Suicide Risk & Crisis Intervention
When someone seeks treatment after trauma, counselors must complete a risk assessment, even when clients may not be demonstrating behaviors that seem high risk.
Complete Parts 1 and 2 of this form including references. Submit the completed form for your assignment.
Part 1: Suicide Risk Assessment
Assess risk for the client in the case study using the Suicide Risk Assessment Form based on the Suicide Assessment Five-step Evaluation and Triage from SAMHSA in 175–260 words. Use full sentences and appropriate grammar. Support your assessment with appropriate terminology from the DSM-5.
Step 1: Identify Risk Factors
What risk factors exist for this individual? Which factors can be modified to reduce risk?
Step 2: Identify Protective Factors
Which factors can be enhanced to protect the patient? Note: These protections may not counteract high risk factors.
Suicide Risk & Crisis Intervention
Step 3: Conduct Suicide Inquiry
Has this individual had any ideations, plans, behaviors, or intentions to die by suicide? To what extent does the patient intend to carry out their plan? How lethal or self-injurious do they think their plan would be? What are their reasons to live or die?
Step 4: Determine Risk Level / Intervention
After using your best judgment to assess the patient in Steps 1-3, what risk level do you think they are demonstrating?
Step 5: Document
- What do you think is the patient’s risk level? Justify your reasoning for this determination.
- What intervention do you recommend that addresses the current risks? What is your plan for treatment? What can you and the client do to reduce these risks (e.g., medication, setting, psychotherapy, interventions, contact with significant others, consultation)?
- Provide firearms instructions, if relevant.
- What is the follow-up plan? In the case of youths, what roles should the parent/guardian have?
Suicide Risk & Crisis Intervention
Part 2: Crisis Intervention and Safety Plan
Describe how you would apply the ABC model of crisis intervention in this situation in 260–350 words. List the next steps you would take and what might be included in a safety plan for this individual in 50–100 words. Cite the selected case and any other supporting resources used. Format your citations and references according to APA guidelines.