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Suicide Assessment and Prevention - Part 2

  • Friday, October 16, 2020
  • 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Zoom
  • 29

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Assessing Suicide: An in Depth Look at Patient Engagement


This is the second part of a two-part education series. If you participated in Part 1 of
this event in January, you will earn the full 6 CEU's newly required by the BBS for license renewals in 2021. This second session will provide 3.5 CEU's if you did not take the January session. This event will take place virtually from 9am-1pm.

Educational Goal:

To provide an in depth look at clinical technique and successful suicide assessment. To increase the confidence and improve understanding of the critical elements to be included in suicide assessment with complex populations, including those with personality disorders, those with chronic suicidal ideation and promote the use of the trauma informed care philosophy.

Learning Objectives:

Demonstrate understanding of the 3 C’s identified in this course, and their relevance to a successful suicide assessment.

Define and describe the terms suicide attempt and the “live/die ratio.”

Identify at least 2 new techniques learned from the training demonstrating how to elicit more information from a suicidal patient to more accurately determine suicide risk level.

Identify at least two new assessment techniques you plan to implement in your clinical practice to improve your suicide assessment technique. 

Course Description:

This training will be an in-depth look at the clinical assessment of suicidal risk; incorporating dynamic case discussions, case vignette examples and clinical consultation with training participants. It will entail building upon the initial basics learned in the first training, putting the specialized clinical assessment techniques discussed into practice. This training will delve into the complicated diagnoses of personality disorders and their complex relationship to suicidality, as well as the gray area between a self injurious behavior and a suicide attempt. By the conclusion of this training, Clinicians will take away from this training, an increased level of clinical confidence going into assessing the suicide risk of a high-risk patient, new stylistic techniques to engage a guarded patient and a new trauma informed lens to assess personality disordered patients through. 

Course Outline:

President’s Welcome - 9:00 - 9:10

Course Overview: 9:10-9:20

Reviewing Current Practices: Starting the Conversation: 9:20-9:45

Setting the Tone : 9:45-10:30

Suicide Assessment and Personality Disorders: 10:30-11:10

BREAK: 11:10-11:20

Clinical Case Discussion:  11:20-12:50

Chapter Meeting Closeout 12:50 - 1:00


About the Speaker: Kimberly Beckstead LCSW, ADCII
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Kimberly Beckstead is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Alcohol and Drug Counselor. For the past 15 years Kimberly has immersed herself into the clinical and administrative world of chronic pervasive mental illness, complex trauma, suicide prevention, substance abuse treatment, and trauma informed care. Having initially started her career working as a clinical case manager for the county of San Diego, over the last 7 years she found her passion working with active duty military and Veterans; where complex childhood trauma, military trauma, mental illness and substance abuse intersect. Kimberly has extensive experience providing clinical crisis intervention, case management, clinical supervision, program management, private training and clinical consultation. Over the years Kimberly has earned the reputation of being an innovative, out of the box thinker. Working with the DoD she created new suicide prevention programming at the installation level, spearheading the Marine Intercept Program dedicated to providing crisis intervention and care coordination for active duty service members hospitalized for suicidal ideation or having had a suicide attempt. Kimberly actively integrates suicide prevention efforts with the community through the dissemination of interdisciplinary trainings San Diego county-wide. Kimberly is one of the founding members of the San Diego Trauma Informed Guide team and presently continues her work in suicide prevention, serving as a Suicide Prevention Coordinator at the San Diego VA Hospital. Kimberly is a dynamic trainer, often complimented for her use of humor and authenticity when tackling sensitive topics, encouraging active discussion and thought provoking material.

Disclaimer: The content, opinions and materials provided in the private fee for service training provided by Kimberly Beckstead are those solely of the trainer Kimberly Beckstead and are not a reflection of, or affiliated with the federal government in any way.



TARGET AUDIENCE:  Licensed and Pre-licensed clinicians and educators. 

This course meets the qualifications for 3.5 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.  SDNC-CAMFT CEP#128622

SDNC-CAMFT is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs. CEP#128622. SDNC-CAMFT maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. 

Following the event, Course Completion Certificates will be emailed to each participant who has successfully completed the post test & poll. Attendance will be taken at the beginning and end of the meeting. 


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San Diego North County Chapter of CAMFT is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #128622) to sponsor continuing education LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and LEPs. San Diego North County Chapter of CAMFT maintains responsibility for the provided program/course and its contents. 

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