SAFE-T Assessment & Suicide Inquiry

Question 1

What are the 5 things that you are doing when giving a SAFE-T test?

Answer 1

Identifying Risk Factors
Identifying Protective Factors
Give A Suicide Inquiry
Determine the Risk Level / Intervention
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Question 2

What are the risk factors to look out for when performing a SAFE-T assessment?

Answer 2

Suicidal Behavior
Current / Past Psychiatric Disorders
Key Symptoms
Family History
Stressors
Change in treatment
Access to firearms

Question 3

What are the protective factors to look out for when performing a SAFE-T assessment?

Answer 3

Internal (The ability to cope with stress, religious beliefs, frustration tolerance)

External (Responsibilities for other people, relationships, and pets)

Question 4

What would you question about during a Suicide Inquiry?

Answer 4

Ideation.
Frequency, intensity, duration (In last 48 hrs, past month, worst ever).

If they have a Plan.

Behaviors.
Past attempts, aborted attempts, rehearsals (tying noose, loading gun), non-suicidal self-injurious actions.

Intent.
The extent that the PT expects to carry out the plan + believes the plan/act will be lethal vs. self-injurious.

Question 5

What does SAFE-T stand for?

Answer 5

Suicide Assessment Five-step Evaluation and Triage

Question 6

Name the key symptoms of depression?

Answer 6

Anhedonia (Inability to feel pleasure), impulsivity, hopelessness, anxiety/panic, global insomnia, command hallucinations (auditory hallucinations that command a person to do something), bowel changes