500 Series Flashcards
What is the immediate action drill for suicide prevention?
ACE: Ask, Care, Escort
Define protective factors
the skills, strengths, and resources that help people deal with stressful events. Factors that build resilience and counterbalance risk factors
Define risk factors
Individual characteristics, circumstances, history, or experiences that raise the risk of suicide
Define and describe warning signs
Noticeable and significant changes in behavior: Change in sleeping, eating, hygiene or mood. Increased isolation, drug or increased alcohol use, talking or hinging of suicide, finalizing personal affairs, increased financial, relationship or legal problems, sudden purchase of a gun or high quantities of medication.
Define Stigma
What is the key aspect of Care in ACE
Using active listening to listen and reassure
What do you do when an individual with prior risk factors shows warning signs
Activate the immediate action drill of ACE. Ask, Care, Escort
What is the one thing you never due during the ACE drill
Never leave an individual alone, escort them to the appropriate providers
What are some considerations for reducing stigma?
get help for yourself if needed, set the example, do not allow bullying, harassment, ostracization.
What are some available resources
911, Military police, Army resilience suicide program website, military crisis hotline, chain of command, Chaplin
What is Risk Management
The process to identify, access, and control risks to that allow decisions to be made that balance the risk cost with the mission benefits
how many steps are in the risk management process?
5
Step 1 of risk management is
ID the hazzard
Step 2 of risk management is
Assess the hazzard
Step 3 of risk management is
develop controls and make risk decisions
Step 4 of risk management
Implement controls
Step 5 of risk management
supervise and evaluate
what are the catagories of controls
Educational controls, Physical Controls, Hazzard elimination controls
Providing annal drown proofing training in support of airborne operations is an example of what type of control
Educational control
PPE, engineering, and administrative factors are all part of what?
Hazzard elimination controls
Placing signs indicting that the weapons cleaning solution is hazardous to the eyes is an example of what?
Physical controls
Establishing unit SOPs that require all individuals to were flotation devices during airborne operations in the vicinity of water is an example of what
Hazzard elimination controls
Private Smith’s mother was a victim of suicide and family history included a troubled household with previous experiences of abuse indicates the presence of what?
Risk factors
What is compared during the 2nd step of risk management
During step two of assessing the hazard, probability and severity are analyzed
How many principles of risk management are there?
Four IDUA
The first principle of RM is?
Integrate RM in all mission and operational phases (IDUA)