Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality (CAMS)
The Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality (CAMS), developed by Dave Jobes, PhD, is an evidence-based clinical intervention that has significantly evolved over 25 years of clinical research. CAMS is best understood as a therapeutic framework that emphasizes a unique collaborative assessment and treatment planning process between the suicidal patient and clinician. This process is designed to enhance the therapeutic alliance and increase treatment motivation in the suicidal patient. Central to the CAMS approach is the use of the Suicide Status Form (SSF), which is a multipurpose clinical assessment, treatment planning, tracking, and outcome tool. CAMS and the SSF can be used in a single session context or as a therapeutic framework for ongoing care. When used in ongoing care, CAMS assists the clinician in organizing the sessions to target and treat suicidal “drivers” and resolve suicidality. CAMS presumes the clinician brings their own psychotherapeutic expertise and when suicidality resolves the clinician continues with treatment or concludes treatment according to their own treatment model.
To date, CAMS (and the clinical use of the SSF) has been supported by six published correlational studies and one randomized clinical trial (RCT) to resolve suicidal ideation and psychological distress more quickly and for much longer than standard care. Currently, two well-powered RCTs are under way, and various CAMS-related projects are also being pursued.
To date, CAMS (and the clinical use of the SSF) has been supported by six published correlational studies and one randomized clinical trial (RCT) to resolve suicidal ideation and psychological distress more quickly and for much longer than standard care. Currently, two well-powered RCTs are under way, and various CAMS-related projects are also being pursued.
UW Annual CAMS Training |
Training is provided at the University of Washington and/or Harborview Medical Center in the Spring and is designed for clinicians at all levels and all behavioral health disciplines.
The training includes:
Cost:
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2021 Schedule
February 12, 2021
Level I – Introduction to CAMS with Focus on Initial Assessments and Single Session Intervention
9:00am-4:30pm
This initial 6-hour workshop will focus on the use of CAMS for first encounters with suicidal patients – functioning as some or all of an initial intake session as well as treatment planning for either CAMS psychotherapy or referral elsewhere. This 6-hour training will meet the state licensure requirement for medical and behavioral health professionals and is structured to be clinically relevant for as many School of Medicine disciplines as possible.
Learning Objectives:
February 19, 2021
Level II – Conducting CAMS in Outpatient Care to Resolve Suicidality
9:00am-4:30pm
Building on Level I, the second 6-hour workshop will provide training on conducting CAMS outpatient psychotherapy to successfully manage and resolve suicidality in outpatient treatment. This training will focus on behavioral and psychodynamic conceptualizations of the drivers that must be addressed to resolve suicidality and the transition from CAMS to follow-up care to address enduring problems (i.e., depression, interpersonal conflict, loss, etc.) that will be easier to treat with suicidality resolved.
Learning Objectives:
Faculty
Trainings will be conducted by Kate Comtois, PhD, MPH and Jeff Sung, MD, both faculty in Center for Suicide Prevention and Recovery at the UW Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.
Location
Both trainings will held online via Zoom webinar.
Register Now!
https://redcap.iths.org/surveys/?s=33NEJ8LEFC
Please email dbtcams@uw.edu if you have questions about this training.
February 12, 2021
Level I – Introduction to CAMS with Focus on Initial Assessments and Single Session Intervention
9:00am-4:30pm
This initial 6-hour workshop will focus on the use of CAMS for first encounters with suicidal patients – functioning as some or all of an initial intake session as well as treatment planning for either CAMS psychotherapy or referral elsewhere. This 6-hour training will meet the state licensure requirement for medical and behavioral health professionals and is structured to be clinically relevant for as many School of Medicine disciplines as possible.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the experience of suicidality and what drives and maintains it.
- Discuss the context of suicide care in health care systems.
- Understand how to engage a suicidal individual collaboratively.
- Understand the elements of Suicide Status Form and how to use it to assess and manage suicide risk and guide the initial session.
- Understand CAMS crisis response planning as a way to help suicidal individuals survive the “dark moments”.
- Planning ongoing or follow-up treatment using the CAMS framework.
February 19, 2021
Level II – Conducting CAMS in Outpatient Care to Resolve Suicidality
9:00am-4:30pm
Building on Level I, the second 6-hour workshop will provide training on conducting CAMS outpatient psychotherapy to successfully manage and resolve suicidality in outpatient treatment. This training will focus on behavioral and psychodynamic conceptualizations of the drivers that must be addressed to resolve suicidality and the transition from CAMS to follow-up care to address enduring problems (i.e., depression, interpersonal conflict, loss, etc.) that will be easier to treat with suicidality resolved.
Learning Objectives:
- Explain the role of direct and indirect drivers of suicide and their treatment in the CAMS framework.
- Understand the elements of the Suicide Status Tracking Form and CAMS Therapeutic Worksheet. Clinicians will learn how to use these to assess and manage risk and to engage suicidal individuals in the CAMS approach.
- Collaborative treatment - What is it? How do you know you have it?
- Do what you do best – Treating the direct and indirect drivers in CAMS.
- Resolution of suicidality – What is it? How do you know you have it? What is next?
- Understand the elements of the Suicide Status Outcome Form how to use it to close CAMS and move to other treatments or termination.
Faculty
Trainings will be conducted by Kate Comtois, PhD, MPH and Jeff Sung, MD, both faculty in Center for Suicide Prevention and Recovery at the UW Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.
Location
Both trainings will held online via Zoom webinar.
Register Now!
https://redcap.iths.org/surveys/?s=33NEJ8LEFC
Please email dbtcams@uw.edu if you have questions about this training.
Who should attend |
Training is designed for behavioral health providers from all disciplines working in both inpatient and outpatient behavioral health and general medical settings.
If you are not part of the Pacific Northwest community and would like to learn CAMS, please see CAMS-care for other training opportunities https://cams-care.com/ |
