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The training targets mental and behavioral health professionals and trainees who would benefit from foundational suicide prevention skills. Ideal participants include those in counseling, social work, psychology, nursing, psychiatry, substance use treatment, and related fields, working across diverse settings such as private practice, hospitals, universities, corrections, military, and community care.
This training is offered through a regional partnership between the UNC Charlotte Violence Prevention Center and the South Piedmont Area Health Education Center.
In this half-day workshop format session, Dr. Cramer will provide the Core Competency Model (CCM) Suicide Prevention Training. The CCM addresses 10 foundation suicide prevention skills for the mental health provider:
(1) Manage your attitudes and reactions toward suicide-related topics;
(2) Maintain a collaborative, empathetic stance toward the client;
(3) Assess evidence-based, culturally-informed risk and protective factors;
(4) Elicit details of current plan and intent of suicidal ideation;
(5) Develop a therapeutic and tailored risk formulation;
(6) Enact a collaborative evidence-based treatment plan;
(7) Involve supportive other persons;
(8) Document formulation, plan, and reasoning for clinical decisions;
(9) Know the law concerning suicide, and;
(10) Engage in debriefing and self-care.
Drawing on the social-cognitive model of suicide prevention training, this session features psychoeducational, self-reflection (e.g., attitude self-assessment), interactive (e.g., case study review), and resource provision (e.g., ethics checklist) educational strategies. Each trainee leaves the session with up-to-date skills training alongside numerous self-assessment and clinical tools and resources.
Agenda
12:00 – 12:20: Introductions, the Core Competency Approach & Terminology
12:20 – 12:40: Competency 1: Manage your attitudes and reactions toward suicide-related topics
12:40 – 1:00: Competency 2: Maintain a collaborative, empathetic stance toward the client
1:00 – 1:10: Break
1:10 – 1:30: Competency 3: Assess evidence-based, culturally-informed risk and protective factors
1:30 – 1:50: Competency 4: Elicit details of current plan and intent of suicidal ideation
1:50 – 2:10: Competency 5: Develop a therapeutic and tailored risk formulation
2:10 – 2:20: Break
2:20 – 2:50: Competency 6: Enact a collaborative evidence-based treatment plan
2:50 – 3:00: Competency 7: Involve supportive other persons
3:00 – 3:10: Competency 8: Document formulation, plan, and reasoning for clinical decisions
3:10 – 3:30: Competency 9: Know the law concerning suicide
3:30 – 3:50: Competency 10: Engage in debriefing and self-care
3:50 – 4:00: Q&A
Speaker
Robert J. Cramer, Ph.D. 
Robert J. Cramer, Ph.D. is the Irwin Belk Endowed Professor of Health Research at UNC Charlotte (USA). A co-founder for the UNC Charlotte Violence Prevention Center (VPC), Dr. Cramer also serves as the Associate Director of Training for the VPC. Dr. Cramer holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Alabama (Roll tide!). His expertise includes suicide prevention, hate crimes/discrimination prevention, and health professions training. He is the co-author of The Behavioral Science of Firearms: A Mental Health Perspective on Guns, Suicide, and Violence (Oxford University Press, 2018). Dr. Cramer has served as PI, Co-PI or co-I on more than $18mil in federal, state, international, and foundation funded projects. He is the founder of the Core Competency Model (CCM) of Suicide Prevention Training, a beginner-to-intermediate education program addressing clinician self-management and clinical care skills. Recognized as an international expert researcher and trainer, he has served as a visiting researcher, scholar, or trainer for the University of South Australia (2007), Prague Public Policy Centre (2014), Griffith University Criminology Institute (2015), University of Central Lancashire (2016), University of Strathclyde (2018, 2023, 2024), Griffith University Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention (2023), and University of Jyväskylä (2024).
Date and Time
Friday, November 7, 2025
12:00pm-4:00pm
Webinar Information
This webinar will be broadcast with Zoom. Instructions to join the webinar will be emailed prior to the event. You can test your computer by going to the Zoom Test Page.
Continuing Education Credits
(You MUST attend the entire webinar to receive credit).
Contact Hours / CEUs
This activity fulfills the requirement for 0.4 Continuing Education Units (CEUs), representing 4.0 Contact Hours.
4.0 Contact Hours (category A) CE for NC Psychologists
The South Piedmont AHEC is recognized by the North Carolina Psychology Board as an approved provider of (Category A) Continuing Education for North Carolina Licensed Psychologists.
4.0 NBCC Clock Hours
South Piedmont AHEC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 5096. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. South Piedmont AHEC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
In Partnership with - UNC Charlotte Violence Prevention Center
Click https://violenceprevention.charlotte.edu/ to learn more about UNC Charlotte Violence Prevention Center.
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