safeTALK

Target audience and instructional level of this course: Foundational

There is no known conflict of interest or commercial support related to this CE program.

Course Description

This course is not an approved for NBCC credit hours

safeTALK teaches participants to recognize and engage persons who might be having thoughts of suicide and to connect them with community resources trained in suicide intervention. safeTALK stresses safety while challenging taboos that inhibit open talk about suicide. The safeTALK learning process is highly structured, providing graduated exposure to practice actions. The program is designed to help participants monitor the effect of false societal beliefs that can cause otherwise caring and helpful people to miss, dismiss, or avoid suicide alerts and to practice the TALK step actions to move past these three barriers.

Learning Objectives

After completing this training the professional will be able to:

• Challenge attitudes that inhibit open talk about suicide.
• Recognize a person who might be having thoughts of suicide.
• Engage them in direct and open talk about suicide
• Listen to the person's feelings about suicide and show that they are taken seriously.
• Move quickly to connect them with someone trained in suicide intervention.
• Apply knowledge from this course to practice and/or other professional contexts.

Author(s)/Reference(s)

This exam should only be taken if you have personally attended and completed a LivingWorks ASIST workshop. If you have not attended a workshop, please visit https://www.livingworks.net/ for dates and locations.