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.
Resource Types: Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Warning Signs of Suicide: A Fact Sheet for Family and Community Members
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.
Warning Signs of Suicide: A Fact Sheet for Clinicians
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).
Suicide and Serious Mental Illness: An Overview of Considerations, Assessment, and Safety Planning
Promoting Psychological Health and Suicide Prevention among Older Adults during COVID-19
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.
Increased Access to Mental Health Care for Older Adults: Getting Support during COVID-19
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.
Reducing Loneliness and Social Isolation among Older Adults
This sheet provides information on the risk factors for and impact of loneliness and social isolation on older adults, tools to identify loneliness in older adults, and interventions and resources to reduce loneliness and isolation.
Resources for Suicide Loss Survivors
This fact sheet describes the impact of a suicide death, suicidal grief, barriers to seeking help from friends and family, and special considerations for grieving children.
Understanding Risk and Protective Factors for Suicide: A Primer for Preventing Suicide
This primer provides an overview of risk and protective factors for suicide and guidance on how to use them to decrease suicide risk.
Financing suicide prevention in health care systems
This set of tools provides guidance on optimizing workflows and billing practices to finance the delivery of suicide prevention services aligned with the Zero Suicide framework. It is designed to help health and behavioral health care organizations use and maximize reimbursement mechanisms for delivering suicide care.