This training is for behavioral health professionals working with military and non-military youth struggling with suicidal thoughts and behaviors. Suicide prevention measures are important when caring for children and teens. We hope this course will help you in your clinical work and strengthen your ability to increase the safety of your clients.
This training was created with Dr. Torrey A. Creed using the Stanley-Brown Safety Planning Intervention (SPI) tool, an evidence-based tool. Thank you to Dr. Creed for facilitating this training and to Dr. Greg Brown for allowing us to share this resource. Forms, additional training, and resources are available here on the Stanley-Brown SPI website.
Learning Objectives:
After completing this training, learners will be able to:
- Identify when to involve caregivers when using the SPI with children and adolescents
- Describe the 6 steps of the Stanley-Brown Safety Planning Intervention
- Create a Safety Plan in collaboration with a child or adolescent client
Target Audience: Mental health professionals serving families, children, and/or parents
Content Level: Intermediate
Duration: This is an asynchronous interactive online training that will take participants approximately 90 minutes to complete, based on estimates from pilot testing. Participants will also need to complete a short quiz and evaluation survey that will take approximately 5-10 minutes.
Earn 1.5 CEs, accredited by APA & ASWB. Participants who complete this training in its entirety will be eligible to receive 1.5 continuing education (CE) credits. In order to receive CEs, participants will need to pass a final quiz with at least an 80% score.
Cost: No cost; training and CEs are free to all learners.
Thank you to USAA for providing funding to support this training and promoting high quality care for veterans and military family members.
This course is available online through Relias Learning Management System. To access the course, you will be required to create a free Relias account. This enables you to save your progress and receive 1.5 CEs upon completion of all training components. Upon successful completion of the course, final quiz, and feedback evaluation survey, CE certificates will be generated automatically through Relias. See additional details on System Requirements for using Relias here.
About Our Presenter: Dr. Torrey Creed
Dr Torrey Creed is a licensed clinical psychologist and Assistant Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine. She founded the Penn Collaborative for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Implementation Science and is Director of the Penn Beck Community Initiative.
Dr Creed is also the Director of Clinical Implementation for Lyssn, partnering with mental health providers to use artificial intelligence to improve their quality of care. In addition, she is a health policy advisor to Partners in Health, supporting their mental health efforts in Low- and Middle-Income countries. She serves on the scientific advisory board of several mental healthcare organizations.
Dr Creed is an expert in child and adolescent mental health, and she specializes in training mental health providers to deliver CBT and other mental health practices in community practice settings. She has published more than 80 scientific articles, and her co-authored book Cognitive Therapy for Adolescents in School Settings has been translated into 4 languages.
Dr Creed works with mental health care clinicians, organizations, and healthcare systems in under-resourced communities and low- and middle-income countries to implement and improve access to evidence-based practices, particularly CBT.
The National Institute of Mental Health funds Dr Creed’s research. She mentors students and postdoctoral fellows and provides workshops for organizations around the world.
Commercial Support/Conflicts of Interest:
Cohen Veterans Network received a grant from USAA in order to fund the development and distribution of this training. CVN has no other commercial support or conflicts of interest to disclose.
Questions, comments, concerns, grievances, and requests for accommodation:
Please email the CVN Training Team at [email protected].