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  • Consumer Triage Form

    South Central Crisis Service
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  • History of Present Illness

  • Medical History

  • Substance Use History

  • Social History

  • Mental Status







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  • Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale

    Screening Version - Recent

  • Ask questions that are bold and underlined.

    Ask Questions 1 & 2.

    1) Wish to be Dead:

    Person endorses thoughts about a wish to be dead or not alive anymore, or wish to fall asleep and not wake up.

  • 2) Suicidal Thoughts 

    General non-specific thoughts of wanting to end one's life/die by suicide, "I've thought about killing myself" without general thoughts of ways to kill onself/associated methods, intent, or plan.

  • If YES, to question 2, ask questions 3, 4, 5, and 6.  If NO, to questions 2, go directly to question 6.

  • 3) Suicidal Thoughts with Method (Without Specific Plan or Intent to Act):

    Person endorses thoughts of suicide and has thought of at least one method during the assessment period.  This is different than a specific plan with time, place, or method details worked out.  "I thought about taking an overdose, but I never made a specific plan as to when where, or how I would actually do it...and I would never go through with it."

  • 4) Suicidal Intent (Without Specific Plan):

    Active suicidal thoughts of killing oneself and patient reports having some intent to act on such thoughts, as opposed to "I have the thoughts, but I definitely will not do anything about them."

  • 5) Suicide Intent with Specific Plan:

    Thoughts of killing oneself with details of plan fully or partially worked out and person has some intent to carry it out.

  • 6) Suicide Behavior

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