Engaging Families to Create Meaningful Safety Plans
Session Recording
Description
Dr. Kevin Crowley will discuss strategies for collaborating with families and supports to create meaningful safety plans.
During this workshop, Dr. Kevin Crowley will discuss strategies for using the Collaborative Assessment & Management of Suicidality Model to work with families and caregivers to create meaningful safety plans. Dr. Crowley will review opportunities and important considerations when engaging families in means reduction and safety planning.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this program, participants should be better able to:
- Describe opportunities and challenges for engaging families in creating safety plans.
- Identify strategies for collaborating with families and supports to reduce access to lethal means.
- Identify effective strategies for implementing meaningful safety plans.
Facilitator
Senior Consultant — Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality • CAMS-Care
Dr. Crowley’s research to date has emphasized brief interventions for reducing shame and suicide risk, understanding suicide “drivers,” and considerations for optimizing the effectiveness of suicide-focused training.
In addition to serving as a CAMS-care Senior Consultant, Dr. Kevin Crowley works as a Staff Psychologist at Capital Institute for Cognitive Therapy, LLC, and as a Lecturer at The Catholic University of America. He has conducted risk assessments, delivered suicide-specific treatments, and provided suicide-focused consultation and training through the VA Health Care System and outpatient private practices since 2010. He has also been involved in several suicide-focused program evaluations and formal research projects through The Catholic University of America’s Suicide Prevention Laboratory (Washington, DC) and the Rocky Mountain MIRECC for Suicide Prevention (Denver, CO).
Dr. Crowley’s research to date has emphasized brief interventions for reducing shame and suicide risk, understanding suicide “drivers,” and considerations for optimizing the effectiveness of suicide-focused training. He has presented this research and offered clinical workshops at the annual conventions of the American Association of Suicidology and the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies.