Patients with BPD may engage in suicidal and non-suicidal self-harming behavior.
Self-harming behavior is a maladaptive coping skill for emotional distress that serves different functions for different patients.
How do you support a patient with self-harming behaviors? Read More »
A safety plan helps patients, clinicians, and ideally a support person, think together about the symptoms of a future suicidal crisis and write down coping strategies with increasing levels of external support as a roadmap to survival.
How do you make a safety plan with a patient who has suicidal thoughts? Read More »
Talking with patients about suicidal thoughts and behaviors is a crucial clinical skill. It can also be a therapeutic intervention, popping the bubble of isolation so often associated with suicidal thoughts.
How do you talk with patients about suicidal thoughts and behaviors? Read More »
Suicide risk assessment tools are widely used and mandated in some systems of care. They do not predict who will die by suicide well-enough to be useful in guiding clinical decision making and are explicitly cautioned against in other systems of care.
Can suicide risk assessments prevent your patients from dying by suicide? Read More »
