When is there too much religion emphasized in training such as suicide training for redeployment?

I totally agree on your point of view. If someone is so down that they have the potential for suicide, and if there is just a bit of hope in the training that they receive, even if it is just forcing them to talk to someone, doesn't have to be religious specific, but helps them to open up and talk about what their problem is, then I say, keep religion in the picture. I have no knowledge of any religion, except for one, that promotes suicide to its followers.

Ok I think I see where you are going with that. However, I believe it to be bordering inappropriate when the training is centered around a specific religious belief and any other way of thinking whether it be religious or cultural is completely shut down and shunned during the training. Especially when the training is thrown together to be a discussion and interactive. It is impossible to push the religious message of "don't commit suicide because it is evil and God doesn't want you to do it" without forcing the specific ideology that is associated with that particular religion upon the participants in the class. Not that I condone suicide or am an advocate for it, but the training should be simply about the point at hand. And if it reaches that one person and they get the message and turn around their thinking then that's great. But what about the possibility of numerous others completely shutting off and tuning out the training because of its religious themed message therefor not getting the message in the training?

So If I were to sit you down and teach you something, whether it be why you shouldn't do something or how you should do something else a different way because "God" said this, and "God" says that... then is that using religion ( although no specific God was mentioned), or would it be a spiritual approach?

I see spirituality as a generic term and religion as a more specific type of spirituality. However, I haven't thought too deeply about the topic. My statement was an opinion.