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Webinar Information
Event date(s) and time(s): Friday, November 6, 2026, from 11am to 12pm CST
Location: Virtual via Microsoft Teams Webinar
Cost per person: $25: student cost $20
Continuing education credits: 1 hour
Webinar Description
Older-adult suicide risk often emerges at the intersection of depression, grief, chronic pain or illness, functional or cognitive change, social disconnection, perceived burdensomeness, loss of role or autonomy, and access to highly lethal means. This one-hour seminar will help clinicians ask directly and respectfully about suicide, recognize age-salient risk and protective factors, and integrate medical, cognitive, functional, social, cultural, and end-of-life information into a collaborative risk formulation. Participants will consider practical responses including safety planning, lethal-means safety, treatment and referral pathways, coordination with caregivers and health-care systems, and connection with community supports. The session will emphasize autonomy, cultural humility, heterogeneity, and the preventive value of sustained human connection.
Learning Objectives
After attending this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Construct an age-responsive suicide-risk formulation that incorporates at least three relevant domains, such as medical or functional change, cognition, identity and culture, social connection, perceived control, protective factors, and access to lethal means
- Learn to select and justify at least two clinical or community-based responses for an older-adult case, including collaborative safety or lethal-means planning and adapted to the person’s abilities, values, and setting
Ki, M., Lapierre, S., Gim, B., Hwang, M., Kang, M., Dargis, L., Jung, M., Koh, E. J., & Mishara, B. (2024). A systematic review of psychosocial protective factors against suicide and suicidality among older adults. International Psychogeriatrics, 36(5), 346-370. https://doi.org/10.1017/S104161022300443X
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. (2023). Interventions to prevent older adult suicide: Final report. https://aspe.hhs.gov/reports/interventions-prevent-older-adult-suicide
Who Should Attend
This introductory offering is appropriate to mental health professionals across all levels of training and experience.
About the Presenter
Dr. Kristen Payne is a clinical psychologist, psychology adjunct faculty member, and private practice clinician. Dr. Payne received training in clinical geropsychology through graduate study at the University of Alabama and a psychology internship at the Milwaukee VA, with additional end-of-life and palliative-care experience at those sites and the Portland VA Medical Center. Across VA and hospital settings, Dr. Payne has worked with older adults experiencing diverse medical, neurological, pain-related, functional, and behavioral-health concerns. This experience has included home-based primary care, services for LGBTQ+ elders, neurology clinics, and pain clinics. Dr. Payne’s clinical interests include evidence-based assessment and intervention, suicide-risk assessment and management, health psychology, and developmentally responsive care for older adults.
Continuing Education Information
- The Center for Behavioral Medicine is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Center for Behavioral Medicine maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
- The Center for Behavioral Medicine has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7442. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Center for Behavioral Medicine is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
Please note that no partial credits will be given. To receive continuing education credits, participants must attend for the entire length of the webinar. This webinar will be recorded.
Cost per person: $25; Student cost $20
Registration: Please use one of the links below to register and pay for the workshop. After you submit your payment, you will receive an emailed Microsoft Teams Registration Form to complete.
*NO refunds for cancellations made within 24 hours of the Webinar or if the Webinar was not attended*
Registration will close on Thursday, November 5th at 3:00 p.m.