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. All of the articles can be accessed for free on the Guilford Press Website by clicking on each of the links below:
- An Evaluation of Crisis Hotline Outcomes: Part 1: Non Suicidal Crisis Callers. Read More
- An Evaluation of Crisis Hotline Outcomes: Part 2: Suicidal Callers. Read More
- 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. Read More
- 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. Read More
- 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) Read More