Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality
CAMS-guided care is a philosophy of care and a therapeutic framework for suicide-specific assessment and treatment of a client’s suicidal risk. This is a flexible approach that can be easily integrated across treatment settings and in tandem with different treatment modalities. In CAMS-guided care the clinician and client collaborate in a highly interactive assessment process. Clinicians utilize client input and clients become the “Co-authors” of their own treatment plan. This course will provide you with the tools and resources you need to provide your best level of care. In each of this courses’ five modules, you will see Dr. Jobes, in video, as he integrates CAMS-guided care in a case study. Each module makes use of interactive E-learning and assessments, so you can check your knowledge gain. The CAMS course will provide learners with the unique opportunity to further support and understand the struggle of suicidal clients while keeping their perspectives ever at the forefront.
Course Overview
- Estimated Course Length: 2 hrs. and 30 mins.
- CE Credits: 2.50 continuing education/contact hours for social workers, psychologists, physicians, and nurses / 1.50 continuing education hours for counselors and marriage and family therapists
- Course Includes: 3 modules consisting of a mixed media approach with roleplays, video interviews with subject matter experts, animation explainer videos, knowledge games and more
- Provider videos: 2 provider videos to highlight key concepts
- Supplementary PDFs: 13 downloadable PDFs expanding on relevant course topics
- Target Audience: Mental Health Practitioners (licensed professional counselors, licensed clinical social workers, licensed psychologists, licensed marriage and family therapists, psychiatrists, behavioral health nurses)
- Level of Instruction: Advanced
- Prerequisite: None
- Instructional Method: Self-paced, interactive, hybrid of audio, text, video, and learning checks
- Accessibility Accommodations: Closed captioning of all audio and video components. In order to request further accessibility accommodations, please email support@psychhub.com.
- Completion Requirements: To obtain your CE certificate, you must complete a pre-test (not scored), progress through all course segments, complete a participant evaluation, and obtain a score of 80% or higher on a post-test quiz. Learners are expected to complete the quiz within 3 attempts. If unable to do so, the learner will need to re-review the course segments.
- Financial/Commercial Support Statement: This course has no commercial support.
- Conflict of Interest: This course has no potential conflict of interest or outside commercial support. Psych Hub's conflict of interest statement is found in the footer of the training center.
- Grievance and Refund Policies: Grievance and refund policies are found in the footer of the training center.
- Participation Costs: The cost to participate in this CE activity is included in the subscription registration fee.
- Course Creation Date: 8/31/2021
Learning Objectives
Course Objectives
What the learner should be able to describe and employ upon course completion.
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Explain CAMS as an evidence-based, suicide-specific, therapeutic clinical framework for effectively working with suicidal risk.
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Describe CAMS philosophy of care related to empathy, collaboration, honesty, and the building of the clinical alliance while increasing patient motivation.
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Complete a first session of CAMS using the Suicide Status Form (SSF) for assessment, stabilization planning, and the identification of patient-defined suicidal drivers that will be targeted and treated in the course of CAMS-guided care.
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Articulate interim sessions of CAMS and the use of the SSF for tracking suicidal on-going risk and treatment plan updating related to patient-defined suicidal drivers.
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Relate optional resources like the CAMS Therapeutic Worksheet that can help clarify direct and indirect drivers of suicidality
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Illustrate the use of the SSF for clinical outcomes and dispositions that brings CAMS-guided care to a close.
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Interpret the 10 key elements that define the CAMS model for effectively assessing and treating suicidal risk in your clinical practice.
Course Outline
TIMED COURSE OUTLINE
Since the course is interactive and each learner will proceed at their own pace, timing is not exact. These are approximations based on average pre/post-test time of pilot testers as well as the run-time of course videos and voiceover. This course does not have to be completed in one session.
COURSE ACTIVITIES FOR CE CREDIT (≥ 3 HOURS 36 MINUTES)
Pre-Course Assessment (~5 minutes) [EXCLUDED FROM ACTIVITIES FOR NBCC & CAMFT CREDIT]
Module 1: Introduction to CAMS and Session 1 (~1 hour 15 minutes)
Module 2: Interim Session 2 (~50 minutes)
Module 3: Interim Session 5 (~22 minutes)
Module 4: Interim Session 9 (~21 minutes)
Module 5: Interim Session 12 and Outcome Disposition (~22 minutes)
Post-Course Assessment (~21 minutes) [EXCLUDED FROM ACTIVITIES FOR NBCC & CAMFT CREDIT]
COURSE ACTIVITIES NOT FOR CE CREDIT
Participant Evaluation (~10 minutes)
Modified Practice Attitudes Scale (~5 minutes)
(OPTIONAL) Supplementary Videos for Learner
CE Information
American Psychological Association (APA)
Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB)
Social workers completing this course receive 4.25 clinical continuing education credits.
California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT)
National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC)
Certificate of Completion
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New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work (NYSED-SW)
National Association of Social Workers - New Jersey (NASW-NJ)
Approval #: 09232022-349, CE Approval Collaborative Approval Period: through August 31, 2026. Social workers will receive 4.25 clinical continuing education hours for participating in this course.
New York State Education Department - Licensed Mental Health Counselors (NYSED-LMHC)
New York State Education Department - Marriage & Family Therapists (NYSED-MFT)
New York State Education Department - Psychology (NYSED-PSY)
Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling
Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist Board
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