Novel Approaches to the Assessment and Management of Adolescent Suicidal Behavior
1 Hour, 0 Minutes
Previously Recorded
David A. Brent, MD
Webinar Description
1 Hour, 1 CE!
This talk will begin by discussing the limitations of some current approaches to assessing suicidal risk in youth. We will then review some more recent innovations in identifying youth at high suicidal risk, including adaptive screening, the Implicit Association Test, machine learning of health records, and social media posts. Then, we will discuss steps involved in developing an effective safety plan and the development of a safety plan and linkage to services, and the effectiveness of safety planning in reducing suicidal risk. Finally, we will conclude with an overview of some safety planning apps that may have clinical utility.
Qualifications:
Dr. Brent is Academic Chief, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital and holds an endowed chair in suicide studies at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He directs Services for Teens at Risk, a state-funded program for suicide prevention, education of professionals, and treatment of at-risk youth and their families.
Dr. Brent is a member of the National Academy of Medicine. He has been recognized for his research by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, the American Psychiatric Association, and the Brain and Behavior Foundation.
His work has focused on the identification of risk factors for adolescent depression and suicidal behavior, and on the translation of those findings into clinical interventions. He has helped to establish standards of care for the assessment and treatment of depressed and suicidal youth. His current work is focused on the use of brain imaging to gain insight into how suicidal individuals think about death and suicide, the use of adaptive screens, machine learning of electronic health records, and passive cell phone data to identify suicidal risk, the prevention of suicidal behavior in youth who have been recently discharged from psychiatric hospital, and on the use of technology to improve the ability of pediatric primary care practitioners to detect, triage, and manage depressed and suicidal youth.
Agenda:
15 min - Discuss limitations on current approaches to assessing suicidal risk in youth.
15 Min - Review recent innovations to ID high suicidal risk
a. Adaptive screening
b. Implicit Association Test
c. Machine learning of health records and social media posts.
15 min - Discussion on effective safety plan development.
15 min - Overview of some safety planning apps and clinical utility.
Learning Objectives:
- The attendees will be able to describe the rationale for screening for suicide risk in in pediatric EDs and the advantages of using an adaptive screening tool.
- The attendees will be able to describe the rationale, methods, and major findings of studies that apply machine learning to electronic health records in order to delineate suicidal risk.
- The attendees will be able to describe how machine learning when applied to social media and to fMRI neural signatures of suicidal people illustrate the role of self-referential thinking in suicidal risk.
- The attendees will be able to describe how to generate a safety plan, and how a brief inpatient intervention and a safety planning app can protect high risk youth against recurrent suicidal behavior.
This presentation is open to:
- Social Workers
- Professional Counselors
- Therapists
- Psychologists
- Licensed Mental Health Practitioners
- Other professionals interacting with populations engaged in mental health based services
This online class is offered at an intermediate level ,and is beneficial for an intermediate level clinician:
- New practitioners who wish to gain enhanced insight surrounding the topic
- Experienced practitioners who seek to increase and expand fundamental knowledge surrounding the subject matter
- Advanced practitioners seeking to review concepts and reinforce practice skills and/or access additional consultation
- Managers seeking to broaden micro and/or macro perspectives
Course Length: 1 Hour
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There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program.
Dr. Brent receives research support from NIMH, AFSP, the Once Upon a Time Foundation, and the Beckwith Foundation, receives royalties from Guilford Press, from the electronic self-rated version of the C-SSRS from eRT, Inc., and from performing duties as an UptoDate Psychiatry Section Editor, receives consulting fees from Healthwise, receives Honoraria from the Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation for scientific board membership and grant reviews, and is a scientific board member for AFSP.
Intellectual Property (currently no financial interest): Funding from the National Institute of Mental Health supported the development of intellectual property for: 1) BRITE, with colleagues at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Children’s Health of Dallas, UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital, and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 2) the As Safe As Possible intervention, with colleagues from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Children’s Health of Dallas, Florida International University, UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital, and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 3) the Computerized Adaptive Screen for Suicidal Youth (CASSY) measure, with colleagues from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, the University of California, San Francisco, and the University of Chicago, 4) a suicide risk machine learning algorithm, with colleagues at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital, and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and 5) Screening Wizard, with colleagues from UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital, the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.