Suicide Assessment, Treatment, and Management: Live Webinar

Bring your toughest clinical questions. Carrington answers participant questions throughout the webinar, so you leave with clarity on the situations that actually show up in your caseload rather than generic guidance.

Work through realistic risk assessment and safety planning scenarios as a group. Hearing how experienced clinicians reason through ambiguity builds the clinical judgment that written materials alone cannot teach.

Complete a full 6 CE hours in one focused, structured session. Your live CE certificate is issued after the webinar, giving you a meaningful block of your renewal requirement in a single afternoon.

Counselors provide the majority of outpatient mental health services in the United States and frequently work with clients experiencing suicidal ideation. This training helps counselors develop competency in suicide risk assessment, safety planning, and crisis intervention. The webinar also satisfies Kentucky's LPC suicide training requirement and similar mandates in other states.

Social workers encounter suicidal clients across diverse practice settings including hospitals, community agencies, schools, and private practice. This ASWB ACE-approved webinar provides social workers with the knowledge and skills needed to assess suicide risk, develop safety plans, and coordinate care with other providers and support systems.

Family therapists work with individuals and families affected by suicide, whether through a family member's suicidal ideation or the aftermath of suicide loss. This training provides MFTs with strategies for assessing suicide risk within the family context and involving family members in safety planning and treatment.

Substance use disorders significantly increase suicide risk, making suicide assessment a critical skill for addiction counselors. This NAADAC-approved webinar helps addiction professionals understand the relationship between substance use and suicide, assess risk in clients with co-occurring disorders, and integrate suicide prevention into addiction treatment.

Psychologists conducting psychological assessments, providing therapy, or supervising trainees need current knowledge of suicide risk assessment and intervention. This webinar covers evidence-based assessment approaches, treatment modalities, and ethical considerations relevant to psychological practice.

A foundation for understanding suicide through current statistics, demographic patterns, and theoretical frameworks including the Interpersonal Theory of Suicide, the Three-Step Theory, and the Integrated Motivational-Volitional Model. Explore the stigma surrounding suicide and how it impacts help-seeking behavior, treatment engagement, and outcomes.

Identify the key risk factors associated with suicide, including mental health conditions, substance use disorders, previous suicide attempts, access to lethal means, chronic pain or illness, and social isolation. Distinguish chronic risk factors from acute warning signs that indicate imminent danger, and develop skills for conducting thorough risk assessments that maintain therapeutic rapport.

Explore the role of social support and connectedness, effective coping skills, reasons for living, religious and spiritual beliefs, access to mental health care, and restricted access to lethal means in reducing suicide risk. Learn how to assess and enhance protective factors as part of comprehensive treatment planning.

Move beyond simple screening tools to comprehensive assessment techniques, including validated instruments such as the Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS), the Beck Scale for Suicide Ideation, and the Suicide Assessment Five-step Evaluation and Triage (SAFE-T). Learn clinical interview strategies and documentation best practices.

Develop practical skills for creating collaborative safety plans that clients will actually use, including the Safety Planning Intervention (SPI) developed by Stanley and Brown, lethal means counseling, crisis resources including the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, and coordination with emergency services when hospitalization is necessary.

Explore treatment modalities designed for clients with suicidal ideation, including CBT for Suicide Prevention (CBT-SP), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and the Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality (CAMS). Close with the ethical and legal landscape: duty to protect, informed consent, documentation, liability, and clinician self-care.

1. Register. Reserve your spot for the September 4, 2026 webinar. Individual registration is $120 for all 6 CE hours, or attend at no additional cost with an Unlimited Plus membership.

2. Receive your access link. After you register, you will receive a confirmation email with the live webinar link and instructions for joining. A reminder is sent before the event.

3. Attend live. Join on Friday, September 4, 2026 from 12:00 PM to 6:45 PM EST. Attendance for the full session is required to earn your 6 live CE hours. Participate in the Q&A and case discussion throughout the day.

4. Complete the post-test and earn your CE certificate. After the webinar, complete a brief post-test (required for all live webinars) and the course evaluation to receive your 6-hour live CE certificate. Your certificate includes all information required by licensing boards.

Step 1: Warning Signs. Help the client identify the thoughts, feelings, and situations that typically precede suicidal crises. Recognizing these warning signs early allows for intervention before the crisis escalates.

Step 2: Internal Coping Strategies. Identify activities the client can do on their own to distract from suicidal thoughts and reduce emotional distress, such as exercise, music, or relaxation techniques.

Step 3: Social Contacts for Distraction. List people and social settings that can provide healthy distraction without necessarily discussing the crisis, such as visiting a coffee shop or calling a friend to talk about other topics.

Step 4: People to Ask for Help. Identify trusted individuals the client can contact when experiencing suicidal thoughts, including family members, friends, or sponsors who can provide support.

Step 5: Professional Resources. List professional resources including the clinician's contact information, crisis lines (988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline), local emergency services, and nearby emergency departments.

Step 6: Making the Environment Safe. Collaboratively identify ways to reduce access to lethal means, particularly firearms, medications, and other methods the client has considered.