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Using Safety Planning to Assess Risk and Manage Adults at Risk for Suicide

Speaker(s)

Monica Matthieu, PhD

This workshop is designed to prepare front line workers with competencies for engaging and responding to adults who may be at risk for suicide. This training will focus on appropriate intake questions, assessment issues, and a recommended tool for managing risk, with specific focus on safety planning in the context of suicide prevention. The focus of this presentation is on assessing and managing adults at risk for suicide and skills related to micro practice. Case examples will focus on the veteran population and materials from the Department of Veterans Affairs’ suicide prevention program.

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Integrating Substance Use Disorder and Health Care Services: Models and Tools

Speaker(s)

Heather Gotham, PhD

Research increasingly shows that integrating SUD and health care services improves patient outcomes. This includes both having addiction treatment programs and providers offer more health care services, as well as integrating substance use disorder services into primary, hospital, and specialty health care settings. The goals of this workshop are to describe effective models for integrating substance use disorder and health care; identify effective substance use disorder treatments that can be brought to health care settings; inform participants about two tools that can help programs assess their capability to provide integrated services; and examine implementation strategies to assist in integrating substance use disorder and health care services.

Gotham Integration MO Spring Training 2016 final – Slides in PDF format

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Connect, Accept, Respond, Empower (CARE): How to Support LGBTQ Youth

Speaker(s)

Leah Crask-Ellis, LPC, MSS, CCDP-D

This interactive workshop will provide an overview of suicide among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning (LGBTQ) youth and the different environmental stressors that contribute to their heightened risk for suicide. The first half of the workshop will focus on what research states regarding reducing the risk of suicide and promoting resiliency. After reviewing current research, there will be an emphasis on best practices and practical steps that service providers, educators , and others can take to promote a positive environment for all youth.

Crask-Ellis Trevor CARE Presentation STI 2016 – Slides in PDF format

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Prevalence of Neurodevelopmental Disorders associated with Prenatal Exposure to Alcohol (ND-PAE)

Speaker(s)

Carl C. Bell, MD

Dr. Bell will highlight a mental health silent epidemic occurring in the US. Using original research, he will explicate the prevalence of Neurodevelopmental Disorders associated with Prenatal Alcohol Exposure and discuss the interview techniques to uncover this disorder. He will describe how his research in Chicago revealed of 611 patients (ages 4-78; 95% on Public Assistance for medical care) that were seen, 297/611 (49%) evidenced Neurodevelopmental Disorders dating back to childhood, including 237/611 (39%) who specifically reported symptoms and histories consistent with Neurodevelopmental Disorder Associated with Prenatal Exposure to Alcohol (ND-PAE). Finally, Dr. Bell will suggest the prenatal and postnatal, biotechnical strategy of giving adults Choline 500mg, Folate 400 mcg, and Omega-3 500mg twice a day, and Vitamin A 2,000 IU daily.

Bell 6-3-16 NDA-PAE Missouri – Slides in PDF format

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Risk Factors are Not Predictive Factors due to Protective Factors

Keynote Speaker

Carl C. Bell, MD

Contrary to expectations of many psychiatric practitioners, exposure to a risk factor, e.g., a traumatic stressor, does not automatically put a person on a path to develop a psychiatric disorder, e.g. PTSD. Similarly, having a mental disorder does not automatically put a person on a path to do poorly in life, e.g. languish or get depressed. Scientific documentation will be provided that protective factors have the capacity to prevent risk factors from becoming predictive of “bad” mental health outcomes. Further, protective factors can decrease the risk individuals who are exposed to adverse childhood experiences from having serious psychopathology in later life. A theoretically sound, evidence-based, common sense model is offered as a “directionally correct” way to ensure that at-risk populations obtain protective factors to prevent potential risk factors from generating poor health and mental health outcomes.

Bell 6-3-16 Risk Factors are not Predictive Factors due to Protective Factors – Slides in PDF format