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The assessment and management of people at risk of suicide: For emergency departments and mental health services acute assessment settings [New Zealand]
URL: http://www.nzgg.org.nz/guidelines/0005/Assessment_Management_Algorithm.pdf
Commissioned by the Ministry of Health and developed by the New Zealand Guidelines Group (NZGG), these evidence-based guidelines offer "how to" advice on assessing and managing people presenting at hospitals with suicidal thoughts, or after a suicide attempt.
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Assessment of suicidal risk in adults and older adults
URL: http://www2.endingsuicide.com/TopicReq?id=1918
An online listing of interview, self-report, and screening tools for assessing suicide in adults in older adults, including behaviors, ideation, behaviors, risk, medical lethality, hopelessness, reasons for living, and provider attitudes and knowledge. Includes psychometric properties and references. Reproduced from a technical report submitted to the National Institute of Mental Health by GK Brown.
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Assessment of suicidal risk in children and adolescents
URL: http://www2.endingsuicide.com/TopicReq?id=1919
An online listing of interview, self-report, and screening tools for assessing suicide in children and adolescents, including behaviors, risk, intentionality, attitudes, reasons, exposure to suicide, and other factors. Includes psychometric properties, where to obtain the instrument, and references. Reproduced from a technical report submitted to the National Institute of Mental Health by D. Goldston (2000).
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Elder suicide prevention: A review of best practices and recommendations for state initiatives in Maine
URL: http://www.sprc.org/library/elderSPmaine.pdf
This manual describes: evidence based practices of elder suicide prevention; screening tools for assessing elder suicide risk; best practices in elder suicide prevention across the U.S.; current training programs for direct care staff in other states; public awareness education campaigns; and funding sources that could support Maine in pursuing this issue further. Prepared for the Joint Advisory Committee on Select Services for Older Persons (JAC) and the Maine Department of Health and Human Services.
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Mood disorders and substance use disorder: A complex comorbidity
URL: http://www.drugabuse.gov/PDF/Perspectives/vol3no1/MoodDis.pdf
NIDA Science and Practice Perspectives, 2005 Dec. This article explores the prevalence and relationship of co-occurring mood disorders and substance use disorders, describes a methodical approach to assessment, and reviews evidence based psychotherapeutic and pharmacotherapeutic treatments.
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National guidelines for seniors' mental health: The assessment of suicide risk and prevention of suicide (Canada)
URL: http://www.ccsmh.ca/en/natlGuidelines/suicide.cfm
National guidelines for seniors’ mental health series. Canada. The first interdisciplinary, national best practices guidelines to specifically address seniors’ suicide. These guidelines were written by and for interdisciplinary teams of health care professionals from across Canada.
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Perinatal depression: Prevalence, screening accuracy, and screening outcomes
URL: http://www.ahrq.gov/downloads/pub/evidence/pdf/peridepr/peridep.pdf
Overviews 30 research studies on the subject. Conclusions: available research suggests that depression is one of the most common perinatal complications and that fairly accurate and feasible screening measures are available.
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Practice guideline for the assessment and treatment of patients with suicidal behaviors
URL: http://www.psychiatryonline.com/pracGuide/pracGuideTopic_14.aspx
This practice guideline is based on available evidence and clinical consensus and offers recommendations to help psychiatrists in assessing and treating adult patients with suicidal behaviors. This report is not intended to be construed or to serve as a standard of medical care. Standards of medical care are determined on the basis of all clinical data available for an individual patient and are subject to change as scientific knowledge and technology advance and practice patterns evolve. These parameters of practice should be considered guidelines only.
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Practice parameter for the assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with substance use disorders.
URL: http://www.guideline.gov/summary/summary.aspx?doc_id=6507
This practice guideline seeks to aid clinicians in the assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with substance use disorders.
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Resource guide for implementing the 2007 Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare patient safety goals on suicide
URL: http://www.sprc.org/library/jcsafetygoals.pdf
This document serves as a resource guide, using the B-SAFE protocol as a centerpiece to facilitate implementation of the Joint Commission patient safety goal on suicide.
