Foundations in the Safety Planning Intervention for Clinicians

• 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: 3 provider videos to highlight key concepts
• Supplementary PDFs: 5 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 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 Objectives

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

1. Critically appraise risk screening, assessment, and stratification tools utilized in determining client levels of suicide risk.  

2. Recognize and formulate a plan for management of: adaptations for adolescents, cultural humility, client reluctance, and challenging settings.

3. Create personalized safety plans in collaboration with clients at risk for suicide and provide psychoeducation on the utilization and storage of their  safety plan. 

Module 1: BEGINNING CARE AND IDENTIFYING RISK

Case study synopsis; course introduction; Aliyah’s story; beginning care; identifying risk; risk screening with Aliyah (roleplay); discussing the topic of suicide; risk and protective factors. 

Module 2: SAFETY PLANNING

Psychoeducation about the importance of safety planning; step 1 of safety planning (recognizing the warning signs of an impending suicidal crisis); psychoeducation on safety planning, the suicide narrative, the suicide risk curve, and step 1 with Aliyah (roleplay); step 2 of safety planning (using your own coping strategies), step 2 with Aliyah (roleplay), step 3 of safety planning (contacting others to distract from suicidal thoughts), step 4 of safety planning (contacting family members or friends who many help resolve the crisis), step 4 with Aliyah (roleplay), step 5 of safety planning (contacting mental health professionals or agencies), step 6 of safety planning (making the environment safer), step 6 with Aliyah (roleplay), before the encounter ends, evidence for the safety planning intervention.  

Module 3: CONSIDERATIONS AND CHALLENGES OF SAFETY PLANNING

Adaptations for adolescents, cultural humility, clinical encounters, challenging settings, being aware of negative reactions, clinician anxiety around treating suicidal clients.