Developing Suicide Prevention Competency Measures for Research and Practice

<p>In this course, Associate Director of Training Dr. Robert Cramer, Ph.D. (UNC Charlotte Violence Prevention Center, and Assistant Dean for Community & Global Partnerships, Dean’s Faculty Fellow), introduces a practical framework for developing suicide prevention: defining competencies via KAS, adapting training to context and level, shifting from prediction to person-centred formulation with STARS, and evaluating learning with psychometrically informed tools (e.g., STARS-P knowledge test, SCAF-R skills ratings). He integrates an ethics checklist – grounded in literature, ethics codes, licensure, and case law – to ensure practice is defensible, compassionate, and effective across programs, OSCEs, and CPD settings. </p>