About The goal of this project is to design, implement, and evaluate a new approach to suicide care: the Suicide Care Team at University of Washington. This team will respond immediately to referrals of acutely suicidal patients from across the health system and offer
About United States veteran suicide rates remain elevated over their civilian counterparts. Suicide rates among US veterans indicating homelessness are 186.5% higher than veterans without any indications of homelessness. Brief Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Suicide Prevention (BCBT) is one intervention demonstrated to reduce suicidal
About This project will identify interaction patterns with online video platforms that are indicative of suicide risk, focusing on YouTube and TikTok. Leveraging archival data including over 5 million interaction events collected from participants in previous research, we will use combinations of neural language
About Improved financial literacy among people living with serious mental illness (SMI) is associated with a higher quality of life, fewer hospitalizations, and better treatment adherence. Yet people living with SMI frequently express how their lack of financial knowledge has negative personal consequences and
About Adapted from standard dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), DBT-ACES (Accepting the Challenges of Employment and Self-Sufficiency) is an expansion and adaptation of standard DBT featuring a second year of treatment designed for DBT graduates who want to increase self-sufficiency and maintain living wage employment.
About The Functional Occupational Rehabilitation for Troops (FORT) study simultaneously evaluates the outcomes of functional restoration (to improve service member pain and functional capacity) and implementation facilitation (to successfully stand up functional restoration programs) through a hybrid type 2 stepped-wedge trial. Clinical Arm of
About The goal of the Caring Contacts intervention is to be an accessible, consistent, strength based, and scalable model of care in both clinics and service organizations. The irreversible, accelerated shift to telehealth and technology-mediated communication during COVID-19 has expanded demand for Caring Contacts as
About Based on Motto’s original Caring Contacts, but using 21st-century technology, Comtois and colleagues conducted a randomized controlled trial of a Caring Contacts via text message intervention with active duty Soldiers and Marines at risk for suicide. The researchers wanted to know if Caring
About The Aftercare Focus Study is a randomized clinical trial of standard care Next Day Appointments (NDAs) alone vs. standard care NDAs using the Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality (CAMS) framework. Pilot data for inpatients recruited at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle showed
About Despite efforts by the U.S. Department of Defense to train behavioral health (BH) providers in evidence-based psychotherapies (EBPs) for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), numerous barriers limit EBP implementation. TACTICS, a context-tailored implementation approach, was tested to improve the implementation of prolonged exposure therapy
The Center for Suicide Prevention and Recovery (CSPAR) is a part of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington.
