Become CAMS Trained in a Suicide Treatment Therapy Framework
Become CAMS Trained in a Suicide Treatment Therapy Framework
Wed, Feb 22, 2023 8:30 AM MST (-07:00)
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Understanding the CAMS Suicide Treatment Therapy Framework
Gain an understanding of what CAMS (Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality) looks like in clinical practice.
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ProtoCall Services New Mexico 988 Crisis and Access Line, along with the NM Department of Health Office of School and Adolescent Health, is offering an Education Half Day for New Mexicans to join us and gain an understanding of what the CAMS (Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality) evidence-based suicide treatment protocol Framework® looks like as a suicide treatment focused framework.
In this training you will:
- Learn about the CAMS Framework®
- Gain an understanding of what CAMS looks like in clinical practice as a suicide-focused framework
- Better understand how the CAMS Framework® assesses suicidal states through a therapeutic assessment process in the first session with a person of concern
- Better understand CAMS driver-oriented treatment
- Better understand interim care within the CAMS Framework
- Better understand that setbacks occur and that the CAMS Framework can be used to re-assert the treatment model
- Better learn about clinical outcomes and dispositions within the CAMS Framework
- Understand how CAMS could be implemented as a System of Care within your organization
The CAMS-care Education Half Day is intended for New Mexico healthcare providers, administrators, graduate level professional counselors, psychologists and social workers, peer supports, community health workers, school based health centers, etc... It is appropriate for settings ranging from hospital networks and state agencies to counseling centers and school districts.
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The first 100 qualified New Mexico mental health professionals that attend all 7 components of the 2022-2023 NMCAL sponsored CAMS training opportunity will receive a free Managing Suicidal Risk: A Collaborative Approach, 2nd Ed sourcebook containing information about the theory, philosophy, and practice underlying the use of CAMS with people experiencing suicide and 3 additional CEUs.
- Participate in the Educational Half Day session on Dec 9, 2022,
- Complete the Online Foundational Video Course (pre-work),
- Attend the Online Role-Play Training class (7 CEUs),
- Complete the Knowledge Test,
- Attend 4 hours of Consultation Calls,
- Opt into the CAMS-care, New Mexico State Locator, and
- Participate in the CAMS for Teens Training scheduled for June 28, 2023 (delivered in an online classroom ) (4 CEUs)
All of these components are "Free" to qualified New Mexico mental health professionals as a result of funding ProtoCall Services New Mexico 988 Crisis and Access Line has been awarded from the NM Department of Health Office of School and Adolescent Health to deliver this training program.
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What is CAMS? CAMS is a proven evidence-based psychological intervention and treatment protocol for people experiencing suicide developed by Dr. Jobes over decades of clinical trial research. There is very little that compares to CAMS in terms of its robust evidence-base, its flexibility, and the relative ease of learning to use it with fidelity.
As a part of the Zero Suicide model, CAMS delivers an evidence-based suicide-specific clinical intervention and treatment for those at risk of suicide or those who are suicidal. These interventions and treatments have been proven to work through replicated randomized controlled trials (RCTs), which is important to ensure that not only do they work effectively, but to know for certain that they cannot do harm. Learn more here: www.cams-care.com
CAMS Framework is first and foremost a clinical philosophy of care that can be used across various treatment settings and different treatment modalities. It is a therapeutic framework for suicide-specific assessment and treatment of a persons suicidal risk. It is a flexible approach that can be used across theoretical orientations and disciplines to support a wide range of people you serve who are experiencing suicide risk.
When using the CAMS model, the mental health professional and the person of concern engage in a highly interactive assessment process where the person of concern is actively involved in the development of their own treatment plan. Every session of CAMS intentionally utilizes the persons of concerns input about what is and is not working. All assessment work in CAMS is collaborative; seeking to have the person of concern as the “co-author” of their own treatment plan.
A CAMS TRAINED mental health professional endeavors to understand the person of concerns experience from an empathetic, non-judgmental, and intra-subjective perspective. The mental health professional never shames or blames a person of concern for experiencing suicide; CAMS Trained professionals endeavor to understand the persons struggle through the eyes of the person of concern experiencing suicide risk.
