Suicide Safe Care for Patients

This presentation focuses on suicide within our culture with specific attention towards the role of primary care in assessment and intervention with high-risk suicidal patients.  The training is based on WICHE’s Suicide Prevention Toolkit for Primary Care Providers and the Zero Suicide Initiative. The training covers national and Montana data, demographics of a suicidal person, warning signs, depression screening with the PHQ-9, risk assessment utilizing the Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale and the ASQ, safety planning, lethal means counseling, and caring contact.  The training also focuses on evidenced-based practices, and resources available.

Learning objectives for this presentation include:

1) Participants will be able to complete a depression screen,

2) Participants will be able to complete a suicide risk assessment,

3) Participants will be able to complete a safety plan, and 4) participants will know the questions to ask concerning lethal means counseling and safe storage of firearms and medications.

Presented by Montana State Suicide Prevention Coordinator Karl Rosston, LCSW,