Crisis Counseling Intervention

Instructions

Application Assignment #2: Suicide Risk Assessment Analysis

Adequate assessment is an absolute necessity in effective crisis intervention. In the rapidly changing scene of an active crisis, assessment can be difficult, puzzling, and frustrating for beginners. Making a valid assessment during an ongoing crisis is perhaps more an art than a science and comes with practice, making mistakes, obtaining feedback, and plunging in again.

In this application assignment, you will explore various suicide risk assessments and select the appropriate assessment for the assigned case study.

For this application assignment, view the suicide assessment role play, be following this link

. Consider the various suicide risk assessments provided in chapters 3 and 8. What would be the most appropriate assessment to utilize with a suicidal client.