Resource Types: Fact Sheet/Issue Brief

It is essential that clinicians who work with adolescent clients at risk for suicide possess the skills to develop strong therapeutic alliances with these clients. This resource offers practical suggestions for clinicians working to build and strengthen therapeutic alliances, with a focus on adolescent clients at risk of suicide.

Correctional officers work a tough beat in law enforcement. Their job—keeping incarcerated persons and the public safe—involves working in a highly challenging environment with daily threats of physical, emotional, and mental harm. Suicide rates among correctional officers are much higher than those in the general population, but suicide among correctional officers remains an under-addressed problem in the field of suicide prevention. Drawing on research and the expertise of correctional researchers, officers, and clinicians, this issue brief describes the problem of suicide among correctional officers and identifies barriers and opportunities for suicide prevention efforts in the correctional officer workforce in the United States, with an emphasis on what clinicians can do to promote resilience, identify risk, and intervene clinically. This issue brief also identifies resources for additional learning about this topic.

Insights from individuals with lived experience can contribute to positive messaging, enriched programming, enhanced safety, and the destigmatization of an array of issues that impact individuals’ lives and wellbeing. This document is intended to serve as a guide for organizations that engage, or plan to engage, people with lived experience in prevention projects in a variety of fields. We describe characteristics of projects that incorporate high, medium, and low levels of lived experience engagement to help organizations make informed decisions about meaningfully incorporating lived experience in their own projects.

In 2021, the Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC) established a Lived Experience Advisory Committee (LEAC) to center suicide-centered lived experience perspectives in all projects and efforts. In September 2022, SPRC launched the Lived Experiences Initiatives team to coordinate with the LEAC and ensure SPRC’s prevention efforts reflect a nuanced understanding of suicide that centers the unique insights of those whose lives have been affected by it. 

This issue brief identifies some of the challenges clinicians may encounter when working at the intersection of intimate partner violence (IPV) and suicide risk and offers screening and safety planning strategies to consider when working with adult clients (i.e., patients) experiencing both suicide risk and a history of IPV. 

This fact sheet can help you recognize common warning signs that may indicate a person is at risk of suicide. It also provides tips on how to respond if you observe these warning signs in someone and when to seek immediate professional help.

This fact sheet is intended to act as a brief reference tool to help clinicians recognize signs that may indicate a client (i.e., patient) is at immediate or acute risk of suicide (i.e., risk of suicide in the following minutes, hours, or days).

This sheet provides information on how the COVID-19 pandemic impacts the psychological health of older adults and strategies for coping, supporting older adults, and seeking professional help. It also covers warning signs and risk factors for suicide, as well as screening tools to use with this population.

This sheet provides information on the potential effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of older adults, mental health care now available for older adults through telehealth and Medicare, and links to tools and tips for finding and selecting mental health care providers.