Breaking Down Mental Health (Season 2) - Episode 2 Suicide Within Depression

Featured guest: Cheryl King, Ph.D.

Disclosures: Cheryl King, Ph.D. has disclosed a relevant financial relationship with:  Adaptive Testing Technologies - Intellectual Property/Royalties, Conflict is relevant but is managed. This relationship is relevant, this company does work in the topic area. This relationship was managed by peer review and is free of commercial bias.

Objectives

• Differentiate the importance of assessing for suicidality and depression separately.

• Understand misconceptions about depression and suicide.
• Apply lethal means reduction strategies.

Resources

• Adaptive testing technologies (The CASSY) (Adaptive Testing Technologies) 
• Risk factors, protective factors, and warning signs (American Foundation for Suicide Prevention)
• Turning a psychiatric crisis into a chance to prevent firearm injury
• Parents’ Guide to Home Firearm Safety (Injury Prevention Center) 
• Prospective development and validation of the computerized adaptive screen for suicidal youth (JAMA)
• Ask Suicide-Screening Questions (ASQ) Toolkit (National Institute of Mental Health) 
• Adolescent suicide risk screening: a secondary analysis of the SHIELD randomized clinical trial (Journal of Pediatrics)

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