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Webinar
Clinical Suicidology Update and What Makes Life Worth Living
Clinical Suicidology Update and What Makes Life Worth Living
This webinar will provide a general update on clinical suicidology featuring new developments in clinically assessing,...
This webinar will provide a general update on clinical suicidology featuring new developments in clinically assessing, stabilizing, and treating suicidal risk. Evidence based developments and related policy initiatives will be discussed. Beyond this update, an emerging clinical and...
Article
Validating the Suicide Status Form for the Collaborative Assessment and Management...
Validating the Suicide Status Form for the Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality in a Psychiatric Adolescent Sample
This study tests whether the Suicide Status Form (SSF-IV) — the core assessment tool used...
This study tests whether the Suicide Status Form (SSF-IV) — the core assessment tool used in CAMS — works well for adolescents, not just adults. Researchers gave the SSF to 100 psychiatric inpatients ages 12–17, alongside other...
Blog Post
Chronic Suicidality vs. Acute Crisis
Chronic Suicidality vs. Acute Crisis
When thinking about the experience of “being suicidal,” many people often imagine singular, acute crises. However,...
When thinking about the experience of “being suicidal,” many people often imagine singular, acute crises. However, this is not the only relationship with suicide that’s relevant for clinical care. While individuals can certainly experience acute crises characterized by...
Article
Zero Suicide: What about “Treat”?
Zero Suicide: What about “Treat”?
In this Crisis-The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention editorial, Julie Goldstein Grumet and...
In this Crisis-The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention editorial, Julie Goldstein Grumet and David Jobes argue that while the Zero Suicide framework has driven meaningful reductions in suicide deaths, its "Treat" component — the use...
Article
Novel Telehealth Adaptations for Evidence-Based Outpatient Suicide Treatment: Feasibility and Effectiveness...
Novel Telehealth Adaptations for Evidence-Based Outpatient Suicide Treatment: Feasibility and Effectiveness of the Crisis Care Program
This Healthcare study evaluates Crisis Care, a telehealth-adapted version of the CAMS Framework®, delivered to...
This Healthcare study evaluates Crisis Care, a telehealth-adapted version of the CAMS Framework®, delivered to 130 outpatient patients over 16 weeks. Findings show fast access to care and reductions in depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation across all...
Webinar
Understanding and treating suicidal thoughts and behaviors in autistic individuals
Understanding and treating suicidal thoughts and behaviors in autistic individuals
The webinar will review existing literature on higher rates of suicidal thoughts and behaviors in autistic...
The webinar will review existing literature on higher rates of suicidal thoughts and behaviors in autistic individuals. Additionally, the webinar will identify appropriate modifications to treatments to address suicidal drivers in this population, as well as how CAMS...
Article
An observational pilot of the collaborative assessment and management of suicidality...
An observational pilot of the collaborative assessment and management of suicidality brief intervention (CAMS-BI) for adult inpatients
Can a single 60-minute session make a meaningful difference for inpatients experiencing suicidal thoughts and behaviors?...
Can a single 60-minute session make a meaningful difference for inpatients experiencing suicidal thoughts and behaviors? Inpatient psychiatric care for this population remains highly variable, and patient-centered behavioral interventions are often absent at the level one setting. The...
Webinar
Providing suicide focused care in K-12 schools: Practical and actionable tips...
Providing suicide focused care in K-12 schools: Practical and actionable tips from the field
This webinar reviews how to begin developing, scaling, and sustaining tertiary interventions such as CAMS in...
This webinar reviews how to begin developing, scaling, and sustaining tertiary interventions such as CAMS in the context of K-12 schools. We discuss training, supervision, and implementation challenges, including how to set up informed consent procedures, strengthening mental...
Article
Suicide Prevention in K-12 Schools: Introduction to the Special Issue
Suicide Prevention in K-12 Schools: Introduction to the Special Issue
School-based mental health partnerships are vital for youth suicide prevention, especially in rural areas with...
School-based mental health partnerships are vital for youth suicide prevention, especially in rural areas with limited access. Evidence shows asking about suicide does not increase risk and aids early intervention. Developing comprehensive, multi-tiered approaches, including tertiary supports...
Article
The Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality vs. Treatment as Usual:...
The Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality vs. Treatment as Usual: A Retrospective Study with Suicidal Outpatients
This retrospective study compared CAMS — a collaborative, structured approach to suicide risk assessment —...
This retrospective study compared CAMS — a collaborative, structured approach to suicide risk assessment — against standard care in 55 military outpatients. CAMS patients resolved suicidality faster (~7 sessions vs. ~11 for TAU) and used significantly less...
Article
Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality in the Aftercare Focus Study:...
Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality in the Aftercare Focus Study: Costs, Benefits, Cost-Effectiveness, and Cost-Benefits
This dissertation by Phoebe McCutchan examines whether the Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality...
This dissertation by Phoebe McCutchan examines whether the Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality (CAMS) — a suicide-focused therapy — offers economic advantages over standard care for recently discharged psychiatric patients. Using data from a randomized...
Article
The Suicide Status Form-4 (SSF-IV) as a Potentially Therapeutic Suicide Risk...
The Suicide Status Form-4 (SSF-IV) as a Potentially Therapeutic Suicide Risk Assessment Tool
The first direct empirical test of a long-standing claim: that the SSF — the core...
The first direct empirical test of a long-standing claim: that the SSF — the core assessment instrument within CAMS — is not just a risk assessment tool but a therapeutic intervention in its own right. Working with...