Stressors
When dealing with a person with thoughts of suicide, this mode of spreading information to others protects the person with thoughts and gets them the help they need.
What is a need-to-know basis
This is what the acronym ACE stands for...
What is Ask, Care, Escort
_____% of Americans have been affected by suicide in some way.
What is 54%.
This program is available to Soldiers to help alleviate financial stress at a 0% interest rate.
What is an AER (Army Emergency Relief) loan
This substance can exacerbate the situation for a person struggling with thoughts of suicide.
What is alcohol
You are talking to a fellow squad member at the DFAC and you are concerned that he/she might be considering suicide. You should...
What is Ask
When conducting part 1 of the ACE framework, should a helper frame the question indirectly or directly?
What is directly or the direct approach
In 2019, the suicide rate for veterans is _____ times higher than non-veterans.
1.5 times
This helping resource is available to all Soldiers at every duty location, usually has at least one team embedded within each brigade, and can provide longer-term care while maintaining some confidentiality.
What is Behavioral Health
This person, a famous comedian, shocked the nation when taking his own life in 2014.
Who is Robin Williams
The common suicide stressor known as polypharmacy...
What is being prescribed or using multiple drugs together at a certain time
When conducting part two of the ACE framework, a helper should use this listening technique.
What is Active Listening
47,511 Americans died by suicide in 2019, making it the ____ leading cause of death in the United States.
What is 10th.
This is the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer & questioning (LGBTQ) young people under 25.
What is The Trevor Project
This month is designated each year as Suicide Prevention Awareness Month.
What is September
This stressor can easily overwhelm a person dealing with thoughts of suicide because it oftentimes removes a key support...
What is a Relationship Stressor
This person among your unit formation has 100% confidentiality. If you have a person at risk of suicide and need to escort them to a helper, this person will get them help.
What is the Chaplain
Firearms account for ____% of all suicide deaths.
What is 50%.
Any Service Member or Veteran struggling with suicide can send a text to this number at 838255...
What is the Veterans Crisis Line
This common perception of suicide often keeps those who need help, from seeking it and needs to be eliminated.
What is a stigma
The military experiences this stressor more than many others due to PCSing, inter-post tranfers, and deployments. This type of stressor is classified as...
What is transition stress
There are 3 types of suicide care, prevention, which is the removal of stressors prior to suicide thoughts, intervention, which is helping someone actively having suicide thoughts, and postvention which cares for those after a suicide has been attempted or completed. ACE focuses on this method of suicide care...
What is prevention
In 2019, there were 1,187,775 suicide _________ in the U.S.
What is a Suicide Attempt
This is a United States-based suicide prevention network of over 160 crisis centers that provides 24/7 service via a toll-free hotline with the number 1-800-273-8255. It is available to anyone in suicidal crisis or emotional distress.
What is the The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
What is 700,000