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The returning veteran of the Iraq War: Background issues and assessment guidelines
URL: http://www.ptsd.va.gov/professional/manuals/manual-pdf/iwcg/iraq_clinician_guide_ch_3.pdf
From the document: Addresses the following issues: a) What are the features of the Iraq War that may significantly impact the quality of life, well-being, and mental health of returning veterans? b) What are important areas of functioning to evaluate in returning veterans? and c) What might be beneficial for veterans of the Iraq War who present clinically needrequest clinical services? The information presented provides an initial schematic so that clinicians in the Department of Veterans Affairs can begin to appreciate the experience of soldiers returning from the Iraq War.
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SAFE-T pocket card
URL: http://www.sprc.org/library/safe_t_pcktcrd_edc.pdf
The SAFE-T card guides clinicians through five steps which address the patient’s level of suicide risk and suggest appropriate interventions. It is intended to provide an accessible and portable resource to the mental health professional whose clinical practice includes suicide assessment. The card lists key risk and protective factors that should be considered in the course of completing the five steps. This version of the card, updated in 2009, addresses both adult and adolescent populations. The PDF image of the card prints out in the center of an 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper because the original is a 6" x 7" two-sided, folded pocket card. Quantities of the SAFE-T cards may be ordered through Screening for Mental Health, Inc. at http://www.sprc.org/library/SAFE-TOrderForm.pdf. To obtain a free print quality file for reproducing the cards, please email info@sprc.org, including your name, the name of your organization/company, and your plans for using the SAFE-T cards.
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Screening as an approach to suicide prevention in adolescents
URL: http://www.sprc.org/featured_resources/trainingandevents/conferences/pa/pdf/ScreeningApproachSuicidePrevention.pdf
From SPRC’s Suicide Prevention Regional Planning Conference- Regions 3 & 5, May 2005. This presentation by Jvan Pena and Eric Caine describes terminology, methods, and tools for adolescent suicide screening as well discusses feasibility, effectiveness and considerations for implanting a screening program.
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Screening for depression and suicidality in a VA primary care setting: 2 items are better than 1 Item
URL: http://www.ajmc.com/Article.cfm?Menu=1&ID=2761
American Journal of Managed Care. 2004 Nov; Clinical: 839-45. Compares To evaluate a single item depression screen the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ) as tools in screening for depression and suicidality in a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) primary care setting.
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Screening for suicide risk
URL: http://odphp.osophs.dhhs.gov/pubs/guidecps/PDF/CH50.PDF
In U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, Guide to clinical preventive services, Second Edition (pp. 547-55). Washington: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Describes: suicide data for 1993; accuracy of screening tests; and effectiveness of early detection.
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Screening for suicide risk: recommendation statement
URL: http://guideline.gov/summary/summary.aspx?doc_id=4778&nbr=3457&string=screening+AND+suicide
Summary of the following article: Screening for suicide risk: recommendation and rationale. Ann Intern Med 2004 May 18;140(10):820-1. States the recommendations made by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) on screening for suicide.
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Suicide Assessment and Prevention for Older Adults
URL: http://www.ccsmh.ca/pdf/CCSMH_suicideBrochure.pdf
This brochure describes how clinicians can recognize suicide risk, engage at-risk elders in the assessment process, perform an assessment, and address immediate and ongoing risk management. It also lists risk and resiliency factors, warning signs, and organizations that can provide additional information.
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Table of all screening tools & rating scales
URL: http://www2.massgeneral.org/schoolpsychiatry/screeningtools_table.asp
The screening tools and rating scales in this table can be used to help measure a young person’s mental health symptoms, and/or measure progress after interventions are put in place at school or at home. For each screening tool or rating scale, the table indicates: the age range for the instrument, who completes the instrument, the number of items in the instrument and how long it takes to complete, and whether free access is available on line.
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Use of screening to identify and engage students at risk: Overview of campus screening, The
URL: http://www.sprc.org/grantees/campus/PDF/Haas_EvaluationScreeningPrograms.pdf
Campus Suicide Prevention Grantee Technical Assistance Meeting. January 17-19, 2007, Gaithersburg, MD. Highlights key issues in designing and implementing a campus-based program to screen students for suicide risk and encourage them to seek help.
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