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  • Videos
    Modifying your Electronic Health Records (Part 1)

    Becky Stoll, Vice President for Crisis and Disaster Management at Centerstone, discusses the way that the electronic health record can be used to ensure patients with suicide risk are closely monitored.

  • Videos
    Example: Modifying an EHR

    Virna Little, Senior Vice President—Psychosocial Services at the Institute for Family Health, provides a description of the company's recording and monitoring of assessment and treatment history for patients at risk of suicide.

  • Videos
    A Pathway to Care

    Becky Stoll, Vice President for Crisis and Disaster Management at Centerstone, describes how Centerstone engages clients in a suicide care pathway.

  • Videos
    Lived Experiences

    Leah Harris, Director of Communications & Development at the National Empowerment Center, shares her thoughts about the importance of involving people with lived experiences in leadership roles, to improve screening, assessment, and patient engagement.

  • Readings
    A Practical, Evidence-based Approach for Means-restriction Counseling with Suicidal Patients

    Bryan, C.J., Stone, S.L., & Rudd, M.D. (2011). A practical, evidence-based approach for means-restriction counseling with suicidal patients. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 42(5), 339–346.

  • Readings
    Safety Planning Intervention: A Brief Intervention to Mitigate Suicide Risk

    Stanley, B., & Brown, G. (2012). Safety Planning Intervention: A brief intervention to mitigate suicide risk. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 19(2), 256–264.

  • Readings
    An Emergency Department-based Brief Intervention for Veterans at Risk for Suicide (SAFE VET)

    Knox, K., Stanley, B., Currier, G., Brenner L, Ghahramanlou-Holloway M., & Brown G. (2012). An emergency department-based brief intervention for veterans at risk for suicide (SAFE VET). American Journal of Public Health, 102(Suppl. 1), S33–37.

  • Tools
    Patient Safety Plan Template

    A fill-in-the-blank template for developing a safety plan with a patient who is at increased risk for a suicide attempt.

  • Tools
    Safety Planning Guide: A Quick Guide for Clinicians

    This quick guide for clinicians may be used to develop a safety plan—a prioritized written list of coping strategies and sources of support to be used by patients who have been deemed to be at high risk for suicide.

  • Readings
    Safety Plan Treatment Manual to Reduce Suicide Risk: Veteran Version

    This manual describes a brief clinical intervention, safety planning, that can serve as a valuable adjunct to risk assessment and may be used with individuals who have made a suicide attempt, have suicide ideation, have psychiatric disorders that increase suicide risk, or who are otherwise determ

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