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Working with Suicidal Risk: The Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality (CAMS) and Other Evidence-Based Treatments

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Too often lack of training, confidence, or the fear of malpractice litigation ends with clinicians sending suicidal clients to emergency departments and hospitals …

…. where they receive little or no help.

And the research shows that this “passing off” of clients actually increases suicide rates, rather than prevents deaths.

But this doesn’t have to be the go-to-method for handling suicidality!

Dr. David Jobes, a preeminent suicidologist and developer of the Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality (CAMS) treatment method uses his over 30 years of expertise to give you ready-to-implement assessment and treatment strategies to increase between-session safety and stability!

You’ll get:

  • Tools for optimizing CAMs in a system of clinical care
  • Strategies and framework to keep clients engaged in treatment
  • Techniques for navigating barriers when adopting various treatment methods
  • Case studies and real-time review of how treatments are applied
  • Interventions to help clients cultivate purpose and meaning in their lives

If you aspire to save lives and decrease suffering, this is your chance to improve your practice and quality of care for client struggling with suicidality.

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Here's What You'll Learn

Factors that Contribute to Suicide Rates in Populations of the U.S.
  • Historic trends in national suicide rates
  • Larger social cultural issues
    • COVID-19
    • ”deaths of despair”
  • Consider serious thoughts of suicide:
    • What the SAMHSA data shows
    • The ideation-to-action framework
    • When thoughts transition into planning
    • When planning transitions to attempting
Issues Unique to Working with Suicidal Clients and Limitations
  • Medical-model bias that has little empirical support
  • The paralyzing fear of wrongful death malpractice liability litigation
  • Clinician avoidance of client who is suicidal
    • Defaulting to most restrictive practices
    • Lack of training
    • Lack of systems support for proven approaches
    • Zero suicide approach to raising the standard of suicide-care across systems of care
    • Other policy shaping suicide-focused care
Common-sense Approaches to Suicide Assessment and Acute Intervention
  • Different evidence-based screening and assessment approaches
    • The Ask Suicide Screening Questionnaire
    • The Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS)
    • Other assessment tools for suicidal risk
  • A look at acute stabilization
    • Use of safety-planning type interventions
    • Lethal means safety discussions
    • 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline and text line resources
Evidence-based Treatments for Suicidal Risk – An Overview
  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
  • Cognitive Therapy for Suicide Prevention (CT=SP)
  • Brief Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (BCBT and AVIVA)
  • Mentalization-based therapy
  • Attachment-Based Family Therapy (ABFT)
  • Attempted Suicide Short Intervention Program (ASSIP)
  • Brief interventions
Learn and Adapt CAMS for your Clinical Setting
  • Extensive research supporting CAMS for therapeutic assessment and treatment of suicidal risk
    • Overview to the CAMS Framework and Suicide Status Form
    • Brief review of open trial evidence
    • Brief review of the randomized controlled trials
    • Brief review of the support for CAMS training
First Session of CAMS
  • Engagement in the approach
  • First session SSF
    • Section A – client’s quantitative and qualitative assessment
    • Section B – Key warning and risk factors
    • Section C – CAMS Treatment Planning – including completion of CAMS Stabilization and identification of client defined suicidal drivers
    • Section D – Additional post session documentation
CAMS Interim Sessions
  • Interim SSF Core Assessment (Section A)
  • Further crafting CAMS Stabilization Plan
  • Treating drivers
  • Treatment Plan Update (Section B)
  • Additional post-session documentation (Section C)
CAMS Final Outcome-Disposition Session
  • Outcome disposition SSF Core Assessment (Section A)
  • Outcome and disposition (Section B)
  • Additional post session documentation (Section C)
Adapted Uses of CAMS
  • Inpatient use of CAMs
  • CAMS-4 Teens
  • CAMS-Brief Intervention
Additional Considerations
  • Decrease liability
  • Training considerations
  • Increase provider competence and confidence
  • Ethical considerations
  • Future research
Concluding Case Studies and Final Thoughts
  • Case of a graduate student who is suicidal
  • Case of veteran who is at high risk for suicide after discharge from inpatient care

Everything You're Getting

  • More than 6 hours of video content
  • Up to 6.0 CE credits
  • Certificate of completion
  • Handouts and resources

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David Jobes, PhD, ABPP

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David Jobes, PhD, ABPP, is the developer of the Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality (CAMS) treatment method. He began his career in 1987 in the counseling center of The Catholic University of America, where he developed a suicide risk assessment tool for college students that evolved into an evidence-based treatment, CAMS, recognized by The Joint Commission, Zero Suicide, and the CDC. A 2021 meta-analysis of 30 years of research shows that CAMS is a “well supported” intervention for reducing suicidal ideation per CDC criteria. Dr. Jobes is a professor of psychology and associate director of clinical training at CatholicU. He has published seven books and hundreds of journal articles and book chapters focused on suicide-care and has trained thousands of mental health professionals in the United States and abroad in evidence-based assessment and treatment of suicide risk and the use of CAMS.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. David Jobes maintains a private practice and has employment relationships with The Catholic University of America and Uniformed Services University. He is the President of the Board of Directors for Washington Psychological Center. He receives compensation as a consultant and receives royalties as a published author. Dr. Jobes is a stock owner of CAMS-care, LLC. He receives grants from A Four Pines Fund, The University of Washington, The National Institute of Mental Health, and Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. Dr. Jobes receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. David Jobes is an Ad hoc reviewer and editor for several peer review journals, for a complete list contact PESI, Inc. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and a member of American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP).

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Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Product Code:
POS150178
Duration:
6 hours, 11 minutes
Copyright:
May 22, 2025
Closed Captions:
Available
Format:
Audio and Video

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