Suicidal Assessment

When a client is experiencing suicidal thoughts or self-injury, knowing how to ask the right questions, accurately assess risk, and respond appropriately can make a critical difference.

This practical training equips clinicians with the communication skills, assessment frameworks, and collaborative safety-planning strategies needed to respond to suicide risk across the lifespan.

You’ll learn how to:

• Use direct, compassionate language to distinguish active and passive suicidal ideation from non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI)

• Select the appropriate screening and suicide-risk assessment tools for children, adolescents, adults, and special populations

• Evaluate intent, planning, access to means, and other risk factors to support appropriate clinical triage

• Determine when risk can be managed collaboratively and when immediate higher-level intervention is necessary

• Create actionable collaborative safety plans rather than relying on ineffective safety contracts

• Apply practical means-restriction strategies, including age-appropriate involvement of trusted adults for minor clients

• Use harm-reduction and step-down coping strategies to help clients move toward safer forms of emotional and nervous-system regulation

• Adapt safety planning for veterans and first responders, including culturally responsive approaches to firearm access, occupational requirements, and career concerns

Move from uncertainty to a structured, confident response.

Whether you work with youth, adults, veterans, first responders, or clients who engage in NSSI, this course provides practical strategies you can incorporate into your clinical practice immediately.

Enroll today and strengthen your ability to recognize risk, make informed clinical decisions, and build safety plans that are collaborative, practical, and responsive to the individual client.

North Dakota Professionals Coupon Code: NDKIDS

This effort is associated with North Dakota’s Pediatric Mental Health Care Access (PMHCA) Grant, funded by the federal Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), administered through the North Dakota Department of Health and Human Services – Behavioral Health Division.