Course Description
Suicide risk assessment is a core competency for psychologists and mental health professionals. It requires clarity, structure, and the ability to respond proportionately to risk.
This training provides a practical framework for conducting comprehensive suicide risk assessments and developing effective, individualised safety plans. The focus is on strengthening clinical reasoning, identifying risk and protective factors, and ensuring your documentation and intervention decisions are defensible.
You will learn how to assess suicide risk across varying levels of presentation, when to initiate immediate assessment, and how to tailor safety planning strategies accordingly.
This course supports best practice, ethical decision-making, and culturally responsive assessment, including considerations for working with children and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander clients.
Learning Objectives
By completing this CPD training, you will be able to:
- Conduct structured suicide risk assessments that identify key risk and protective factors
- Recognise clinical presentations that require immediate suicide risk evaluation
- Stratify suicide risk levels appropriately
- Develop tailored safety plans aligned to level of risk
- Identify the essential components of an effective safety plan
- Adapt risk assessment and safety planning processes in culturally responsive ways
- Meet ethical and professional obligations in documentation and decision-making
Terms of Purchase
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