TeleBehavioral Health 2025: Suicide Risk Assessment and Management in the Age of Telehealth
Overview:
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.
Biography:
Dr. Comtois is a clinical psychologist at the UWMC Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic, Professor at UW Department of Psychiatry, and researcher who has been working with suicidal and high emotionally distressed patients for more than 30 years. In addition to providing clinical work herself, she is a trainer and director of the Suicide Care Research Center (SCRC) and the Center for Suicide Prevention and Recovery (CSPAR) whose goals are to improve support for staff as well as suicidal patients and their families. Read more: https://uwcspar.org/faculty/katherine-anne-kate-comtois-phd-mph/
Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of this presentation, attendees should be able to: Appreciate methods to assess suicide risk over telehealth. , Describe how to prepare to care for those who are high-risk…
Event interval: Accessibility Contact: jerchris@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, June 20, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
Registration:
https://washington.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_woHQ0QRxTdKYft2vcjoywQ.
TeleBehavioral Health 2025: Clinician's Duty to Protect in an Era of Telehealth - Legal and Clinical Considerations in Washington
Overview:
The mental health clinicians' "duty to protect" others from violent acts of our patients is complicated and raises legal and clinical questions. This talk will review the standard in Washington, which is an outlier compared to other states. The talk will discuss practice pointers and consider a variety of clinical settings, including telehealth.
Jennifer Piel, MD, JD, Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Mental Health, Policy, and the Law in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington
Biography:
Jennifer Piel, MD, JD is an Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Mental Health,Policy, and the Law in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington. Dr. Piel is also a Staff Psychiatrist and Director of the Disruptive Behavior Evaluation Clinic at the VA Puget Sound, Seattle Division. She is Board Certified in general psychiatry, forensic psychiatry, and brain injury medicine.
Dr. Piel is a Fellow…
Event interval: Accessibility Contact: jerchris@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, August 15, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
Registration:
https://washington.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fbyiNMB3TSSo9-cZHNylaw.