What Mental Health Providers Need to Know about Suicide Prevention (#ElevateTheConvo Twitter Chat)

When: Thursday, October 13, 2022

8:00PM ET/7:00PM CT

6:00PM MT/5:00PM PT

OR

Friday, October 14, 2022

10:00AM Sydney

Where:?Twitter?#ElevateTheConvo

What:?1-hour conversation. Just follow the?#ElevateTheConvo?hashtag on Twitter and join in as our panelists -- all national or international researchers or thought leaders.

Feel free to join in the conversation. If you are new to participating in a Twitter Chat here is a brief??"how to" article. At the time of the chat just put the hashtag?#ElevateTheConvo?in the Twitter search field, then hit the "latest" tab and you will see the most recent posts. When you refresh the search tab new posts will emerge.

Who: All those interested in learning or sharing about what #mentalhealth providers need to know about #suicideprevention.

If mental health providers are given any formal training about suicide prevention it is often a fear-based approach that focuses on imminent risk assessment and liability risk mitigation -- not on how to actually support someone who is experiencing suicidal intensity.

In this?#ElevateTheConvo?Twitter Chat, some of the world's leading experts will share from perspectives of clinical work, research and lived experience some of the missing education, mindset and skills for mental health providers. Here are the questions we will be discussing:

Questions:

1. What is the mindset mental health professionals should strive for when helping people experiencing suicide intensity or suicide loss? What gets in the way of therapists achieving this mindset?
2. What has traditional training for mental health professionals looked like? In what ways was this insufficient? In what ways might some of our traditional teachings around suicide prevention actually caused harm?
3. How have people with lived experience with suicide advocated for new approaches for mental health and suicide prevention? What do people with lived experience wish the therapists knew?
4. With the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline and "Zero Suicide" we have a transformational opportunity in our care for people experiencing suicide intensity and suicide loss -- what does the future of our mental health services look like?