AMSR for Inpatient Settings

Learn how to confidently and competently assess and manage suicide risk in this engaging online course as a professional providing care in an inpatient setting.

AMSR for Inpatient Settings

About the course

Start date
Immediate access
Length
8 hours | 5 months access
Who this course is for
Health & Behavioral Health Professionals & Inpatient Facilities Staff
Accreditation
8 CE / CME CreditsSee all accreditation details
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AMSR for Inpatient Settings offers busy and often pressured health facilities an easily adopted and effective framework for health practitioners working with patients at differing levels of suicide risk.

This deeply absorbing and engaging online course guides participants step by step through the AMSR risk formulation to assist health practitioners build both competence and confidence with patients who may be at risk of suicide.

Health practitioners will learn how to identify the warning signs, respond compassionately and effectively, and most importantly, develop a collaborative management plan with patients to assist in reducing the risk of suicide with their patients.

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.

Course participants will experience beautifully crafted video lessons and compelling demonstrations of clinicians working with clients that show examples of how to work with the AMSR risk formulation across a range of patient presentations. Participants will also have access to a digital library that allows them to download useful resources.

There are four parts of the AMSR for Inpatient Settings course and each takes around two hours, completed at a time that suits individual practitioners. It’s been designed to be a highly practical and enjoyable online training journey that helps build practitioner competence and confidence in dealing with the often challenging experience of assisting patients at risk of suicide.

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What You'll Learn

Course Goals

  • Develop core skills required to assess and manage suicide risk
  • Learn about the contributing factors and warning signs of suicide risk
  • Efficiently learn how to gather information from your patients to formulate a risk assessment
  • Learn how to ask directly about suicide
  • Acquire knowledge of available safety and evidence-based treatment options
  • Learn how to develop an effective plan collaboratively with a patient to minimize the risk of suicide
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Continuing Education & Professional Development (CE/CME/CPD)

AMSR for Inpatient 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 for8 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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