Screening for Depression and Suicide: What Rural Health and Behavioral Health Practioners Need to Know

by Dr. Christa Smith Psy.D
Thursday, October 2, 2008

The webcast will begin with a discussion of the rational behind screening for depression and suicide.  This will be followed by key background information on depression and suicide.  The presenter will talk about who should be screened, how to conduct screening (including some screening tool options), and treatment options for those who screen positive.  There will be a list of resources at the end of the talk and (hopefully) time for questions.

Objectives:
1) Participants will know who to screen for depression and suicide.
2) Participants will know how to screen for depression and suicide.
3) Participants will increase their knowledge about depression and suicide as well as treatment options for patients who screen positive.

Powerpoint presentation.

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Dr. Smith is a health psychologist and post-doctoral fellow at the WICHE Mental Health Program.  At WICHE she has been focusing on rural physician education and rural suicide prevention.  She has spent the past five years practicing clinical health psychology in both inpatient and outpatient settings, with an emphasis on primary care.  She has served as an educator and consultant to physicians and multidisciplinary medical staff and has provided psychotherapy for people with a wide range of acute and chronic medical issues.  Her special interests include the study of well-being and happiness, mindfulness meditation, and stress management.  She attended the University of Denver Graduate School of Professional Psychology and completed her internship at the University of Colorado at Denver Health Sciences Center, receiving her doctorate in August of 2007.   

In her spare time she loves to hike and backpack, especially in the Utah desert.  Her other love is food, cooking, eating, reading about food, talking about food, etc., which happens to go well with loving exercise.

This web cast is produced to meet a range of continuing education needs for professional and allied mental health staff currently working in rural and frontier areas.

Participation will qualify for the provision of CME and CEU hours and will be archived on the WICHE web site enabling those unable to view the live broadcast to view the training session at any time afterward.

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