Risk
Actions that may indicate an impending crisis.
What are Warning Signs?
A brief intervention to mitigate suicide risk
What is a Safety Planning Intervention?
A sense of being disconnected from a community.
What is Social Exclusion?
Thoughts of suicide without action
What is Suicidal Ideation?
A model focusing on emotional regulation difficulties
What is the Biosocial Model?
Strategies to limit access to means of suicide
What is Means Restriction?
What is Crisis Intervention?
Emotional and practical assistance from individuals with lived experience
What is Peer Support?
A self-inflicted, potentially injurious behavior with intent to die
What is a Suicide Attempt?
A therapeutic method combining cognitive techniques for Suicide Risk
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Suicide Prevention (CBT-SP)?
Factors that increase the likelihood of suicide
What are Risk Factors?
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?
An environment where emotional experiences are dismissed
What is an Invalidating Environment?
Self-inflicted harm without intent to die
What is Non-Suicidal Self-Harm?
A theory suggesting perceived burdensomeness and isolation contribute to suicide
What is the Interpersonal Theory of Suicide?
Factors that reduce the risk of suicide
What are Protective Factors?
Steps an individual can take during a suicidal crisis to maintain safety
What is a Crisis Response Plan?
Exposure to an event involving threatened death or injury
What is Trauma?
An action taken towards a suicide attempt, stopped by an external factor
What is an Interrupted Attempt?
The creator of the Interpersonal Theory of Suicide
Who is Thomas Joiner?
An action taken towards a suicide attempt, stopped by oneself
What is an Aborted Attempt?
Stimuli that initiate strong reactions and can be associated with fear processing.
What are triggers?
The degree to which an individual feels connected to their community
What is Social Integration?
An examination of a deceased individual's life to understand suicide
What is a Psychological Autopsy?
The final component in CBT-SP's Acute Intervention Phase that precedes Continuation Phase (fading out)
What is a Relapse Prevention Task?