Assignment: Crisis Response Portfolio
Part 3: Suicide
As you continue to build your Crisis Response Portfolio, remember that interventions, treatment, and support can prevent suicides and suicide attempts.
For Part 3 of your Crisis Response Portfolio, you will create a section for suicide prevention. This section will contain risk factors, suicide assessment questions, safety plans for clients, and state regulations for commitment procedures as they relate to victims of crisis.
To Prepare:
Create a section in your Crisis Response Portfolio called "Suicide".
Review the Learning Resources and consider risk factors for suicidal clients.
Review the Learning Resources and consider questions to guide a suicide assessment.
Review the media programs Facilitative Response Activity and How to Accurately Assess and Help a Client and consider how you might create a safety plan for a client.
Review your State commitment laws and procedures and consider the information you might need to include in your portfolio for victims of a crisis (See the example State of Virginia example provided in the Learning Resources)
In your section called "Suicide" of your Crisis Response Portfolio, include
The risk factors as they relate to victims of a crisis
Suicide assessment questions related to victims of a crisis
A Safety plan related to victims of a crisis
Your state commitment procedures as they relate to victims of a crisis
Local and national resources for suicidal clients
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also Include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.
Required Resources
Readings
James, R. K., & Gilliland, B. E. (2017). Crisis intervention strategies (8th ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning.
Chapter 8, "Crisis of Lethality"
Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. (Nov 2016). Outcomes from eye movement desensitization and reprocessing in active-duty service members with posttraumatic stress disorder, Vol 8(6).
Note: You will access this article from the Walden Library databases.
Virginia Department of Behavioral Health & Developmental Services. (2018).
Document: Facility Response Activity Transcript (PDF)
Required Media
Laureate Education (Producer). (2018a). Facilitative response activity [Video file]. Baltimore, MD: Author.
Note: This media is a self-paced interactive piece.
Laureate Education (Producer). (2018b). How to accurately assess and help a client [Video file]. Baltimore, MD: Author.
Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 37 minutes.
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Laureate Education (Producer). (2018c). Suicide assessment and safety planning [Video file]. Baltimore, MD: Author.
Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 16 minutes.
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Optional Resources
American Association of Suicidology. (2018).
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
May, A. M., & Klonsky, E. D. (2016). What distinguishes suicide attempters from suicide ideators? A meta-analysis of potential factors. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 23(1), 5-20. doi:10.1111/cpsp.12136
Shallcross, L. (2010). Confronting the threat of suicide. Counseling Today.
Sommers-Flanagan, J., & Shaw, S. L. (2017). Suicide risk assessment: What psychologists should know. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 48(2), 98-106. doi:10.1037/pro0000106
Attachment:- Crisis-Response-Portfolio-Template.rar