Key Points found in Scroll Box below:
1. Standard of care interventions: Inpatient and Anti-depressants
2. Caring letters
3. Effective psychotherapies for suicidal individuals have (at least) 2 differences:
-Treating suicide directly (not just by treating the diagnosis)
-Using an overtly collaborative stance rather than psychiatric interview.
4. Secondary Drivers of Suicidality:
-Pain and Medical problems
-Homelesness
-Interpersonal conflict or loss
-Financial Stress
5. Psychotherapy: CBT and DBT

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- Comtois, Kate Ph.D. MPH. Treatment Interventions for Suicide Prevention. University of Washington.

Update
Suicide Prevention in Indigenous
Communities: Proceedings
of a Workshop

- National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education; Health and Medicine Division; Board on Children, Youth, and Families; Board on Health Care Services; Forum for Children's Well-Being; Forum on Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders, Nass, S. J., Haircrow, S. R., & Amankwah, F. K. (Eds.). (2022). Suicide Prevention in Indigenous Communities: Proceedings of a Workshop. National Academies Press (US).

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Hilliard, M. E., Eakin, M. N., Borrelli, B., Green, A., & Riekert, K. A. (2015). Medication beliefs mediate between depressive symptoms and medication adherence in cystic fibrosis. Health Psychology, 34(5), 496–504.

Mughal, F., Gorton, H. C., Michail, M., Robinson, J., & Saini, P. (2021). Suicide prevention in primary care: The opportunity for intervention [Editorial]. Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention, 42(4), 241–246.

Sinyor, M. (2020). Review of Suicide prevention [Review of the book <I>suicide prevention</i> (3rd revised ed.), by N. Kapur & R. D. Goldney]. Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention. Advance online publication.

Westefeld, J. S. (2019). Suicide prevention and psychology: A call to action. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 50(1), 1–10.

QUESTION 10
What are four primary drivers of suicidality? To select and enter your answer go to Test.