Short Takes on Suicide Prevention
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An Introduction to the Zero Suicide Initiative with Julie Goldstein Grumet, Ph.D.
May 31, 2017 07:00 - 17 minutes - 6.94 MBAdam caught up with Julie at the AAS 2017 conference in Phoenix to chat about Zero Suicide. Julie is the Director of Health and Behavioral Health Initiatives at the Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC). Dr. Goldstein Grumet provides strategic direction to improve the effectiveness of behavioral health, clinical care, and primary care providers to recognize and respond to suicide emergencies. She oversees the Zero Suicide initiative for SPRC, supporting the work of state and health care ...
A new take on Zero Suicide and Risk Formulation with Tony Pisani, Ph.D.
May 31, 2017 02:15 - 17 minutes - 7.09 MBTony Pisani, Ph.D. (University of Rochester Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide) discusses his model for suicide safer care, prevention-oriented risk formulation, and the need for a common framework for assessing, communicating, and responding to suicide risk for clinicians, patients, and the medical record. Dr. Pisani will be releasing new materials and training opportunities soon. To be notified when updates are available, please visit tonypisani.info.
Reaching the Digital Native
May 19, 2017 00:35 - 25 minutes - 10.2 MBAdam interviews Dr. Nathaan Demers, Director of Clinical Programs at Grit Digital Health. Nathaan and Adam discuss an online program Grit developed to reach the digital native!
Creating Communities to Serve Those Who Served
May 17, 2017 07:00 - 28 minutes - 11.6 MBMelissa McHarg interviews Michael Haynie, Ph.D. the Executive Director & Founder of Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) at Syracuse University. The conversation takes a close look at AmericaServes. The mission of AmericaServes is “to empower human services providers in the United States, and equip them with the technological and informational resources needed to efficiently and effectively guide service members, veterans, and their families to the most appropriate services an...
Spiritually Integrated Care for PTSD and Moral Injury
May 03, 2017 08:00 - 42 minutes - 16.8 MBVeterans who present with PTSD and moral injury often report spiritual distress that places them at higher risk for suicide. In this podcast, we share up to date research on moral injury, spiritual distress, and empirically tested techniques for helping veterans use their own spiritual resources as an asset in their recovery. “Building Spiritual Strength,” a manualized group intervention for PTSD and moral injury, is described, along with resources for therapists who would like to learn new ...
Rocky Mountain Short Takes on Suicide Prevention: Straight Scoop for Veterans
April 19, 2017 08:00 - 1 hour - 27.3 MBMelissa McHarg takes the wheel as she interviews Roger Pipkins from Straight Scoop for Veterans. Straight Scoop shows what 2 guys can do to prevent Veteran Suicide.
Rocky Mountain Short Takes on Suicide Prevention: The Camouflage Closet: Strong, Resilient LGBT Veterans!
April 05, 2017 07:00 - 55 minutes - 22.2 MBThis week we have invited the LGBT Care Coordinators from the Denver VA, Ana Balzar, MSW and Shelby Scott, PhD, to interview the Producer and Director of the film "The Camouflage Closet", Heliana Ramirez, LISW and Michael Nedelman. The film grew out of a group LGBT Veterans that Heliana was working with at the Palo Alto VA. Nine Veterans were given cameras to tell their stories; their resiliency, their strength and their efforts overcoming. An amazing quote from the podcasts comes when Helia...
Rocky Mountain Short Takes on Suicide Prevention: health + people + purpose = The Team RWB Enrichment Equation
March 29, 2017 07:00 - 39 minutes - 15.7 MBWe are dropping this special edition of the podcast because when you are working with folks from Team RWB it is just impossible to keep it all to ourselves! Melissa McHarg is in the host chair talking with Mike Greenwood and Caroline Angel. Team RWB is a nationwide organization with over 115,000 members, in over 200 locations and their mission is to enrich the lives of America’s veterans by connecting them to their community through physical and social activity. #ItsOurTurn #EagleUp Mike tal...
