Aim 7
Mental Health Professional Training
Mental Health Professional Training
This aim focuses on providing evidence-based suicide prevention training to mental health professionals (MHPs) in an attempt to enhance MHP knowledge, skills, and positive attitudes toward working with suicidal clients and effectively managing their risk of suicide
Publications
Monahan, M. F. & Karver, M. S. (2021). Are They Ready Yet?: A Theory-Driven Evaluation of Suicide Risk Assessment Trainings in Psychology Graduate Programs. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 77, 1614-1628.
Gryglewicz, K., Monahan, M., Chen, J. I., Bozzay, M., Bender, A., Gleason, L. L., Witmeier, M., & Karver, M. S. (2019). Examining the Effects of Role Play Practice in Enhancing Clinical Skills to Assess and Manage Suicide Risk. Journal of Mental Health, 11, 1-9.
Gryglewicz, K., Chen, J. I., Romero, G. D., Karver, M. S., & Witmeier, M. (2017). Online Suicide Risk Assessment and Management Training: Pilot Evidence for Acceptability and Training Effects. Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention, 38, 186-194.
Presentations
Evans, L.W., Dennis, S., Le, K., Borntrager, L., Gryglewicz, K., & Karver, M. S. (2024, October). How does this work? Changing suicide risk assessment behaviors in mental health professionals through training. Presentation to International Association of Suicide Prevention (IASP) Pan-American Conference. Minneapolis, MN.
Karver, M. S., Le, K., Webster, A., Schuck, A., & Cao, E. (2024, January). Suicide Prevention: Where we have been and new directions. Keynote Speaker Presentation to the 6th annual meeting of the virtual Activist Lab Boot Camp.
Bohn, J., Karver, M., Roggenbaum, S., Sever, A., & Agrawal, K. (2024, January). Suicide Prevention Panel. Panel discussion member at the 6th annual meeting of the virtual Activist Lab Boot Camp.
Karver, M. S. (2023, February). Speaker. Speaker on Possibilities and Pitfalls of Conducting Applied Research in a Psychology Training Clinic which was part of a panel at the Clinical Psychology Area Meeting, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.
Orlowski, E., Gryglewicz, K., Nam, E., Le, K., & Karver, M. (2021, April). When All the Pieces Work Together: Examining the Unique Effects of Online and Role Play Components of Suicide Risk Assessment Training. Paper presented virtually to the 54th annual meeting of the American Association of Suicidology, Orlando, Fl.
Karver, M.S. (2019, December). Suicide Prevention: Research and Recommendations for Working with At-risk Youth. Invited paper presented for the annual David Gallagher Memorial Lecture at the NYU Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Grand Rounds, New York, NY.
Monahan, M. F., Gryglewicz, K., Chen, J. I., Bozzay, M., Gleason, L., Witmeier, M., & Karver, M. S. (April, 2017). Practice makes perfect: Examining the effects of role-play practice within a suicide risk assessment and management training. Paper presented to the 50th annual American Association of Suicidology Conference, Phoenix, AZ.
Karver, M. S. (July, 2016). Evidence Based Care for Suicidal Youths. Invited paper presented at meeting of Florida Behavioral Health Organizations and Community Mental Health Centers at New Horizons, Fort Pierce, Florida.
Steding, L., Karver, M. S., & Labouliere, C. (2014, November). Non-suicidal self-injurious behavior in students: Research-informed strategies for identification, response, and prevention in the school setting. Invited workshop presented at Hillsborough County Public School Professional Development event for middle school psychologists and counselors, Tampa, FL.
Karver, M.S. (2014, April). Chair. Chair for symposium entitled Enhancing clinical competency: An examination of three suicide risk assessment and risk management training programs for mental health professionals. Symposium presented at the American Association of Suicidology Conference.
Romero, G., Gryglewicz, K., Chen, J. I., Witmeier, M., Kutash, K., & Karver, M. S. (2014, April). Enhancing clinical competency in suicide risk assessment & management: An examination of the Question, Persuade, Refer, and Treat (QPR-T) Program. In M. S. Karver, (Chair), Enhancing clinical competency: An examination of three suicide risk assessment and risk management training programs for mental health professionals. Paper presented at the annual American Association of Suicidology Conference, Los Angeles, CA.
Karver, M. S., Brown, R., Gryglywicz, K., Witmeier, M., Elzy, M., Dean, M., Labouliere, C., Jordan-Arthur, B., Chen, J., & Kutash, K. (2011, October). Florida's Suicide Prevention Plan: Does it work?. Invited workshop presented at the 2011 Florida Prevention Conference, Orlando, FL.
Tarquini, S. J., Labouliere, C. D., Totura, C. M. Wienke, Kutash, K., & Karver, M. S. (2007, December). A SAMHSA initiative: The evaluation of a multiple component suicide prevention program. Poster presented at the SAMHSA/CMHS Youth Suicide Prevention Conference, Portland, OR.
Tarquini, S. J., Labouliere, C. D., Totura, C. M. Wienke, Kutash, K., & Karver, M. S. (2007, November). A SAMHSA initiative: The evaluation of a multiple component suicide prevention program. Poster presented at the Governor’s Office of Drug Control and the Statewide Office of Suicide Prevention’s 2007 Florida Suicide Prevention Conference, Tampa, FL.