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Suicide Assessment, how do professionals know? 
One way that suicidality is assessed is through standardized assessment tools. One such assessment tool is the Beck suicide scale. The Beck suicide scale is used to assess mood and suicidality and it is among the most widely used tests (Reinecke & Franklin-Scott, 2005). Clients assessed with this scale answer specific questions designed to calculate a number that puts them in a risk category. The results can be used by counselors and clients as a starting point when discussing a client’s suicidality and provide documentation of the initial assessment that is recognized by many other professionals.

Reinecke, M.A. & Franklin-Scott, R.L. (2005). Assessment of suicide: Beck scales for assessing mood and suicidality. In Yufit, R. I. &Lester, D. (Eds.) Assessment, treatment, and prevention of suicide behavior. (pp. 29-61). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley & Sons Inc. 


Suicide Prevention: Prevention Effectiveness and Evaluation (pdf) 


A 32-page guide from SPAN USA, the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, and Education Development Center, Inc.

Suicide Prevention: The Public Health Approach (pdf) 


A 3-page document from Suicide Prevention Resource Center


This organization is committed to promoting awareness that suicide is a preventable, public health problem.  They offer a group called Survivors of Suicide for friends and families that have lost a loved one.  
Great Rivers 2-1-1 

Provides free, confidential community information, referrals and crisis line services 24 hours/day. 

Works to reduce the number of suicides that take place in Wisconsin each year by increasing public awareness of suicide and mental illness. 
This is a non-profit organization dedicated to understanding and preventing suicide through research, education and advocacy.  They reach out to people with mental disorders and suicide survivors.  

This website aims to help those who have lost a loved one to suicide by resolving grief and pain in their own personal way.