Death by suicide in institutional settings affects the entire system. This session will discuss the use of psychological autopsies to ensure best practices, inform policy changes, and enhance suicide prevention efforts and employee training. Topics include multidisciplinary reconstructions, strategies to improve safety, and methods to increase stakeholder buy-in and policy impact.

• Review ways to implement multidisciplinary psychological reconstructions in an institutional setting
• Discuss how psychological reconstructions can improve suicide prevention efforts
• Describe systems for tracking corrective action and training recommendations made during psychological reconstructions.

Level: Intermediate