Stop A Suicide Today! understands the vital role that
health care providers play in the recognition, understanding, and management of
suicidal individuals. To help you recognize and treat your at-risk patients and
clients, check out some of the resources below.
Please note that we will continually update this page with
the latest events, clinical information, resources and research. Check back
often.
NOW AVAILABLE! Published in the May 2004 issue
of Psychiatric Annals, a
new review article of the APA Suicide Guidelines (PDF) is now available
to help you assess and treat patients with suicidal behaviors. Dr. Douglas
Jacobs, President & CEO of Screening for Mental Health and founder of Stop
A Suicide Today! served as the Chair for the APA Practice
Guideline on Suicide and co-authored this article, part of a special
Psychiatric Annals edition on suicide, edited by Dr. Jan Fawcett. Please note
that readers are encouraged to review the complete Guideline in order to
appreciate the full scope of the APA recommendations. For this purpose, a link
to the complete Guideline is available in the review article.
Originally presented as part of the University of Michigan Depression Center
Colloquium Series last December, this
PowerPoint presentation on Suicide Assessment contains many of the
elements found in the APA Suicide Assessment and Treatment Guidelines.
Douglas G. Jacobs, MD Editor
Review from the American Association of Suicidology "Clearly
this is one of the most comprehensive guides available on suicide. It is a must
read for every mental health professional and others devoted to helping people
forced with a crisis. Provides a very clear and understandable approach to the
phenomenology of suicide."
How can clinicians identify patients who may be at risk for suicide and take
the necessary steps to reduce the risk? Written by the top experts in the
field, this definitive guide provides clinicians with information and
strategies for appropriate responses to patients or clients who are at risk for
suicide.
This hands-on guide is written for those who have the common yet complex task
of assessing suicidality in a patient or client - psychiatrists, primary care
physicians, psychologists, psychotherapists, and other mental health
professionals.
The book helps professionals determine the risk level for suicidal or at-risk
patients and recommends a suicide assessment protocol that can be effectively
incorporated into clinical practice. The authors also provide guidelines for
intervening when a person is at risk for harming himself or herself.
Each of the volume's forty-eight contributors is an expert on an aspect of
suicide assessment and intervention. The breadth of knowledge offered in this
text speaks to the fact that suicide is a complex, multidimensional clinical
problem that requires a wide range of methods for effective assessment and
treatment.
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Find out more about
National Depression Screening Day, a program that includes online and
in-person screening for depression, bipolar disorder, generalized anxiety
disorder and PTSD.
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