Date: September 22, 2022
The developmental adaptation of CAMS for adolescents and introduces the CAMS Parent Report Form (CAMS PRF), a clinical tool designed to bring parents into suicide-specific treatment in a structured but flexible way. This paper offers practical guidance for clinicians on assessing parent strengths and needs, integrating parent perspectives without compromising the youth’s collaborative relationship with the therapist, and using the PRF to inform treatment and discharge planning.
Authors: Jennifer B. Blossom, Abby Ridge-Anderson, Molly C. Adrian, and David A. Jobes.
About the Author
David A. Jobes Ph.D. ABPP
David Jobes, PhD, ABPP, is the founder of CAMS-care, LLC. He began his career in 1987 in the Counseling Center of the Catholic University of America, where he developed a suicide risk assessment tool for college students that evolved into CAMS. Dr. Jobes is now a Professor of Psychology and Associate Director of Clinical Training at Catholic; he has trained thousands of mental health professionals in the United States and abroad in evidence-based assessment and treatment of suicide risk and the use of CAMS.