Community Reintegration for Veterans after TBI
March 22, 2017 07:00 - 24 minutes - 9.97 MBAdam Hoffberg talks with Dr. Suzanne McGarity, a Clinical Research Psychologist here with Rocky Mountain MIRECC, and who recently moved to Denver from the Tampa VA. In honor of March being Brain Injury Awareness Month we wanted to discuss a recent paper of Suzanne’s that came out in the Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation. The article is titled “Community Reintegration Problems Among Veterans and Active Duty Service Members With Traumatic Brain Injury.” The papers findings “highlight the ...
Rocky Mountain Short Takes on Suicide Prevention: Talking Community Response with Denver Co-Responder Team Program
March 08, 2017 08:00 - 27 minutes - 10.9 MBHow communities respond to a mental health concern or crisis may directly contribute to consumer perception, potential stigma, and willingness to engage in help-seeking behavior. This week’s Rocky Mountain MIRECC Short Takes podcast highlights a local program invested in proactively reaching out to individuals who may experience mental health challenges, and build healthy relationships that better serve community members both in crisis and for the long haul. Please join Scott Snow (Director ...
Dr. Carl Castro on the Military Suicide Transition Theory, The Hemingway Effect and the Importance of Understanding the Military Family
February 22, 2017 08:00 - 32 minutes - 13.1 MBAdam interviews Dr. Carl Castro, retired Colonel from the US Army, about his extensive work in area of suicide prevention, especially as it relates to the military community. Their conversation is far ranging but really does a wonderful job discussing transitions as a way to understand suicide in the military community. Dr. Castro also tells us about Ernest Hemingway, an army Veteran, and how his death can serve as a paradigm to understand the suicide death of elderly Veterans.
Rocky Mountain Short Takes on Suicide Prevention: Collaborative Safety Planning for Older Adults
February 08, 2017 08:00 - 24 minutes - 9.88 MBThis week join Adam Hoffberg as he chats with Dr. Elizabeth Conti a clinical psychologist and Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the VA Center for Innovation. Dr. Conti, along with four of her colleagues from the VA’s South Central MIRECC published the manual Collaborative Safety Planning for Older Adults. Dr. Conti gives a wonderful overview of what a safety plan is and leads our audience through creating one. Then she answers why safety planning with older adults’ presents challenges that c...
Rocky Mountain Short Takes on Suicide Prevention: Craig Bryan on Fluid Vulnerability Theory - a way to Understand Acute and Chronic Suicide Risk
January 25, 2017 08:00 - 40 minutes - 16.3 MBThis week Adam discusses Fluid Vulnerability Theory with Craig Bryan, PsyD, with the National Center for Veterans Studies at the University of Utah. Dr. Bryan ducked into an empty room at the hospital where he was delivering a talk to chat with Adam. Craig served four years in the Air Force and deployed to Iraq in 2009 as Director of the Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic at the Air Force Theater Hospital in Balad. Later he worked with Dr. David Rudd has Dr. Rudd developed Fluid Vulnerability The...
Rocky Mountain Short Takes on Suicide Prevention: Working towards a better understanding of suicide loss
January 11, 2017 08:00 - 25 minutes - 10.1 MBSuicide is known as a rare event, yet the large number of those impacted by suicide (through exposure, and closer connections including bereavement) makes suicide loss relatable to every human. Preliminary research on suicide bereavement in Veterans and Military Families shows that military family members who have lost someone to suicide are at greater risk for depression, anxiety, and suicidal thoughts of their own. Melanie Hom, M.A., a clinical graduate student at Thomas Joiners’ Laborato...
Rocky Mountain Short Takes on Suicide Prevention: Rehabilitation in the VA is a Team Sport, so is Suicide Prevention
December 28, 2016 08:00 - 12 minutes - 5.03 MBAdam and Dr. Joel Scholten recorded this conversation in the lobby of the Chicago Hilton during the ACRM conference and just as Cubs fans were preparing for their appreciation parade after the team's historic World Series win. Joel talks about the importance of the rehabilitation team at the VA and the vital role they play in suicide prevention.
