Date: December 12, 2023
ASSIST is the protocol for a three-arm RCT comparing the Safety Planning Intervention with structured follow-up (SPI+), the Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality (CAMS), and enhanced usual care for adolescents transitioning from acute to outpatient care after a suicidal crisis. Conducted across two pediatric hospitals, it will help build the evidence base for brief, scalable, suicide-specific interventions for youth.
Authors: Molly Adrian, Elizabeth McCauley, Robert Gallop, Jack Stevens, David A Jobes, Jennifer Crumlish, Barbara Stanley, Gregory K Brown, Kelly L Green, Jennifer L Hughes, Jeffrey A Bridge
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.