Suicide Prevention Publications

Au, J. S., Degnan, K. A., O’Connor, S., & Jobes, D. A. (2025). Who responds to CAMS? Latent profiles of patients who received the Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality. Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy.
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Blalock, K., Pistorello, J., Rizvi, S. L., Seeley, J. R., Kassing, F., Sinclair, J., Oshin, L. A., Gallop, R. J., Fry, C. M., Snyderman, T., Jobes, D. A., Crumlish, J., Krall, H. R., Stadelman, S., Gözenman-Sapin, F., Davies, K., Steele, D., Goldston, D. B., & Compton, S. N. (2025). The Comprehensive Adaptive Multisite Prevention of University Student Suicide Trial: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR Research Protocols.
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Gerner, J. L., Mandel, A. A, Tucker, R. P., & Jobes, D. A. (2025). Predicting Self-Perceived Risk of Suicide: A Bayesian Multilevel Analysis of Suicide Status Form Constructs Using Ambulatory Assessment. British Journal of Clinical Psychology. 
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Lee, D., & Jobes, D. A. (2025). The hope institute approach to suicidal risk. Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy.
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Oakey-Frost, N,, Moscardini, E. H., Cowan, T., Gerner, J. L., Crapanzano, K. A., Jobes, D. A., Tucker, R. P. (2025). The Suicide Status Form-4 (SSF-IV) as a potentially therapeutic suicide risk assessment tool. Suicide and Life Threatening Behavior, 55.
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Vergara, G. A., Mandel, A. A., Adrian, M. C., & Jobes, D. A. (2025). CAMS-4Teens, suicide index score typologies, and family factors. Journal of Affective Disorders.
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Jobes, D. A. & Rizvi, S. L. (2024). The use of CAMS and DBT to effectively treat patients who are suicidal. Frontiers in Psychiatry.
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Reilly-Harrington, N. A., Falcone, T., Jobes, D. A., Deisz, C., Flannery, C., Wolf, A., Hu, B., & Anand, A. (2024). Ketamine treatment in youth for fast reduction of suicidality and engagement in psychotherapy: A randomized placebo-controlled trial protocol. Contemporary Clinical Trials.
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Santel, M., Neuner, F., Berg, M., Steuwel, C., Jobes, D A., Druessen, & Beblo, T. (2023). The collaborative assessment and management of suicidality (CAMS) compared to enhanced treatment as usual (E-TAU) for inpatients who are suicidal: A randomized controlled trial. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 14:1038302.
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Oakey-Frost, N., Crapanzano, K. A. C., Gerner, J. L., Cowan, T., Jobes, D. A., & Tucker, R. P. (2023). An observational pilot of the Collaborative Assessment and Management of  Suicidality Brief Intervention (CAMS-BI) for adult inpatients. General Hospital Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2023.09.009
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Adrian, M., McCauley, E., Gallop, R. , Stevens, J., Jobes, D., Crumlish, J., Stanley, B. Brown, G., Green, K. L., Hughes, J. L., & Bridge J. A. (2023). Advancing Suicide Intervention Strategies for Teens (ASSIST): Study protocol for a multisite randomized controlled trial. BMJ Open Access.
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Tyndal, T., Zhang, I., & Jobes, D. A. (2022). The Collaborative Assessment and Management of  Suicidality (CAMS) stabilization plan for working with patients with suicide risk. Psychotherapy, 59(2), 143–149.
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Rudd, M. D., Bryan, C. J., Jobes, D. A., & Feuerstein, S. (2022). A standard protocol for the clinical management of suicidal thoughts and behavior: Implications for the suicide prevention public health narrative. Frontiers in Psychiatry.
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Van Dillen, T. A., Kane, R. L., Bunney, B. S., Feurestein, S., Hopkins, C. L., Raimo, J. T.,  Stubbs, T., & Jobes, D. A. (2021). A model for the assessment, care, and treatment of  suicidal risk within the military intelligence community. Military Psychology. 
