Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality (CAMS) Training
February 11, 2025 @ 8:30 am - 4:30 pm EST
CBHC behavioral health clinicians providing direct care, assessment, and treatment are invited to apply for a limited number of spots for full CAMS certification! Applications are accepted through December 13, 2024. Notifications regarding the status of submitted applications will be delivered via email in mid to late December.
Description:
The Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality (CAMS) is a clinical framework that emphasizes suicide-specific risk assessment and intervention. This approach is intended to be used by mental and behavioral health clinicians across theoretical orientations and settings, in acute and outpatient contexts. Clinicians who complete the CAMS training modalities will acquire knowledge, skills, and confidence for reducing suicidal ideation and associated behavioral risk using evidence-based assessments, stabilization planning, and ongoing therapy strategies. The training is presented by CAMS Care, consultant-trainers and there are four required program components:
- Completion of an introductory online foundational video course is strongly recommended prior to attending the virtual training day, February 11th, 8:30 am-4:30 pm.
- Completion of the electronic CAMS book (approximately 9 hours) is strongly recommended prior to attending the virtual training day, February 11th, 8:30 am-4:30 pm.
- All-day virtual role-play training attendance and participation (February 11th, 8:30 am-4:30 pm via Zoom, full day REQUIRED).
- Attendance and participation in four consultation calls (TBD via Zoom following virtual role-play training) 1-hour virtual meetings.
Learners will receive a lifetime CAMS Trained designation following completion of these requirements in the training series.
Objectives:
After completing this training, participants will be able to:
- Explain core components of the CAMS framework, including its evidence base and ideal use in suicide-focused care.
- Understand how to use “drivers” of suicide to create a conceptualization of an individual client’s suicidal pain and risk.
- Administer the Suicide Status Form, an empirically supported, evidence-based risk assessment with clients.
- Complete a collaborative stabilization plans and suicide-specific, individualized treatment plans with clients.
- Conduct ongoing, suicide-focused care in a dynamic way that protects against malpractice tort litigation.
- Discuss specific cases and skill application with CAMS-care consultants during ongoing consultation.
Schedule:
- Self-paced – Complete foundational video course
- Self-paced – Complete electronic CAMS book
- Attend 1 live, all-day virtual role-play session – February 11, 2025 from 8:30-4:30PM
- Attend 4 live, 1-hour virtual consultation calls – schedule TBD following role-play training