Table 2.

AAS/SPRC core competencies targeted by the CTL educational workshop

Clinician competency domain	Detailed clinician competency	Corresponding AAS/SPRC competency number
Attitudes and approach	Manage one's own reactions to suicide	1
	Maintain a collaborative, nonadversarial stance	3
Understanding suicide and collecting assessment information	Demonstrate understanding of risk and protective factors	9
	Elicit suicide ideation, intent, plans, and related behaviors	11
Formulating risk	Make a clinical judgment of the risk that client will attempt or complete suicide in the short or long term	14
	Write the judgment and the rationale in the client's record	15
	Understand the legal challenges that are difficult to defend against as a result of poor or incomplete documentation	23
Developing a treatment and services plan	Collaboratively develop a crisis response plan that assures safety and conveys the message that the client's safety is not negotiable	16
	Coordinate and work collaboratively with other treatment services providers in an interdisciplinary team approach	18