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Suicide-Related Training, Self-Efficacy, and Mental Health Care Providers' Reactions Toward Suicidal Individuals
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Abstract. Background: Mental health care providers commonly encounter suicide ideation and suicidal behaviors among their patients despite a frequent lack of adequate knowledge and competence regarding suicide risk management. Aims: This study examined the associations among self-perceived sufficiency of training, self-efficacy, anxiety, and attitudes related to working with suicidal individuals. Method: Participants were 289 mental health care providers who completed a self-report survey. Results: Path analysis results indicated that perceived sufficiency of training was indirectly associated with negative attitudes (i.e., avoidance and discomfort) and cognitive and somatic anxiety about working with suicidal individuals through assessment self-efficacy. Limitations: The current study utilized cross-sectional data, and there were occupational heterogeneity and geographical homogeneity among the mental health care providers sampled. Conclusion: These findings suggest that sufficient suicide-related training focused on risk assessment may decrease mental health professionals' negative and anxious reactions toward suicidal individuals and enhance confidence in suicide risk management.
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Service providers who complete suicide-related training gain more knowledge about risk and protective factors, are better able to conduct suicide risk assessments, and have increased confidence.
“Research indicates that service providers who complete suicide-related training gain more knowledge about risk and protective factors, are better able to conduct suicide risk assessments, and have increased confidence [61].”
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Only 50% of psychology interns and 25% of social workers have received suicide training in their programs.
“For example, Mitchell et al. [61] reported that only 50% of psychology interns and 25% of social workers have received suicide training in their programs.”
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Graduate education programs offer very little in suicide prevention and intervention.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Mitchell, S. M., Taylor, N. J., Jahn, D. R., Roush, J. F., Brown, S. L., Ries, R., & Quinnett, P.
- Affiliations
- Texas Tech University (US)
- Denver Health Medical Center (US)
- Orlando VA Medical Center (US)
- The QPR Institute, Inc., Spokane, WA, USA
- ORCID
- Venue
- Crisis
- Publisher
- Hogrefe Publishing Group
- Published
- 2020-09
- Volume
- 41
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 359-366
- ISSN
- 0227-5910 (ISSN-L)
- 2151-2396
- PMC
- PMC7347460
- OpenAlex
- W3000136718
- Cited by
- 59
- References
- 34
- Citations by year
- 2026: 10 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 1
- FWCI
- 2.50
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Crisis (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (5t32mh020061-25)
- National Institute of Mental Health (T32-MH020061)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychiatric care and mental health services
- Keywords
- self-efficacy, mental health care providers, anxiety, suicide risk management, suicide risk assessment, professional competence
- MeSH terms
- Social Workers, Counselors, Psychotherapists, Attitude of Health Personnel, Clinical Competence, Female, Health Personnel, Humans, Male, Nurse Practitioners, Psychiatry, Psychology, Risk, Suicide, Attempted, Self Efficacy, Suicidal Ideation
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