From Screening to Safety Planning: Recognizing Depression and Providing Suicide Care for Older Adults
August 26 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- To understand the rationale for targeted depression screening in older adults and learning about evidence based screening tools
- To understand the prevalence of sucide risk in older adults and increasing provider comfort with suicide risk assessment
- To understand rationale for engaging in safety planning and lethal means counseling with those patients who have been identified as being at risk for suicide
- To increase provider comfort with the intervention of safety planning as a standard of care for patients who have been identified as being at risk for suicide.
Speaker Dr. Manvi Smith
Dr. Manvi Smith is a suicide prevention expert partnering with healthcare clinics and organizations to strengthen safety, reduce risk, and improve patient outcomes. She specializes in developing evidence-based workflows, staff trainings, and sustainable practices that integrate suicide care into everyday clinical practice. She is a licensed Psychologist in the States of Oregon and Washington and received her Psy.D in Clinical Psychology (APA Accredited) from the University of Indianapolis, Indiana in 2009.