Suicide Prevention Webinars

Crisis Response Planning for Suicidal Patients: An Introduction

In this Webinar: A widely-used strategy for managing acute suicide risk is the contract for safety, also known as the no-suicide contract. Despite its widespread use across mental health and medical settings, accumulating consensus is that this approach may be ineffective. Alternative strategies such as crisis response planning or the related safety planning… Read more »

Live Through This: Using True Stories to Help Stop Suicide

Watch Now: In this Webinar: Join Dese’Rae L. Stage, photographer, writer, suicide awareness activist, and the creator behind the groundbreaking project Live Through This in a free one-hour Webinar to discuss the many faces of suicide, in order to decrease stigma and promote healing. Desa’Rae’s work takes true stories of suicide attempt survivors out of the shadows in… Read more »

What You Can Do to Save a Life from Suicide

Watch Now: In this Webinar: There’s nothing more concerning than the worry that someone you care about may be suicidal. And yet, suicide is a much more common crisis than many of us imagine. Worldwide, a person dies by suicide every 40 seconds. In the United States, the latest data shows the suicide rate to… Read more »

Effectively Saving Lives: A FREE Webinar with the Director of the National Suicide Prevention LifeLine

Watch Now: The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-TALK), with its network of more than 160 crisis centers across the country and its volume of more than a million calls per year, is successfully saving lives. How does it work? The Lifeline’s director, Dr. John Draper, challenges traditional ideas about what the “best care” is for… Read more »

Is Suicide Contagious? A Webinar with Dr. Madelyn Gould

In this Webinar: Suicide is a rising public health concern. In this informative Webinar with Dr. Madelyn Gould, an authority on suicide clusters and contagion, you will learn what factors are contributing to the spread of suicide. What role do the media and programs such as 13 Reasons Why play in this alarming rise and… Read more »

Preventing Suicide: Treatments that Work: A Conversation with Dr. David Jobes

In this Webinar: Dr. David Jobes is a leading researcher on the forefront of creating a standard of care in treating suicidal patients. Dr. Jobes’ CAMS (Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality) approach is one of few empirically validated methods for treating suicidal individuals. Developed over 25 years, CAMS is a unique, collaborative… Read more »

What We Need to Know to Prevent Suicide

Watch Now: See slides from “What We Need to Know to Prevent Suicide” here If you’re interested in watching part two of this Webinar featuring Kevin Hines, please contact [email protected] See a full list of upcoming PsychAliveWebinars here If you are a mental health professional or interested in a longer, more in-depth presentation on suicide prevention, watch Dr. Lisa… Read more »

Suicide: What Therapists Need to Know

In this Webinar: The most common psychiatric emergency we face as clinicians is suicide. Seventy-one percent of psychotherapists report at least one client attempting, while 28 percent report having at least one client die by suicide. Suicide rates keep rising for working age Americans and suicide is now the second leading cause of… Read more »

Learn the CPR of Suicide Prevention

Watch the Webinar: See slides from “Learn the CPR of Suicide Prevention” here See a full list of upcoming Webinars with Dr. Lisa Firestone, here * All Webinars are provided by The Glendon Association, a nonprofit organization dedicated to saving lives and enhancing mental health. To support this Webinar series, you can make a donation to… Read more »