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TeleBehavioral Health 2025: Suicide Risk Assessment and Management in the Age of Telehealth

June 20, 2025


TeleBehavioral Health 2025 Training Series is a free twelve-part webinar series open to anyone providing services to individuals who live with mental health and substance use issues. In this session, Dr. Kate Comtois, PhD reviews how clinicians using telebehavioral health can assess suicide risk and offers further techniques on telebehavioral health risk assessment and management.

Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of this presentation, attendees should be able to:

1. Appreciate methods to assess suicide risk over telehealth.
2. Describe how to prepare to care for those who are high-risk over telehealth.
3. Describe how to implement safety plans for high-risk patients over telehealth.