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Jobes, D. A., Crumlish, J. A., & Evans, A. (2020). The COVID-19 pandemic and treating suicidal risk: The telepsychotherapy use of CAMS. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, 30, 226–237.
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Jobes, D. A. (2020). Common sense recommendations for standard care of suicidal risk. Journal of Health Service Psychology, 46, 141-148. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42843-020-00020-3
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Brausch, A. M., O’Connor, S. S., Powers, J. T., McClay, M. M., Gregoray, J. A., & Jobes, D. A. (2019). Validating the suicide status form for the collaborative assessment and management of suicidality in a psychiatric adolescent sample. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior.
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Corona, C. D., Gutierrez, P. M., Wagner, B. M., & Jobes, D. A. (2019). Assessing the reliability of the CAMS rating scale using a generalizability study. Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention, 40, 273-279.
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Corona, C.D., Gutierrez, P.M., Wagner, B. M., & Jobes, D. A. (2019). The psychometric properties of the Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality rating scale. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 75, 190-201.
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Hamadi, A., Colborn, V. A., Bell, M., Chalker, S. A., & Jobes, D. A. (2019). Attentional bias and the suicide status form: Behavioral perseveration of written responses. Behavior Research and Therapy.
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Jobes, D. A. & Chalker, S. A. (2019). One size does not fit all: A comprehensive clinical approach to reducing suicidal ideation, attempts, and deaths. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16, 1-14.
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Jobes, D. A., Vergara, G., Lanzillo, E., & Ridge-Anderson, A. (2019). The Potential Use of CAMS for Suicidal Youth: Building on Epidemiology and Clinical Interventions. Children’s Health Care, 48, 444-468.
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Jobes, D. A. & Joiner, T. E. (2019). Reflections on suicidal ideation. Crisis—The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention, 40, 227-230.
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Kessler, R. C., Chalker, S. A., Luedtke, A. R., Sadkiova, E., & Jobes, D. A. (2019). A preliminary precision treatment rule for remission of suicide ideation. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior.
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Santel, M., Driessen, M., Neuner, F., Berg, M., Hennig-Fast, K., Jobes, D. A., & Beblo, T. (in press). Collaborative assessment and management of suicidality (CAMS) compared to enhanced treatment as usual (E-TAU) for suicidal patients in an inpatient setting: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. BMC Psychiatry.
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Brudern, J., Stahli, A., Gysin-Maillart, A., Michel, K., Reisch, T., Jobes, D. A., & Brodbeck, J (2018). Reasons for living and dying in suicide attempters: A two-year study. BMC Psychiatry, 18
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Huh, D., Jobes, D. A., Comtois, K. A., Kerbrat, A. H., Chalker, S. A., Gutierrez, P. M., & Jennings, K. W. (2018). The collaborative assessment and management of suicidality (CAMS) versus enhanced care as usual (E-CAU) with suicidal soldiers: Moderator analyses from a randomized controlled trial. Military Psychology, 30,495-506.
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Jobes, D. A., Gregorian, M. J., & Colborn, V. A. (2018). A stepped care approach to clinical suicide prevention. Psychological Services, 15, 243-250.
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Jobes, D. A. (2017). Clinical assessment and treatment of suicidal risk: A critique of contemporary care and CAMS as a possible remedy. Practice Innovations, 2, 207-220.
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Pistorello, J., Jobes, D. A., Compton, S., Locey, N. S., Walloch, J. C., Gallop, R., Au, J., Noose, S. K., Young, M., Johnson, J., Dicken, Y., Chatham, P., Jeffcoat, T., Dalto, G., & Goswami, S. (2017). Developing adaptive treatment strategies to address suicidal risk in college students: A pilot Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial (SMART). Archives of Suicide Research.
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Anderson, A. R., Keyes, G. M. & Jobes, D. A. (2016). Understanding and treating suicidal risk in young children. Practice Innovations, 1, 3-19.
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Jobes, D. A. (2012). The collaborative assessment and management of suicidality (CAMS): An evolving evidence-based clinical approach to suicidal risk. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 42, 640-653.
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