Suicide: What Mental Health Professionals Need to Know
- Key risk and protective factors
- Differences between suicidal ideation, intent, plans, means
Assessment: What and How to Ask
- Strategies for asking direct questions, even when it is uncomfortable
- How to identify implicit suicidal intent
- Tools to engage withdrawn or resistant clients
- Trauma-informed principles to incorporate into suicide assessment
- Suicide screening tools
- Building an effective suicide assessment
Treatment Planning and Decision-Making
- Considerations for hospitalization
- Why “no harm” contracts are dangerous
- Constructing and implementing a safety plan
- Immediate psychosocial interventions
- When and how to involve family, friends, and community resources
- Limitations of the research and potential risks


