Zero Suicide Healthcare Training
This directory has been developed in collaboration with Zero Suicide Institute of Australasia to support the training of staff within healthcare systems providing care to those who may be experiencing suicidal behaviours.
Please contact [email protected] to add training programs that may be appropriate to this directory.
Learn more about the Zero Suicide Healthcare Framework and the elements of Zero Suicide Healthcare.
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• Suicide prevention and awareness
• Crisis response procedures and de-escalation techniques
• Collaborative safety planning for suicide
• Family, caregiver, and community supports
• Promotes a role for ALL in suicide prevention.
• Concise 1.5hr delivery time for busy professionals with a role in health and social care or as a first responder.
• Develops understanding and compassion.
• Introduces concept that suicide is not inevitable – and highlights importance of ambivalence, compassion, hope and interruption
• Develops common language between communities, services and those in distress.
• Develops a compassionate approach for demanding and time-pressured environments.
• Equips delegates to use the resources provided to signpost to appropriate support.
• Equips the delegate with the knowledge of how make their own Safety Plan.
ZSH element
- Lead
- Train
- Identify
- Engage
- Treat
- Transition
- Improve
Audience
- Allied Health Clinician
- Crisis Services
- Nursing
- Physician
- Psychiatry
Focus
- Collaborative safety planning for suicide
- Crisis response procedures and de-escalation techniques
- Family, caregiver, and community supports
- Reducing access to lethal means outside the care environment
- Suicide prevention and awareness
Course type
- Online/e-Learning
- Blended learning
- Face-to-face
Cost
- Fee for service
- No cost
Location
- National
• For professionals with an assessment role. Underpinned by evidence-based principles, academic literature and lived experience.
• Facilitates a compassionate, collaborative detailed person-centered assessment, triage, and immediate response for busy professionals
• Promotes the assessment of somebody at risk of suicide as an opportunity for a therapeutic intervention
• Understand how attitudes in healthcare impact on care of patients with suicidal thoughts
• Deepen understanding of assessing suicidal thoughts
• Deepen understanding of the limitations of research based demographic risk factors
• Deepen understanding of the value of diligently Identifying risk factors in order to intervene to reduce/mitigate risk
• Equips usage of SAFETool™ via case-based learning
• Delegates develop skills and confidence instilling hope and co-producing Safety Plans
SAFETool™ Overview
• SAFETool- is not a risk prediction tool
• SAFETool does not tell clinicians what to do but offers a reminder of available options – forming an intelligent recording template/aide memoire which supports clinician decision making
• SAFETool™ assessments can help facilitate effective referral, providing a consistent communication format between different care providers and across different teams and services
• A desktop reminder of the training, which embeds training into clinical practice
• SAFETool also includes a Safety Plan template: strategies to deal with distress, suicidal thoughts, ways to make a situation safer, explicit removal or mitigation of means, emotional and social support, informal and NGO telephone/online support, healthcare and crisis support
• Situations and suicide risk fluctuate; SAFETool allows for this
• SAFETool is peer reviewed by international experts, people with lived experience, practitioners and NGO experts
• SAFETool offers potential to undertake audit post training, embedding-in quality improvement plans
ZSH element
- Lead
- Train
- Identify
- Engage
- Treat
- Transition
- Improve
Audience
- Allied Health Clinician
- Case Management
- Crisis Services
- Nursing
- Physician
- Psychiatry
- Support and Outreach
Focus
- Aftercare and follow-up
- Collaborative safety planning for suicide
- Communicating with patients about suicide
- Crisis response procedures and de-escalation techniques
- Determining appropriate levels of care for patients at risk of suicide
- Family, caregiver, and community supports
- Identifying warning signs for suicide
- Managing suicidal patients
- Procedures for communicating about potentially suicidal patients
- Reducing access to lethal means outside the care environment
- Suicide prevention and awareness
- Suicide screening practices
Course type
- Online/e-Learning
- Blended learning
- Face-to-face
Cost
- Fee for service
- No cost
Location
- National
- Develops a collaborative and transparent approach to mitigating suicide risk
