Holcomb Behavioral
Health Systems
Presents...
Suicide
Prevention
and Risk
Assessment
Friday, May 12, 2017
8:30am - 4:30pm
Immaculata University
Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Matthew Wintersteen
Suicide Prevention and Risk Assessment
May 12, 2017 | 8:30AM-4:30PM | Immaculata University
Presenter: Matthew Wintersteen, Ph.D.
Sponsored by: Holcomb Behavioral Health Systems
Co-sponsored by: Magellan Behavioral Health of Delaware County and
Community Care Behavioral Health
Agenda
8:30 AM
Welcome and Introductions
8:45 AM
Common Myths Regarding Suicide
9:15 AM
Understanding the National Problem of Suicide
9:30 AM
Psychiatric Comorbidities
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The “Big Five” and Suicide
Psychiatric Symptoms
Parent Suicide as a Risk Factor
10:15 AM
Break
10:30 AM
Suicidal Ideation and Suicidal Behavior
11:00 AM
The Foundations of Suicide Risk Assessment
12:00 PM
Lunch (provided)
12:45 PM
Suicide Risk Assessment: What Else Should I Know?
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The Columbia Suicide Severity Scale
2:00 PM
Other Areas to Assess
2:20 PM
Still Concerned? What to Do Next
2:45 PM
Break
3:00 PM
Breakout Sessions
4:00 PM
Question & Answers and Summary of the Day
4:15 PM
Conference Evaluation and CEU Certificates
4:30 PM
Adjourned
Training Mission/Goals
Suicide is a serious public health problem that causes pain, suffering, and loss to individuals, families, and communities
nationwide. The causes of suicide are complex and determined by multiple combinations of factors, such as mental
illness, substance abuse, painful losses, exposure to violence, and social isolation. Suicide prevention efforts seek to
reduce factors that increase the risk for suicidal thoughts and behaviors and increase the factors that strengthen,
support, and protect individuals from suicide (SAMHSA, 2015).
Suicide claims the lives of over 1300 Pennsylvanians each year; that is an average of 3.5 lives each day. It is estimated
that each suicide directly affects six people. Therefore, over 7800 Pennsylvanians becomes survivors of suicide each year
(OMHSAS, 2016).
The keynote presentation will address current myths regarding suicide and provide updated information regarding
suicide rates in the United States. The presentation will assist participants in learning about the common risk factors
associated with suicide, how to appropriately assess for suicide risk in the clients they serve, and how to incorporate
assessment results into an action plan to prevent suicidal risk moving forward.
Learning Objectives
1.
Participants will examine their own understanding of commonly believed myths regarding suicide.
2.
Participants will gain a better understanding of the problem of suicide on both a national level as well as
locally in the state of Pennsylvania.
3.
Participants will increase their familiarity with the most common risk factors for suicide and how to better
identify them in practice.
4.
Participants will earn how to utilize suicide risk assessment tools and how to incorporate them into everyday
practice.
5.
Participants will enhance their ability to provide appropriate follow-up once risk factors for suicide have
been identified through assessment.
6.
Participants will identify opportunities to develop and implement effective policies regarding suicide risk
assessment to incorporate into their own agencies and practices.
Continuing Education
LSW, LCSW, LPC and MFT: Holcomb Behavioral Health Systems is approved by the Pennsylvania State Board of Social
Work to offer continuing education to licensed social workers, professional counselors, and marriage & family
therapists. Holcomb Behavioral Health Systems maintains responsibility of the program. This program is approved for
6.0 hours.
Psychologists: Holcomb Behavioral Health Systems is approved by the Pennsylvania State Board of Psychology to
offer continuing education to psychologists. Holcomb Behavioral Health Systems maintains responsibility of the
program. This program is approved for 6.0 hours.
PCB (PA Additions Counselors): Holcomb Behavioral Health Systems is approved from the PCB to offer
6.0 hours of continuing education credit.
Keynote Presenter
Dr. Matthew Wintersteen an Assistant Professor and Director of Research in the Division of Child and
Adolescent Psychiatry at Thomas Jefferson University/Jefferson Medical College. He came over to Jefferson
after five years at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). There, Dr. Wintersteen served as
coordinator and co-investigator for a large randomized clinical trial of suicidal youth recruited from the
primary care system funded by the CDC. He was awarded a pilot grant from the American Foundation for
Suicide Prevention (AFSP) and developed a standardized screening protocol for suicidal youth at CHOP.
Included as a byproduct of this project was a pediatric suicide risk assessment and management training that
Dr. Wintersteen has offered primary care providers and school personnel in and around the City of
Philadelphia for the past seven years. In the fall of 2006, he assisted Garrett Lee Smith grantees to develop
strategies to engage primary care providers in suicide risk assessment and management at a SAMHSA
technical assistance meeting.
Currently, Dr. Wintersteen is working on a longitudinal study funded by the National Alliance for Research on
Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD) designed to assess parent, adolescent, and family predictors of suicidal
behavior in high-risk youth, with participants being recruited from a family medicine practice and Philadelphia’s only
pediatric crisis response center. He is Co-Director of a SAMHSA-funded State/Tribal suicide prevention project designed
to build training, screening, and intervention into primary care in Northeastern Pennsylvania. He is also a member of
Pennsylvania’s Youth Suicide Prevention Monitoring Committee, a public/private partnership formed to provide support
and guidance to youth suicide prevention efforts across the Commonwealth. Dr. Wintersteen led an extensive
assessment of mental health and suicide risk among students in the health profession fields at Jefferson and is
collaborating with colleagues on this nationally. He routinely participates in research endeavors focused on suicide
prevention for adolescents at the Pediatric Crisis Response Center in Germantown and Belmont Comprehensive Center
for Treatment. In addition to his grant-funded projects, Dr. Wintersteen was on a national task force sponsored by the
American Association of Suicidology (AAS) to develop a suicide prevention training program for primary care providers
and is now the Master Trainer for that program. He served on national task forces convened by the Suicide Prevention
Resource Center, the National Institute of Mental Health, and AAS designed to develop ideas and methods to support
organizational and systems change to reduce suicide in primary care and facilitate better care for suicidal patients in the
Emergency Department.
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May 12, 2017
Suicide Prevention and Risk Assessment
Registration Form
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