Counseling on Access to Lethal Means

• Estimated Course Length:  2 hrs. and 27 mins.
• CE Credits: 2.25 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 
• Refresher Videos: 8 provider videos to highlight key concepts
• Supplementary PDFs: 10 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); Physicians; 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 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 Objectives

What the learner should be able to describe and employ upon course completion:

1. Summarize the relationship between reducing access to lethal means and lowered mortality rates.

2. Compare the effects of helpful versus unhelpful language when talking about firearms with an at-risk client.

3. Describe the use of evidence based communication techniques in session to help at-risk clients reduce their access to lethal means.

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 (≥ 1 hour 40 minutes)

● Pre-Course Assessment (~10 minutes) [EXCLUDED FROM ACTIVITIES FOR NBCC CREDIT]

● Module 1: Why Means Matter (20+ minutes)

● Module 2: CALM Basics and Filmed Clinical Sessions (47+ minutes)

● Module 3: Virtual Role-Plays (6+ minutes)

● Post-Course Assessment (~17 minutes) [EXCLUDED FROM ACTIVITIES FOR NBCC CREDIT]

Course Activities NOT for CE Credit

● Participant Evaluation (5-10 minutes)

● (OPTIONAL) Supplementary Video Review