Intervention with those at risk

The American Psychiatric Association has available to download a copy of the Practice Guideline for the Assessment and Treatment of Suicidal Behaviors.

If you go to the National Guideline Clearinghouse and search for "suicide" you will get a listing of practice guidelines that you can review. These include:

The American Psychiatric Association Practice Guideline for the Assessment and Treatment of Suicidal Behaviors, Evidence-based protocol.

Elderly suicide: secondary prevention. University of Iowa Gerontological Nursing Interventions Research Center, Research Dissemination Core - Academic Institution.  2002 June.  56 pages. 

Emergency management of the adolescent suicide attempter: A review of the literature
[Journal article]. Published in: Journal of Adolescent Health. May 2002;30(5):312-25. The authors reviewed the literature on risk factors, assessment, disposition, treatment options and noncompliance of adolescent suicide attempters presenting to an emergency department. An assessment instrument, along with model guidelines for psychiatric referral of adolescent suicdie by emergency department staff was developed by the authors. A copy of the instrument, Tool for Evaluating Suicide-Attempter Teens [TEST], is included in the article. U of M staff can access an online copy of the article through the Electronic Journal Section in the library.

Still under construction 1/31/06