Assessing Suicide Risk

As a social worker, you will likely at some point have a client with a positive suicide risk assessment. Many individuals with suicidal ideation also have a plan, and that plan may be imminent. Even when the risk is not urgent at a given moment, current research shows that most suicides occur within 3 months of the risk being assessed within a formal appointment. Ideation can quickly become a suicide.

 

Explore an evidence-based tool about suicide risk assessment and safety planning.
Watch the “Suicide Assessment Interview” segment in the Sommers-Flanagan (2014) video to assess how it compares to your findings. (Clinical Interviewing: Intake, Assessment & Therapeutic Alliance | Kanopy Watch the “Suicide Assessment Interview” segment starting at 01:44:37. This is the interview with Tommi, which will be used for the Discussion.)
Research scholarly resources related to suicide and Native American populations.
BY DAY 3
Post a response in which you address the following:

Identify and discuss elements of Dr. Sommers-Flanagan’s suicide risk assessment.
Describe the elements of safety planning that you would put in place as Tommi’s social worker in the first week and in the first months.
Identify a suicide risk assessment tool you would use at future sessions to identify changes in her risk level. Explain why you would use this tool.
Explain any adjustments or enhancements that might be helpful given Tommi’s cultural background. Support your ideas with scholarly resources.

Sample Solution

deficiency, they do not have any problem with semantic processing (Shankweiler et al., 1995; Share & Stanovich, 1995, cited in Nation & Snowling, 1998b). However, not every poor reader only has difficulties with word recognition level. In another investigation Nation and Snowling (1998b) demonstrated that children with reading comprehension difficulties showed poor semantic processing abilities rather than typically developed children despite the both groups have closely matched phonological and non-verbal skills. In addition to though the poor comprehenders had good decoding skills, they showed greater difficulty with low frequency and exception words reading. A similar point was made by Bishop and Snowling (2004) in one study, they also showed that without any phonological impairment, many children struggle with comprehension and overall reading performance.
Such research outcomes on reading abilities establish the idea that only PA and decoding skills are not sufficient for becoming skilled reader. Moreover, broader language abilities are also important for successful reading performance.

Conclusion
Despite the ultimate goal of reading is successfully recognized the word and complete understanding the text, many early studies only focus on phonological skills. In few language based models of reading overlook the importance of semantic skill and other language skills in order to become skilled reading. However psycholinguistics model of reading and simple view of reading have emphasised that skilled reading also involved reading comprehension which largely rely on broader language skills or metalinguistic skills. In fact one similar point showed in both views is that for developing skilled reading phonological skills and comprehension equally important, but neither alone is sufficient for efficient reading.
Furthermore, research on reading comprehension and intervention

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