Cams Role Play

What is CAMS?
CAMS is an evidence-based suicide-specific assessment and treatment of a client's suicidal risk designed for clinical mental health providers only. The CAMS Framework is first and foremost a clinical philosophy of care. It is a therapeutic framework for suicide-specific assessment and treatment of a patient’s suicidal risk. It is a flexible approach that can be used across theoretical orientations and disciplines for a wide range of suicidal patients across treatment settings and different treatment modalities.
The clinician and patient engage in a highly interactive assessment process and the patient is actively involved in the development of their own treatment plan. Every session of CAMS intentionally utilizes the patient’s input about what is and is not working. All assessment work in CAMS is collaborative; we seek to have the patient be a “co-author” of their own treatment plan.
Who Should Complete This Training?
To be eligible for this specific training offering, you MUST be an Indiana collegiate student studying in a clinical mental health or similar clinical level program preparing you to provide clinical services in the behavioral health workforce. Additional seats are available for faculty and mater's level therapists as well.
Please note that the training has two separate components, an online self-paced 3-hour course, as well as a 1-day in-person role-play training. Participants must complete both the self-paced course and the in-person role-play training to become CAMS trained. PLEASE complete the pre-work once the training is received as the link will expire after 60 days.