
Safety and Suicidality
The primary care setting is an ideal setting for suicide prevention. How so?
- Primary care teams have frequent, long-standing relationships with patients
- Primary care teams may be the patient’s only chance to access needed care
The goal of this module is to provide providers, behavioral health clinicians and community health workers in the primary care setting ways to assess, screen, and intervene for patients who present to primary care with risk factors for suicide.
CEs/CMEs are available for this training
Learning Objectives
After completing this training, you will be able to:
- Describe how the primary care setting is ideal for suicide prevention
- Provide examples of both risk factors and protective factors
- Identify warning signs a suicidal patient may exibit
- Explain how suicidality presents differently in youth compared to adults
- Describe the three basic steps involved in intervening
- Recall the five components involved in the SAFE-T assessment
- Apply the three-step intervention to a case
Course Instructors
Michelle P. Durham
MD, MPHYaminette Diaz-Linhart
MSW, MPHBrittany Gouse
MD, MPH
Self-Enrollment
FREE
1 year of access