This presentation was part of the 5th Annual Mobile Mental Health Crisis Response Summit.
Brief Description:
Suicide Assessments can be an uncomfortable or nerve-wracking process even for crisis workers who do them regularly. In this session we are going to challenge our discomfort, lean into empathetic listening skills, and let go of the concept of control, in order to get more truthful answers to questions about suicide risk and strengthen rapport with our service recipients.
Three Learning Objectives:
- Identify leading and ambiguous questions that often end up in suicide assessments and keep us from getting good information.
- Investigate our own discomfort around asking questions about suicide and make a plan for practice.
- Conceptualizing what could happen if we put down the checklist and orient ourselves to conversations about suicide.
