AMSR for Outpatient Settings

NINE MODULES

• Manage your own emotional reactions to suicide and reduce practitioner fear 

• Develop a shared perspective and build rapport with your clients

• Define basic terms related to suicide risk

• Describe the phenomenology of suicide

• Demonstrate an understanding of warning signs, precipitating factors, risk and protective factors

SEVEN MODULES

• Integrate a risk assessment for suicide risk early in a clinical interview and continue to collect assessment information on an ongoing basis

• Elicit risk and protective factors

• Elicit suicidal ideation, intent, plans, and related behavior

• Look for other signs of suicide risk including asking others in your client's day to day life

• Obtain records and information from providers and support persons as appropriate

TEN MODULES

• Using a risk formulation to make a collaborative decision regarding recovery-oriented treatment planning

• Identifying risk status and risk state in your clients

• Identifying available resources for your client’s treatment plan

• Identifying potential triggers for your clients such as relapse or conflict in close relationships

FIFTEEN MODULES

• Collaboratively develop an emergency plan that assures safety and conveys the message that the patient’s safety is not negotiable

• Develop a written treatment and services plan that addresses the client’s immediate, acute, and continuing suicidal ideation and risk for suicidal behavior

• Coordinate and work collaboratively with other treatment and service providers in an interdisciplinary team approach

• Develop policies and procedures for following clients closely, including taking reasonable steps to be proactive