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Assessment of Self-Injury and Suicidal Thoughts
What You’ll Learn:
- Identify risk and protective factors for pediatric suicide
- Learn pros and cons of suicide screening
- Learn how to conduct a safety assessment
- Identify conditions and characteristics associated with self-injury
- Identify 4 risk factors for when self-injury is most associated with suicide attempts
- Know how to ask about self-injury to understand its function and assess its dangerousness
Suicide Prevention: Standard Operating Procedures for the Primary Care Office
What You’ll Learn:
- Describe the rationale for screening for suicide in pediatric care settings
- Select appropriate screening tools for evaluating suicidal ideation in pediatric primary care
- Create standard operating procedures for suicide prevention in a pediatric care setting
Suicide Prevention Part II: Safety and Crisis Planning
What You’ll Learn:
- Learn evidence-based treatments for non-suicidal self-injury in children and adolescents
- Describe the specific components of an evidence-based safety plan intervention
- Discuss additional elements to consider specifically for kids when engaging in safety planning
Suicide Prevention Part I: Active Suicidality and Nonsuicidal Self-Injury
What You’ll Learn:
- Know how to differentiate suicidal behavior and nonsuicidal self-injury in children and adolescents
- Identify risk and protective factors for suicide in children and adolescents
- Learn how to conduct a suicide assessment
Understanding Adolescent Self-Injury
What You’ll Learn:
- Identify conditions and characteristics associated with self-injury
- Identify 4 risk factors for when self-injury is most associated with suicide attempts
- Know how to ask about self-injury to understand its function and assess its dangerousness
- Identify the 2 most common treatments most help kids who self-harm
