More than 700,000 people die by suicide worldwide each year, and many more have suicidal thoughts or attempt suicide. Regardless of where you work or live, you can learn how to help.
This comprehensive educational experience will feature a hybrid learning approach, combining asynchronous modules with live, online modules over a 4-week period. These dynamic modules are designed to increase your knowledge and improve your skills and confidence
Course Dates: October 1-October 27, 2025
Access weekly asynchronous modules and live, online discussions on October 8, 2025, 6:00 pm– 7:30 pm ET & October 15, 6:00 pm–7:30 pm ET
Price: AOTA Members: $99 | Nonmembers: $150
CE Credit: .6 AOTA CEUs (6 Contact Hours/7.5 NBCOT PDUs)
This course provides an assessment to enable the provision of AOTA CEU's.
3 hours of the course are spent in 'live' online sessions using the Zoom platform
Special Alerts:
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In order to allow for personal attention and valuable class interaction, we are capping registrations at 50 people. As interest in this program has been high, we encourage you to purchase soon to secure your spot.
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Due to the cohort model of this program, the course will not be accessible on your OTlearn (otlearn.aota.org) account until October 1, 2025.
Following this course, participants will be able to:
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List suicide warning signs and risk and protective factors
Demonstrate techniques to elicit suicidal ideation and history of behaviors
Identify strategies and tools to assess risk
Describe how a client’s ambivalence about suicide is an opportunity to intervene and how the client may view suicide as a coping strategy
Explain the value of appropriate postvention and grief support services for individuals and communities affected by suicide .
Taking this course makes you eligible for the Understanding and Responding to Suicide Risk micro credential. Simply complete this course AND the Suicide Awareness course.
When both are complete, request your digital badge through the course.
Speakers:
Larry Berkowitz, EdD is the co-founder and director of Riverside Trauma Center. His clinical areas of expertise include working with children, adolescents, adults, and families who are trauma survivors and/or suicide loss survivors. He serves on the Executive Committee of the Massachusetts Coalition for Suicide Prevention and holds an appointment as an adjunct faculty member in the Clinical Psychology program at William James College.
Quinn Tyminski, OTD, OTR.L, BCMH is an Assistant Professor of Occupational Therapy and Psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, where she focuses on improving occupational participation and quality of life for minoritized populations in multiple settings.
Stephen Nawotniak, OTR/L, NYCPS is a Psychiatric Rehabilitation Specialist at The Alliance for Rights and Recover. He is the author of Handbook for Healthy Living with Mood Disorder, Bipolar Life Hacks: Keys to Loving Live with a Bipolar Disorder, and the award winning Mubu the Morph children's book series (now in its second edition!).
For questions, please contact customer service at customerservice@aota.org