Risk
Assessment & Intervention Tools
Social & Environmental Factors
Suicide Related Actions
Theoretical Frameworks & Models
100

Actions that may indicate an impending crisis.

What are Warning Signs?

100

A brief intervention to mitigate suicide risk

What is a Safety Planning Intervention?

100

A sense of being disconnected from a community.

What is Social Exclusion?

100

Thoughts of suicide without action

What is Suicidal Ideation?

100

A model focusing on emotional regulation difficulties

What is the Biosocial Model?

200

Strategies to limit access to means of suicide

What is Means Restriction?

200
Immediate support during a crisis

What is Crisis Intervention?

200

Emotional and practical assistance from individuals with lived experience

What is Peer Support?

200

A self-inflicted, potentially injurious behavior with intent to die

What is a Suicide Attempt?

200

A therapeutic method combining cognitive techniques for Suicide Risk

What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Suicide Prevention (CBT-SP)?

300

Factors that increase the likelihood of suicide

What are Risk Factors?

300

An obsolete tool where individuals agreed verbally or in writing not to attempt suicide, now replaced by proactive safety planning strategies.

What is a No-Suicide Contract?

300

An environment where emotional experiences are dismissed

What is an Invalidating Environment?

300

Self-inflicted harm without intent to die

What is Non-Suicidal Self-Harm?

300

A theory suggesting perceived burdensomeness and isolation contribute to suicide

What is the Interpersonal Theory of Suicide?

400

Factors that reduce the risk of suicide

What are Protective Factors?

400

Steps an individual can take during a suicidal crisis to maintain safety

What is a Crisis Response Plan?

400

Exposure to an event involving threatened death or injury

What is Trauma?

400

An action taken towards a suicide attempt, stopped by an external factor

What is an Interrupted Attempt?

400

The creator of the Interpersonal Theory of Suicide

Who is Thomas Joiner?

500

An action taken towards a suicide attempt, stopped by oneself

What is an Aborted Attempt?

500

Stimuli that initiate strong reactions and can be associated with fear processing.

What are triggers?

500

The degree to which an individual feels connected to their community

What is Social Integration?

500

An examination of a deceased individual's life to understand suicide

What is a Psychological Autopsy?

500

The final component in CBT-SP's Acute Intervention Phase that precedes Continuation Phase (fading out)

What is a Relapse Prevention Task?

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