Rocky Mountain Short Takes on Suicide Prevention: Sleeping Well as an Upstream Approach to Suicide Prevention
December 14, 2016 08:00 - 25 minutes - 10.2 MBCould improved sleep potentially help prevent individuals from developing suicidal thoughts or behaviors sometime in the future? Rocky Mountain MIRECC Psychologist Sarra Nazem talks with Adam about her clinical work and research into evidence-based insomnia treatments as it relates to decreasing suicide risk. This topic is particularly relevant for providers working with Veterans and military, who experience sleep disturbances at increasingly high levels in the past decade. The good news: t...
Rocky Mountain Short Takes on Suicide Prevention: From Elementary School to Retirement: Suicide Prevention Throughout the Life Cycle
November 30, 2016 08:00 - 43 minutes - 17.4 MBRichard Egan shares his professional journey, which spans 26 years’ service with the Air Force (starting with munitions, “bombs and bullets”) to Suicide Prevention Training and Outreach Facilitator, Nevada Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Suicide Prevention. Nevada represents the only State to reduce (by a small amount) suicide rates from 1999 – 2014, while the rest of the nation increased upwards of 24%. How did they achieve this result? Mr. Egan describes a comprehensive ...
Rocky Mountain Short Takes on Suicide Prevention: Transgender Care and Resources with the VA
November 02, 2016 08:00 - 22 minutes - 8.99 MBAdam Interviews John R. Blosnich, PhD, MPH, from the VHA Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion. Dr. Blosnich's program of health equity research in VA focuses on LGBT Veterans, with specific attention to suicidal risk and examining ways that information about patients' social determinants of health can be part of adaptive health care systems.
Rocky Mountain Short Takes on Suicide Prevention: Talking to T2 about Mobile Apps for Mental Health
October 19, 2016 07:00 - 30 minutes - 12.5 MBAdam talks this week with Dr. Julie Kinn from The National Center for Telehealth & Technology (T2), a Department of Defense organization that evaluates new technologies for tele-mental health. T2 has put out lots of mobile apps focusing on the mental needs of Veterans, caregivers, service members and clinicians. The apps have been remarkably popular and useful. Adam explores the process of creating evidence-based apps that are fun, easy to use and beneficial.
PTSD and the ICU Nurse: Bolstering Resiliency in the Helping Professions
October 05, 2016 08:00 - 21 minutes - 8.6 MBAdam interviews a new addition to the Rocky Mountain MIRECC for Suicide Prevention team, Dr. Meredith Mealer. Meredith as done important work studying the high prevalence of PTSD in ICU nurses. Her work has found that ICU nurses suffer from PTSD at a rate comparable to soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Dr. Meale's research has also provided steps that nurses and ALL helping professionals can take that have proven to bolster resilience. The work is important for all in the helping...
Rocky Mountain Short Takes on Suicide Prevention: On Moral Injury and Suicide
September 21, 2016 13:00 - 17 minutes - 7.2 MBIn this week's episode Adam discusses moral injury with Georgia Gerard a social worker at Rocky Mountain MIRECC for Suicide Prevention. Moral injury is distinct but can also overlap with PTSD. It is important to tease out the differences and then help the individual back to a a place of acceptance.
Rocky Mountain Short Takes on Suicide Prevention: Dr. Kate Comtois on Caring Contacts - Simple and Meaningful
September 02, 2016 18:13 - 28 minutes - 11.3 MBAdam Hoffberg visits with Dr. Kate Comtois during a break in the Denver VA's Mental Health Summit. Kate discusses the simple idea of caring contacts as a way to prevent suicide and remain connected with our patients. Give it a try.
Rocky Mountain Short Takes on Suicide Prevention: Getting the Suicide Prevention Message Out
August 24, 2016 06:00 - 24 minutes - 34.1 MBDr. Nazanin Bahraini discusses how research in suicide prevention is made accessible through the art of dissemination and implementation.
Rocky Mountain Short Takes on Suicide Prevention: The Microbiome, Old Friends and Getting Outside
August 11, 2016 15:45 - 24 minutes - 10 MBThis week Adam interviews Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Hoisington, Ph.D., P.E., M.SAME, USAF, an Assistant Professor, and Environmental Engineering Division Chief, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, U.S. Air Force Academy. He is also one of the principle investigators with the Military and Veteran Microbiome: Consortium for Research and Education. Dr. Hoisington is the author on numerous publications in the fields of the microbiota, immunoregulation, and mental health, including l...
