Brief Psychological Intervention after Deliberate Self-Poisoning
Information
Program costs include a standardized training manual, training, and the cost of four 50-minute therapy sessions held in the patients' homes.
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Contact
Elspeth Guthrie, MB ChB; MSc; MD; FRCPsych
The University of Manchester
Institute of Health Sciences
Manchester, UK
elspeth.a.guthrie@manchester.ac.uk
This intervention provides four sessions of psychotherapy for adults who have deliberately poisoned themselves. Treatment is provided in the patient's home by trained nurse therapists. A study conducted in the UK showed decreased suicidal ideation in those who received the four 50-minute treatments compared to those who received regular treatment. In addition, at the 6-month follow-up, it was found that only 9% of psychotherapy group members had harmed themselves again compared with 28% of treatment as usual group members.
Note: This intervention is a legacy program from the SPRC/AFSP Evidence-Based Practices Project (EBPP), which stopped conducting evidence-based reviews in 2005 when SAMSHA began reviewing suicide-related interventions for NREPP.
Implementation Essentials
Therapists skilled in interpersonal therapy.