Rethinking Suicide

Over the past two decades, the suicide rate in the United States has steadily increased despite expanded efforts to reverse this trend via expanded awareness campaigns, wide implementation of suicide prevention programs and initiatives, and increased mental health advocacy and anti-stigma campaigns. To the befuddlement, confusion, and frustration of researchers, clinicians, family members, and many others, these efforts have not reversed the trend of rising suicides in the U.S. Why do suicide rates continue to rise despite our best efforts? One possibility is that many of our fundamental assumptions about suicide may be flawed.

In this 2-hour continuing education webinar, Dr. Craig Bryan will critically evaluate several core assumptions about suicide prevention and present alternative perspectives, along with implications for suicide risk screening, treatment, and community-based programming.

This introductory level continuing education webinar is designed to help mental health professionals:

1. Evaluate the relationship of mental illness with suicidal behavior.
2. Distinguish between multiple possible pathways to suicide.
3. Identify several key limitations of prevailing suicide risk screening methods.
4. Describe the prevention by design framework.
5. Select empirically-supported strategies to construct a multicomponent suicide prevention plan.

Statement of program material’s accuracy, utility, and risks: This program presents clinical and scientific information about suicide that is consistent with the ethics code of the American Psychological Association. This program discusses strategies for applying the concepts taught in a clinically responsible manner, although the presenter may not know how to apply all principles discussed to every situation or person. A body of research surveyed in the program suggests that the methods are effective and safe. As always, however, misapplication of the concepts with various populations could lead to harmful outcomes.

Please note: This training discusses suicide and suicidal ideation, and some people might find it disturbing. If you or someone you know is suicidal, please contact your physician or therapist, go to your local Emergency Room, or call the suicide prevention hotline in your country. For the United States, you can call or text 988. The 988 Lifeline provides 24/7, free, and confidential support for people in distress.

Declaration of any conflict of interest: Dr. Bryan reports grant funding from the Department of Defense, National Institute of Mental Health, The Boeing Company, and the Navy SEAL Foundation; consulting fees from Oui Therapeutics LLC; royalties from book sales from Guilford Publishers, Taylor & Routledge, Springer Publishing, and Oxford University Press; and equity ownership in Anduril LLC, a company that conducts training workshops and provides consultation specific to suicide prevention.

References:

1. Bryan, C.J., Butner, J.E., May, A.M., Rugo, K.F., Harris, J.A., Oakey, D.N., Rozek, D.C., & Bryan, A.O. (2020). Nonlinear change processes and the emergence of suicidal behavior: a conceptual model based on the fluid vulnerability theory. New Ideas in Psychology, 57, 100758.
2. Bryan, C.J., & Rudd, M.D. (2018). Nonlinear change processes during psychotherapy characterize patients who have made multiple suicide attempts. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 48, 386-400.
3. Kleiman, E. M., Turner, B. J., Fedor, S., Beale, E. E., Huffman, J. C., & Nock, M. K. (2017). Examination of real-time fluctuations in suicidal ideation and its risk factors: Results from two ecological momentary assessment studies. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 126, 726-738.

Continuing Education (CE) Information

2 CE contact hours will be provided by GoodTherapy for attending this web conference in its entirety. 

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