Suicide Student Screening Information
“It has saved my life
more than once.”
The Stanley-Brown Safety Planning Intervention is a brief, collaborative intervention between the clinician and the suicidal individual that aims to mitigate acute risk.
The purpose of the Safety Planning Intervention is to provide people who have experienced a suicidal crisis with a specific set of coping strategies and resources to use in order to decrease the risk of suicidal behavior.
The Safety Planning Intervention is more than completing the Safety Plan form and actually consists of the following tasks posted on the right hand side:
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Step 1 Recognize warning signs of an impending suicidal crisis.One of the most effective ways of averting a suicidal crisis is to address the problem before it fully emerges. These warning signs include personal situations, thoughts, moods, or behaviors and serve as a reminder to retrieve and follow the Safety Plan. |
Step 2 Employ internal coping strategies.In this step, patients are asked to identify what they can do, without the assistance of another person, should they become suicidal again. Such activities function as a way for patients to distract themselves from the crisis and allow time for the suicidal thoughts to subside. |
Step 3 Utilize social contacts as a means of distraction from suicidal thoughts.Patients can utilize socialization strategies of two types: socializing with other people in their natural social environment or healthy social settings that may help to distract themselves from their suicidal thoughts. |