Utility and Application of Psychosocial Needs-Based Assessment: Mental Health Provider Perspectives
Utility and Application of Psychosocial Needs-Based Assessment: Mental Health Provider Perspectives
In this course, Dr. Jacinta Hawgood shows why current instruments fail to accurately predict suicide and shares the results of her research into how trained clinicians use the comprehensive STARS protocol, a psychosocial needs-based assessment for suicidality that is based on empirical data.
About this course
In this course, Dr. Jacinta Hawgood, senior lecturer and Program Director of Suicidology at the Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention, Griffith University, provides information on why a comprehensive psychosocial needs-based assessment for the prevention of suicide is necessary. The talk is focused on research she did on the use of structured professional judgment through the STARS protocol (STARS-p) and how much STARS-trained clinicians use the protocol (long-term) for assessing suicidality. The study wanted to know why clinicians were using STARS, what the associations were between their use of the protocol and various demographic and clinical characteristics, and how the STARS protocol could be improved in practice. The findings are explained.