This training is intended for Substance Use Treatment Providers only. This training is targeted towards Advanced, Intermediate, and Beginner practitioners. Workshop Description: “Interventions to prevent overdose deaths in suicidal people will differ from interventions targeted at accidental overdoses. Yet most strategies for reducing opioid-overdose deaths do not include screening for suicide risk, nor do they address the need to tailor interventions for suicidal persons…These two epidemics are intermingled, and solutions to address the opioid crisis require that we tailor interventions to preventing opioid overdose deaths due to suicidal intent.” – Oquendo & Volkow (2018) This full-day training is designed to increase knowledge and improve the skills and confidence of substance use treatment clinicians and others who find themselves identifying high-risk youth and adults, and planning for their care. Participants will learn about the scope of the problem of suicidal thoughts, behaviors, and deaths among people with substance use disorders, review current information on suicide risk factors, and examine personal reactions to dealing with suicidal behaviors. Ways in which opioid use and suicidal thoughts and behaviors are risk factors for each other and points during the addiction and recovery processes where risk of suicide may increase will be discussed. Best practices in risk assessment will be presented, and attendees will learn techniques for eliciting suicidal ideation. The training is based on current best practices and reflects the training objectives in the 2012 National Strategy for Suicide Prevention.
Objectives: Participants will be able to:
Presented by: Riverside Trauma Center Staff: Riverside Trauma Center’s highly-trained, licensed mental health professionals have extensive clinical experience with trauma, suicide survivors and suicide prevention.
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