Clinical Round Tables
Suicide and Self-Injury
Linda Oshin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Rutgers University
Edison, New Jersey
Kenji Takeda, Psy.D.
Clinical Psychologist
Rutgers University
Newark, New Jersey
Jeffrey M. Cohen, Psy.D.
Assistant Professor of Medical Psychology (In Psychiatry)
Columbia University
Brooklyn, New York
Christy L. Olezeski, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, Connecticut
The primary goals of this clinical roundtable are to illuminate the challenges and benefits of providing telehealth to individuals from marginalized populations who are experiencing self-injurious thoughts and behaviors (SITBs). While clinicians were often discouraged in using telehealth with individuals with SITBs, social distancing requirements during the COVID-19 pandemic expanded the use of telehealth to include this population. Barriers to accessing in-person care often disproportionately impacts individuals from marginalized populations (Chen et al., 2021). As clinicians consider their continued use of telehealth, it is important to consider the unique needs of individuals from marginalized populations to promote access and effective treatment of SITBs. The proposed clinical round table will gather researchers and clinicians who have experience treating marginalized patient populations for SITBs with telehealth. The round table will center the needs of these patient populations and discuss some of the challenges and recommendations in using telehealth to treat them. Specifically, the panel would include: 1) a researcher and a clinician from a trial of adaptive treatment strategies for suicidal college students to discuss their experiences providing empirically supported treatments for suicide to college students of color, 2) the director of an interdisciplinary pediatric clinic that provides gender-affirming consultation and treatment for transgender and gender expansive youth, and 3) a clinical psychologist from an academic medical center who provides Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to sexual and gender minority young people with suicide ideation.