This webinar reviews the complex relationship between suicide and substance misuse, with a focus on opioid use disorder (OUD). Topics include methodological challenges in detecting drug poisoning suicides, recent clinical data on treatment-seeking patients who have survived opioid overdose, and intervention and prevention strategies for caring for patients with OUD.
Event & Training Types: General Webinar
Suicide Prevention in Native Populations: A Cultural Introduction
This webinar provides strategies and tips for health care professionals working with tribal populations. Common terms and definitions for Native American populations in the United States (US) were presented. A brief history of tribal nations and Native American cultural strengths was also reviewed.
Supporting Tribal Youth at Risk for Suicide: Honoring Children, Mending the Circle
This webinar reviews cultural adaptations of evidence-based treatments for Native American youth who have experienced trauma and are at risk for suicide. The presentation also compares evidence-based practice with indigenous ways of knowing.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Suicidal Behavior
This webinar will review the basic principles of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and discuss CBT for patients with suicidal behavior. The presentation will describe key components of suicide risk assessment and how to conceptualize treatment planning for patients with suicidal behavior, as well as safety planning and specific cognitive and behavioral techniques for suicidal patients.
Care Transitions from Inpatient to Outpatient Settings: Applying Best Practices
The risk of suicide after leaving inpatient behavioral health care is 200-300 times higher than for the general population and is highest within the first few days after discharge (Chung et al. 2019). This period of high risk lasts for up to three months after discharge (Olfson et al. 2016; Walter et al., 2019), and in the U.S. nearly 15% of people who died by suicide had contact with inpatient metnal health services in the year before death (Ahmedani et al., 2014). It is clear that the transition between inpatient and outpatient behavioral health care presents tremendous opportunity for closing a deadly gap in behavioral health care.
It is clear that the transition between inpatient and outpatient behavioral health care presents tremendous opportunity for closing a deadly gap in behavioral health care. Closing this gap requires inpatient and outpatient behavioral health organizations to work together and align strategies to ensure the safety of individuals who are likely at extremely high risk of suicide.
Closing this gap requires inpatient and outpatient behavioral organizations to work together an align strategies to ensure the safety of individuals who are likely at extremely high risk of suicide. The National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention developed Best Practices in Care Transitions for Individuals with Suicide Risk: Inpatient Care to Outpatient Care to guide both inpatient and outpatient systems in the pursuit and implementation of evidence-based and innovative strategies to improve care transitions. One of these strategies, family involvement, contributes to increasing connectedness with family and significant others which, after a suicide crisis, strengthens interventions and supports long-term recovery (Haselden et al., 2019; Olfson et al., 2000). Companion resources are now available to guide systems toward implementing care transitions best practices, including the Inpatient and Outpatient Health Care Self-Assessments, Inpatient and Outpatient Health Care Action Planning templates, and a family involvement educational handout.
This webinar focuses on the implementation of best practices in care transitions from inpatient psychiatric to outpatient behavioral health care settings. Two exemplar organizations will highlight their care transitions initiatives, discuss the application of best practice recommendations, and share how implementation support tools were leveraged to improve care transitions practices.
Suicide Prevention and Health Care Accreditation: A Panel Discussion with the Joint Commission
Health care systems play an integral role in suicide prevention. Data show that 83% of people who die by suicide have seen a health care provider within a year preceding their death.In 2012, the U.S. Surgeon General and the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention published a revised national strategyrecognizing the important role health care systems and health care providers have in suicide prevention. The report called on health care systems to make suicide prevention a “core component” of their work. The report also led to the development and wide adoption of the Zero Suicide framework, a quality improvement model with recommendations on values, culture, measurements, and practices that health care systems should adopt to address suicide risk.
In 2019, the Joint Commission updated its National Patient Safety Goal (NPSG) on Suicide Prevention in Healthcare Settings (NPSG 15.01.01), which aims to “improve the quality of care for those who are being treated for behavioral health conditions and those who are identified as high risk for suicide.”This goal aligns with the Zero Suicide framework and requires health systems to ensure their care includes suicide screening, risk assessments, training for staff, and safety planning. Establishing these suicide prevention practices as an accreditation requirement for health care systems was a tremendous step forward in the identification and treatment for people at risk of suicide.
This live panel discussion will focus on how to meet NPSG 15.01.01. The expert panel includes associate director Gina Malfeo-Martin, MSN, RN, of the Joint Commission; Ed Boudreaux, PhD, of the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School; and Brian Ahmedani, PhD, of Henry Ford Health. The panel discussion will focus on addressing common questions and issues frequently encountered by agencies seeking to meet NPSG 15.01.01 and how two leading health care systems achieve and even exceed the goal.
Intimate Partner Violence and Suicide: Intersections in Context and Practice
This webinar provides an overview of the intersection between intimate partner violence (IPV) and suicide in the United States. The presentation addresses considerations for screening and assessing for suicide risk in individuals who have experienced IPV. Information is provided on how to conduct effective safety planning for suicide prevention with individuals who have experienced IPV and are at risk for suicide.