limitations of data and unlabeled or investigational uses of products during their presentations.

Disclaimer
CME activities accredited by McLean Hospital are offered solely for educational purposes and do not constitute any form of certification of competency. Practitioners should always consult additional sources of information and exercise their best professional judgment before making clinical decisions of any kind.