Practice Standards

Suicide Risk Assessment Standards

The Suicide Risk Assessment Standards provides three example prompt questions with rationale for incorporating all three into a call. This document includes a listing of the 4 core principles: Suicidal Desire, Suicidal Capability, Suicidal Intent and Buffers along with the subcomponents for each.

Co-Pilot

The online Co-Pilot provides example questions for eliciting content related to each subcomponent in the suicide risk assessment standards.Many centers have placed a link on the telephone workers desktop directly to the Co-Pilot so that they can access this resource as needed.

Suicide and Life Threatening Behavior (SLTB) Journal articles

The June 2007 edition of SLTB features 5 articles related to crisis hotlines. Articles may be available at local libraries, or you may purchase access to the articles from Wiley Online Library.

• An Evaluation of Crisis Hotline Outcomes: Part 1: Non Suicidal Crisis Callers. Check library availability. Pay-Per-View.
• An Evaluation of Crisis Hotline Outcomes: Part 1: Non Suicidal Crisis Callers. Check library availability. Pay-Per-View.
• Comparing Models of Helper Behavior to Actual Practice in Telephone Crisis Intervention: A Silent Monitoring Study of Calls to the U.S. 1-800-SUICIDE Network. Check library availability. Pay-Per-View.
• Which Helper Behaviors and Intervention Styles are Related to Better Short Term Outcomes in Telephone Crisis Intervention? Results from a Silent Monitoring Study of Calls to the U.S. 1-800-SUICIDE Network. Check library availability. Pay-Per-View.
• Establishing Standards for the Assessment of Suicide Risk Among Callers to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. (please contact Gillian Murphy for requests of literature cited in this article) Check library availability. Pay-Per-View.