Program details
Presenter: Erika Ryst, M.D
Provides 1.25 hours of CE/CME credit (Presented: April 29, 2025; Reviewed May 5, 2025; Expires May 5, 2028)
Online CME credit fee: $50.00
Youth Suicide: A Clinician's Guide Part II
Registration information
Instructions for receiving CME/CE credit:
- Click on the 'register now' button
- Click on the course to register
- Pay for the course
- After payment, you will click begin the activity
- YouTube will be embedded into the website
- Watch the YouTube video
- Click to claim credit
- Enter the activity code that was provided to you in the email confirmation
- Claim credit and generate the certificate
Overview
This presentation describes the current national youth mental health crisis and the importance of a comprehensive, cross-system approach to youth suicide prevention. Clinicians will learn the vital role that primary care providers play in screening, brief assessment, safety planning and referral of suicidal youth. Helpful tools for developing office-based youth suicide prevention protocols are provided.
This enduring material is part of a two-part program. Please refer back to the Youth Suicide Prevention: A Clinician and School-Based Approach page for part I if you have not already done so.
Objectives
Following participation in this course, participants should be able to:
- Understand risk and protective factors for suicide in youth
- Be able to identify warning signs that someone may be thinking about suicide
- List strategies for suicide prevention across a continuum
- Understand the vital role of primary care providers in screening, brief assessment and referral
- Know where to access resources to aid in developing a youth suicide prevention protocol for your practice
- Describe how to develop a suicide safety plan
- Be familiar with evidence-based treatment for suicidal ideation
Program faculty
Erika Ryst, M.D., Board-Certified Adult, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Medical Director, Nevada Center for Excellence in Disabilities, Research Associate Professor, UNR College of Education and Human Development, Adjunct Faculty, UNR School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry
Continuing Education Credit and Disclosures
Evaluation and Claim Credit
- Once you begin the video, you must watch it in its entirety to claim credit. Fast-forwarding has been disabled. You may pause the video briefly if needed. Do not close the browser window as doing so will require you to start over.
- Once you have reached the end of the video, a button to continue will appear that will take to evaluation and start the process for receiving a certificate.
- Failure to complete the process will result in the credit not being awarded to you.
- Should you need to restart the process, or download a copy of a certificate at a later time, please see the instructions for accessing the online portal here: Evaluation and Claim Credit
For questions concerning the online evaluation or your certificate, please contact our office at (775) 784-4791 or email us at cme@med.unr.edu.
Accreditation Designation Statements
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint providership of the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine and Renown Health. The University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education to physicians.
The University of Nevada Reno School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Continuing Education Credit
The University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine approves this program for 1.25 hours of nursing continuing education credit. Nevada State Board of Nursing provider number 120894-1.
This program provides 1.25 CME credit towards the Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners' requirement for 2 hours of training related to suicide prevention, intervention, and detection every 4 years.
This program provides 1.25 CME credit towards the Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners' requirement for 2 hours of training related to ethics, pain management, or addiction care during each licensure period.
As an accredited provider of continuing medical education through the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine must ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in all its educational activities. In order to assure that information is presented in a scientific and objective manner, The University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine requires that anyone in a position to control or influence the content of an accredited activity disclose all financial relationships within the prior 24 months with any commercial or proprietary entity producing health care goods or services relevant to the content being planned or presented. All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated. Following are those disclosures.
All presenters, planners or anyone in a position to control the content of this continuing medical education activity have indicated that neither they nor their spouse/legally recognized domestic partner has any financial relationships with commercial interests related to the content of this activity.