The Suicide Risk Assessment Standards [PDF] provides three example prompt questions with rationale for incorporating all three into a call. This document includes a listing of the 4 core principles: Suicidal Desire, Suicidal Capability, Suicidal Intent and Buffers along with the subcomponents for each.

Co-Pilot

The online Co-Pilot provides example questions for eliciting content related to each subcomponent in the suicide risk assessment standards.Many centers have placed a link on the telephone workers desktop directly to the Co-Pilot so that they can access this resource as needed.

Suicide and Life Threatening Behavior (SLTB) Journal articles

The June 2007 edition of SLTB features 5 articles related to crisis hotlines. All of the articles can be accessed for free on the Guilford Press Website by clicking on each of the links below:

Comparing Models of Helper Behavior to Actual Practice in Telephone Crisis Intervention: A Silent Monitoring Study of Calls to the U.S. 1-800-SUICIDE Network Read more. [PDF]

Which Helper Behaviors and Intervention Styles are Related to Better Short Term Outcomes in Telephone Crisis Intervention? Results from a Silent Monitoring Study of Calls to the U.S. 1-800-SUICIDE Network. Read more. [PDF]

An Evaluation of Crisis Hotline Outcomes: Part 1: Non Suicidal Crisis Callers Read more. [PDF]

An Evaluation of Crisis Hotline Outcomes: Part 2: Suicidal Callers Read more. [PDF]

Establishing Standards for the Assessment of Suicide Risk Among Callers to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (please contact Gillian Murphy for requests of literature sited in this article) Read more. [PDF]