Suicidology News & Articles
The latest in suicide prevention news, articles, stories and other materials related to preventing and treating suicide risk.
How CAMS Empowers Families to Support Suicidal Loved Ones
Youth mental health remains a growing concern in the U.S. According to...
Best Therapies for Managing Suicidal Thoughts
What Causes Suicidal Thoughts? Suicidal thoughts, or suicidal ideation, can result...
Suicide Risks of Healthcare Workers in the US
Healthcare workers play a crucial role in our world. From routine care...
The Role of Family Estrangement in Suicidal Ideation: Understanding the...
Family is a central part of most people’s lives, but when family...
Colorado’s Blueprint for Suicide-Specific Care: How Children’s Hospital Colorado’s Crisis...
Through rapid outpatient services to divert unnecessary hospitalizations, the evidence-based CAMS Framework for patients and their...
Colorado’s Blueprint for Suicide-Specific Care: How the Office of Suicide...
Colorado has historically faced some of the highest suicide death rates...
Jumping in the Hole
I suffered for years with constant thoughts of ending my life, eventually coming to find comfort...
Big Ideas for Advancing Suicide Prevention
The recent end of the Spring 2023 semester marked my 40th year of working in the...
A Voice of Autistic Adulthood: Suicide & Other Challenges Amongst...
Think of the word: autism. What image comes to mind? How would you describe an autistic...
10 Tips for Using CAMS with Adherence
For a proven intervention to be effective in the field, clinicians must use the intervention with...
Tips for parents of teens struggling with mental health issues
Many well-meaning parents panic when their child is struggling with mental health issues, which may lead...
The Stepped Care Model in Clinical Suicide Prevention
This article describes several applications and uses of CAMS at all service levels and highlights CAMS-related...
988 and the State of Suicide Treatment in the US
On July 16, 2022, the United States took an enormous step forward in crisis care and...
Cultivating Perspectives | Managing Suicidal Risk, 3rd Edition
One of my favorites that is central to successful psychotherapy is the “cultivation of perspective.” In...
What to Expect When Calling a Suicide Crisis Hotline or...
The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is not just for people struggling with suicidal thoughts, it is...
Suicide Risk Factors and Warning Signs: What we’ve learned from...
It’s important to understand that there are many potential suicide risk variables, the following are a...
“It’s Not About the Nail”: confession of a problem-solver
When I was initially being trained to be a Suicide Prevention Call Specialist, I found it...
It’s Not Me, It’s You: Finding the Right Therapist
When “shopping” for a therapist you should put in as much time and effort as you...
Speaking of Suicide Website
Speaking of Suicide, a site for suicidal individuals and their loved ones, survivors, mental health professionals,...
Waking Up: Climbing through the Darkness
Waking Up: Climbing through the Darkness by Terry Wise. An inspiring story and a didactic model...
Choosing to Live: How to Defeat Suicide Through Cognitive Therapy
Award winning book that includes Appendix A: Guide for Concerned Family Members and Friends. Addresses some...
Today I feel silly: And other moods that make my...
Award winning book that includes Appendix A: Guide for Concerned Family Members and Friends. Addresses some...
Suicide is Different Website
A web-based resource that provides support to those supporting someone who is thinking about suicide.
The Jewish Body: A History
Although this book only devotes 9 pages to suicide, suicide loss survivors identifying as Jewish have...
How NeuroFlow is Combining Technology and Treatment to Prevent Suicide
NeuroFlow and CAMS-care partner to offer an evidence based therapeutic framework for suicide-specific assessment and treatment...
Clinician-Survivors: The Peril and Promise of Risking to Care
As a clinician and suicide treatment researcher, I have contemplated for decades the prospect of losing...
Podcast: To Hospitalize or Not to Hospitalize, the Question Most...
In this interview, Dave discusses his career in researching suicide and how Marsha Lineman encouraged him...
Suicide Risk: Effective Clinical Assessment, Management, & Treatment
Misunderstandings are common when dealing with suicide risk in clinical settings. Visit to gain some clarification...
Blog: CAMS Meta-Analysis: Intervention for Suicidal Ideation
I am delighted to blog about a brand-new meta-analysis of nine clinical trials showing robust support...
Lethal Means Safety and CAMS
It is interesting how ideas and constructs within suicide prevention that have been around for many...
The NEED for Competence and Confidence
I recently recorded a two-hour workshop on Zoom for a virtual presentation at the Psychotherapy Networker...
First Randomized Trial of Ketamine for Youth Suicidality to Launch...
Cleveland Clinic researchers have received a $2.5 million National Institutes of Health R01 grant to investigate...
Hope
Hope is such a simple word. Yet for suicidal people in the depths of despair, hope...
Considering Suicidal Ideation—Again!
In recent years I have spoken, published, and blogged about the relative importance of suicidal ideation...
CAMS-care Aims to Train 20,000 Clinicians in Evidence-Based Treatment of...
CAMS-care’s mission is to save lives through effective care by training clinicians to treat suicidal patients....
First Touch: Administrative Policy vs. Caring Concern, Empathy, Validation, and...
I believe there is often a unique moment, a window, of potential engagement that is squandered...
Jaspr: Using Avatars in Emergency Departments with Suicidal Patients Brings...
I was told about a fascinating study that was conducted at the University of Boston using...
Fear of Suicidal Patients and Taking the Risk to Care
A recent AAS listserv exchange got me thinking about the abject fear that many mental health...
Embedding an Evidence-Based Model for Suicide Prevention in the National...
This article describes a systems-level process improvement effort in the United Kingdom to raise the standard...
Obstacles to Suicide Prevention and Treatment Training
Suicide claims one person in the U.S. every 12 minutes, according to the CDC. That’s 123...
Self-Determination Theory (SDT) and the CAMS Framework® of Evidence-Based Suicide...
For those of you who use the CAMS framework with your suicidal patients, you know that...
Seeking the Military Suicide Solution Podcast: Retired Army Maj. Gen....
This podcast from Military Times examines the alarming rate of military and veterans suicide, offering new...
Working Competently with Suicidal Patients: Training Opportunities for Vermont Mental...
In a courageous article written for the Vermont Association of Psychoanalytic Studies, Dr. Debra Lopez describes...
Best Practices in Care Transitions for Individuals with Suicide Risk
In the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention’s new guide for best practices in care transitions...
Suicide: Another Curve In Need of Flattening
As if the medical, economic and social effects of the COVID-19 pandemic weren’t already enough, another...
Zero Suicide In Vermont
The Vermont Department of Mental Health (DHM) committed to the Zero Suicide framework for suicide prevention...
Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicide (CAMS) Introduction Webinar Recording
Watch a webinar recording introducing the Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicide (CAMS) hosted by The...
Place-Based Suicide Intervention Video
Learn about a place-based suicide prevention trial that’s taking place in Melton and Brimbank, Victoria, Australia.
Associations of Suicide Prevention Trainings with Practices and Confidence among...
Suicide and Life-Threatening behavior published "Associations of Suicide Prevention Trainings with Practices and Confidence among Clinicians...
Reflections on Suicidal Ideation
Crisis – The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention published an Editorial written by David...
Suicide Crisis: Can the rising rate be stemmed
The CQ Researcher (CQ Press) recently posted an informative article entitled Suicide Crisis: Can the rising...
Tianjin University Training
The CAMS Approach for treating suicide risk is becoming very popular in China.
Journal Of Affective Disorders
A group in Oslo, Norway found that “CAMS improved treatment outcome on suicide ideation and mental...
American Psychological Association’s (APA)
CAMS-care was recently recommended as a trusted resource for mental health professionals in the March 2019...