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Firearm Safety Counseling
From the Suicide and Trauma Reduction Initiative for Veterans (STRIVE) YouTube channel, Dr. Craig Bryan demonstrates the firearm safety counseling approach used in brief cognitive behavioral therapy for suicide prevention (BCBT) with an at-risk patient. This approach is influenced by the core principles of motivational interviewing, and involves four general phases: Engaging, Focusing, Evoking, and…
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Restricting Access to Lethal Means on College and University Campuses
Steps to assess and implement the restriction of means for suicide on higher education campuses.
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Lock to Live
A free tool designed to help you make decisions about temporarily reducing access to potentially dangerous things, like firearms, medicines, sharp objects, or other household items.
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Lethal Means Safety & Suicide Prevention
Provided by the Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center health district, this site offers extensive information on means safety. The site contains information on a patient-centered counseling technique called Lethal Means Safety Counseling (LMSC). It contains research on the topic of means safety, along with recommendations and additional resources.
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Counseling on Access to Lethal Means (CALM) Training
This training is about how to reduce access to the methods people use to die by suicide. It covers who needs lethal means counseling and how to work with people at risk for suicide, and their families, to reduce access.
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Suicide in Parking Facilities: Prevention, Response, and Recovery (International Parking Institute, 2016)
This report from the International Parking Institute outlines strategies that parking organizations can use to prevent deaths by suicide from their parking garages. The report’s first suggestion for prevention is the use of physical barriers. Other suggestions include the use of “Geofencing” via closed-circuit cameras or perimeter landscaping or awnings to reduce the likelihood of…
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Firearms on College Campuses: Research Evidence and Policy Implications (Johns Hopkins, 2016)
Provided by the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research, part of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, this report looks at the connection between the carrying of firearms by civilians and mass shootings/violent crime and the issues that are unique to the safety of the public on higher education campuses.
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Suicide Prevention on Bridges: The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline Position (2017)
Initially created in 2008 and revised in 2017 to reflect new evidence, this report makes the case for using physical barriers on bridges for suicide prevention. The report outlines the benefits of using barriers as opposed to using phones connected directly to crisis lines or signs containing crisis line information. In short, the report concludes…
Reduce Access to Means
To effectively prevent suicide, it is important to reduce access to means that someone might use to end their life. Policies that allow students to safely store guns with campus security, secure windows and balconies on tall buildings, and lock up dangerous chemicals in labs and maintenance closets, as well as counseling students on means of safety when appropriate, are all strategies that help accomplish this goal.