W8: Risk Assessment & Management

Question 1

How to formulate risk

Answer 1

1. Risk status: person’s risk relative to a specified subpopulation
2. Risk state: person’s risk compared to baseline or other specified time points
3. Available resources: from which they can draw in crisis
4. Foreseeable changes: that could exacerbate risk

Question 2

Risk status details

Answer 2

• Higher or lower than the general population?
• Higher or lower than others in practice setting?
• Higher or lower than inpatient setting?

Question 3

Risk state details

Answer 3

• Higher than their baseline?
• Higher than a selected time period (their worst point)
• Goal to gauge the intervention necessary to decrease immediate risk

Question 4

What is SLAP?

Answer 4

1. Suicidality
2. Lethality
   - Passive: I don’t want to wake up
   - Active: I want to drive my car off a cliff
3. Access
4. Plan