AMSR for Outpatient Settings

Learn how to confidently and competently assess and manage levels of client suicide risk in this highly practical and absorbing online course.

About the course

Start date

Immediate access

Length

8 hours | On-Demand (5 months access)

Who this course is for

Health & Behavioral Health Professionals & Outpatient Facilities Staff

Accreditation

8 CE/CME creditsSee all accreditation details

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Developed by AMSR Lead Trainers and experts with lived experience in the field of suicide, AMSR (Assessing and Managing Suicide Risk) empowers mental health practitioners with practical tools and skills for working with clients at risk of suicide.

Your learning journey takes you step by step through how to recognize suicide warning signs and respond compassionately and appropriately to those signs, while providing you with critical skills and interventions to develop an effective and collaborative suicide prevention management plan with your clients.

AMSR offers health and mental health practitioners a structured framework utilizing research-informed interventions and strategies that are easy to learn and apply. Over 100,000 clinicians and 2,000 health care systems in the United States alone have taken an AMSR course.

You’ll experience beautifully crafted and deeply engaging video lessons and compelling demonstrations of clinicians working with clients that show you how to work with the AMSR risk formulation across a range of client populations. You will also have access to a digital library that allows you to download useful resources.

This deeply absorbing and engaging online course is a complete, thorough, and enjoyable learning experience that has been designed with care to help build your confidence and competence in working with clients at all levels of suicide risk in clinical practice in outpatient settings.

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Course Goals

Develop core skills required to assess and manage suicide risk
Learn the risk factors and signs involved in suicide risk
Efficiently learn how to gather information from your client or patient to formulate a risk assessment

Learn how to ask directly about suicide
Learn about the common dilemmas associated with suicide risk
Acquire knowledge of available safety and evidence based treatment options
Learn how to develop a powerful and effective plan collaboratively with your clients to minimize the risk of suicide

Course modules

Part 1: Approaching your work and understanding suicide

NINE MODULES

Manage your own emotional reactions to suicide and reduce practitioner fear
Develop a shared perspective and build rapport with your clients
Define basic terms related to suicide risk

Describe the phenomenology of suicide
Demonstrate an understanding of warning signs, precipitating factors, risk and protective factors

Part 2: Gathering Information

SEVEN MODULES

Integrate a risk assessment for suicide risk early in a clinical interview and continue to collect assessment information on an ongoing basis
Elicit risk and protective factors

Elicit suicidal ideation, intent, plans, and related behavior
Look for other signs of suicide risk including asking others in your client's day to day life
Obtain records and information from providers and support persons as appropriate

Part 3: Formulating risk

TEN MODULES

Using a risk formulation to make a collaborative decision regarding recovery-oriented treatment planning
Identifying risk status and risk state in your clients

Identifying available resources for your client’s treatment plan
Identifying potential triggers for your clients such as relapse or conflict in close relationships

Part 4: Planning and responding

FIFTEEN MODULES

Collaboratively develop an emergency plan that assures safety and conveys the message that the patient’s safety is not negotiable
Develop a written treatment and services plan that addresses the client’s immediate, acute, and continuing suicidal ideation and risk for suicidal behavior

Coordinate and work collaboratively with other treatment and service providers in an interdisciplinary team approach
Develop policies and procedures for following clients closely, including taking reasonable steps to be proactive

What People Say About Our Courses

Fiona DesiraPsychologist - Dubai - United Arab Emirates
The course is great. This is my second Psychwire course, and I intend to access more. The course is very informative and easy to access in your own time and at your own pace. It is very relevant to my clinical practice.

Agnes ThompsonPhysician - Calgary, Alberta, Canada
I love the format and I learn effectively. I’m very happy with Psychwire educational opportunities.

Janice RicePsychologist - Sammamish, WA, USA
I would recommend Psychwire over other online courses. The course is engaging, concise, fun, and has very usable material!

Angela McCaffertyPsychotherapist - Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK
I'd recommend Psychwire courses because the content and variation of techniques used are sure to suit most if not all learners.

Maria Natália MendesPsychologist - Matosinhos, Portugal
They have great online training, lots of material, and fun and humorous learning. I've had previous positive Psychwire training experiences too.

Heather Barnett VeaguePsychologist - Concord, MA, USA
I always recommend Psychwire for its engaging platform and content. This is my third Psychwire course in the past year. I find the training demonstrations very helpful and instructive. It is useful, easy to follow, and extremely relevant to my practice.

Continuing Education & Professional Development (CE/CME/CPD)

AMSR for Outpatient Settings is designed for mental health and health professionals worldwide. On completion you'll receive an official certificate of completion, which can be submitted to registration bodies for CPD.

This course is accredited for 8 CE/CME credit hours for US licensed professionals:

Psychologists - 8 CE hours, APA - co-sponsored with Amedco, an APA-approved sponsor
Social workers - 8 general CE credits, ASWB ACE
Physicians - 8 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™, ACCME
Nurses - 8 contact hours, ANCC
Counselors, MFTs & addiction professionals - 8 hours, accepted by most US state boards via APA and ASWB ACE credit - see the state-by-state list
Approved CE activity with the New York State boards for Psychology, Social Work, Mental Health Counseling, and Marriage & Family Therapy.

View the full learner notification for this course (PDF) — includes complete accreditation statements, state board acceptance lists, learning objectives and faculty disclosures.

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AMSR for Outpatient Settings

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Part 1Approaching your work and understanding suicide

Part 2Gathering Information

Part 3Formulating risk

Part 4Planning and responding

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