- Promotes a collaborative and compassionate person-centred assessment of someone at risk of suicide – rather than a ‘tick box’ exercise
- At the end of the module participants will be able to create a comprehensive, person-centred bio-psychosocial suicide mitigation plan
- Practical ways to instill authentic hope in a busy clinical environment and how to increase your patient’s resilience to suicidal thoughts
- Understand the value and importance of social support mapping
- Collaboratively engage in a comprehensive social support mapping exercise and be able to coproduce a Social Support Map
- Facilitates a collaborative and transparent approach
ZSH element
- Lead
- Train
- Identify
- Engage
- Treat
- Transition
- Improve
Audience
- Allied Health Clinician
- Case Management
- Crisis Services
- Nursing
- Physician
- Psychiatry
- Support and Outreach
Focus
- Aftercare and follow-up
- Collaborative safety planning for suicide
- Crisis response procedures and de-escalation techniques
- Determining appropriate levels of care for patients at risk of suicide
- Family, caregiver, and community supports
- Identifying risk factors for suicide
- Identifying warning signs for suicide
- Managing suicidal patients
- Procedures for communicating about potentially suicidal patients
- Reducing access to lethal means outside the care environment
- Suicide prevention and awareness
- Suicide-specific treatment approaches
Course type
- Online/e-Learning
- Blended learning
- Face-to-face
Cost
- Fee for service
- No cost
Location
- National
• Explore the myths and stigma associated with self-harm and share fresh thinking
• Understand the range of coping mechanisms when facing challenging life events.
• Understand the prevalence of self-harm.
• Be aware of research on self-harm including the link to suicide.
• Understand reasons why people self-harm.
• Learn about the biological and psychological effects of self-harm on an individual.
• Compassionate ways to support someone who uses self-harm as a coping mechanism.
• Supporting people to find safer ways to deal with distress to support recovery from self-harm.
• Be aware of resources available to support someone who self-harms.
ZSH element
- Lead
- Train
- Identify
- Engage
- Treat
- Transition
- Improve
Audience
- Allied Health Clinician
- Business, Administrative, and Clerical etc.
- Case Management
- Crisis Services
- Facility Operations
- Management
- Nursing
- Peer Support Worker
- Physician
- Psychiatry
- Support and Outreach
Focus
- Collaborative safety planning for suicide
- Crisis response procedures and de-escalation techniques
- Family, caregiver, and community supports
- Reducing access to lethal means outside the care environment
- Suicide prevention and awareness
- Suicide-specific treatment approaches
Course type
- Online/e-Learning
- Blended learning
- Face-to-face
Cost
- Fee for service
- No cost
Location
- National
• Know and understand more about self-harm including signs and causes.
• How to talk to someone about self-harm.
• Techniques for developing and maintaining personal wellbeing & coping strategies to promote resilience.
• Overview of useful techniques to help people who self-harm including problem-solving techniques, The Bank of HopeTM, ABC formulation and more.
• Practice how to talk to someone in distress who may self-harm.
• Understand the importance of social support and the role of social support mapping in preparation for co-producing Safety Plans.
• Practice and know-how to co-produce an immediate and long-term Safety Plan.
ZSH element
- Lead
- Train
- Identify
- Engage
- Treat
- Transition
- Improve
Audience
- Allied Health Clinician
- Business, Administrative, and Clerical etc.
- Case Management
- Crisis Services
- Facility Operations
- Management
- Nursing
- Peer Support Worker
- Physician
- Psychiatry
- Support and Outreach
Focus
- Aftercare and follow-up
- Collaborative safety planning for suicide
- Communicating with patients about suicide
- Creating a safe physical environment for patients at risk of suicide
- Crisis response procedures and de-escalation techniques
- Determining appropriate levels of care for patients at risk of suicide
- Family, caregiver, and community supports
- Identifying warning signs for suicide
- Managing suicidal patients
- Procedures for communicating about potentially suicidal patients
- Reducing access to lethal means outside the care environment
- Suicide prevention and awareness
- Suicide risk formulation practices
- Suicide-specific treatment approaches
- Understanding and navigating ethical and legal considerations
Course type
- Online/e-Learning
- Blended learning
- Face-to-face
Cost
- Fee for service
- No cost
Location
- National