Suicide Prevention Across Treatment
AMSR for Inpatient SettingsInpatient and outpatient settings, it's important that we all understand the same language. We're using the same language which we're documenting in the same or similar ways. So AMSR has a a direct care model. It's a three-hour training for direct care staff so that they're aware of the fear, the emotions that they may have around talking to somebody on the phone who seems really agitated or really sad or who's angry, aggressive. When you get into continuity of care, it's just not about the the licensed professionals.
It's peer support specialists. It's the folks who are answering the phones. It's the case managers. There has to be this continuity of understanding to be able to get to a continuity of care. Risk formulation is really what the licensed professionals are doing. That's their role, their competency to have to do risk formulation and safety planning, but everything else that is really foundational to being able to, to get to a risk formulation, understanding our, our own emotions and thoughts and beliefs and perspectives around suicidal individual along with understanding what it's like for the individual who's suicidal, And that, that takes away the, the fear, the apprehension keeps us from asking directly.
Are you thinking about suicide? I think that's absolutely essential for everybody in the caring caregiving community to have training on.