Rocky Mountain Short Takes on Suicide Prevention: Implicit Association Test between Death/Life and Suicide
July 27, 2016 14:34 - 19 minutes - 8.01 MBAdam Hoffberg interviews Dr. Sean Barnes about his paper “Moving Beyond Self-Report: Implicit Associations about Death/Life Prospectively Predict Suicidal Behavior among Veterans”. The paper explores suicide risk assessment, the limitations of self-report, and why advancing our understanding of objective ways to measure suicide risk is so important. Specifically it examines the predictive validity of the death/suicide Implicit Association Test (d/sIAT) as an objective measure of future risk.
Rocky Mountain Short Takes on Suicide Prevention: Combat Rush
July 13, 2016 20:20 - 21 minutes - 8.74 MBJoe Huggins interviews Dr. Lisa Betthauser about the concept of combat rush. Combat rush was first coined by Dr. Jim Grigsby from his work in the early 1990s with Viet Nam Veterans. Dr. Betthauser explores the role of risky behaviors in returning Veterans, the role of safety planning and possible positive psychological outlets.
Rocky Mountain Short Takes on Suicide Prevention: Validating the Interpersonal Theory of Suicide in a Veteran Population
June 29, 2016 06:00 - 16 minutes - 6.52 MBAdam interviews Dr. Bridget Matarazzo about using measures to test Dr. Joiner's Interpersonal Theory of suicide. This episode is of particular interest for any clinician who works with Veterans. Dr. Matarazzo explores to recognize perceived burdensomeness and thwarted belongingness in the presence of acquired capability through psychometric tools. And how these tools have been validated for a Veteran population.
Rocky Mountain Short Takes on Suicide Prevention: Talking to Patients about Firearm Safety
June 15, 2016 06:00 - 26 minutes - 10.8 MBAdam Hoffberg talks with Dr. Marian (Emmy) Betz about how to talk with patients about firearm safety in relation to suicide risk. Dr. Betz is an emergency room physician at the University of Colorado Hospital and has worked extensively in the area of lethal means safety for suicide prevention. Her most recent article published June 2016 is titled "Lethal Means Access and Assessment Among Suicidal Emergency Department Patients." Adam and Emmy discuss the balance between protecting rights, saf...
Rocky Mountain Short Takes on Suicide Prevention: Environmental Factors and Suicide
June 01, 2016 14:38 - 18 minutes - 7.42 MBIn this episode Adam interviews Perry Renshaw, MD PhD MBA, the Medical Director of Rocky Mountain MIRECC who is based in our Salt Lake City, UT office. Dr. Renshaw is the senior author on “Acute Air Pollution Exposure and Risk of Suicide Completion”, one of the American Journal of Epidemiology (AJE) and the Society for Epidemiologic Research’s 2015 Articles of the Year. Listen as they explore what role the environment plays in suicide and the clinical implications.
Rocky Mountain Short Takes on Suicide Prevention: Exploring the Possible Role of the Microbiome in Suicide
May 16, 2016 21:53 - 22 minutes - 8.88 MBOn this episode of Rocky Mountain Short Takes on Suicide Prevention, Adam interviews Dr. Christopher A Lowry, Associate Professor, Department of Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado, Boulder and Co-Director of the Military and Veteran Microbiome Consortium for Research and Education. This podcast looks at Dr. Lowry's latest publication and explores the relationship between the microbiome and suicide prevention. Military and Veteran Microbiome: Consortium for Research and Educati...
Rocky Mountain Short Takes on Suicide Prevention Nature and determinants of suicidal ideation among U.S. Veterans
April 18, 2016 17:23 - 15 minutes - 6.37 MBAdam Hoffberg interviews Dr. Noelle Smith. Dr. Smith is a clinical psychologist at the Tampa VA and affiliated with the VA National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. She specializes in working with Veterans with PTSD and is the lead author on a recent publication in the Journal of Affective Disorders. The article will appear in the June 2016 print edition and is titled “Nature and determinants of suicidal ideation among U.S. Veterans: Results from the national health and resilienc...