An exposure‑based implementation strategy to decrease clinician anxiety about implementing suicide prevention evidence‑based practices: Protocol for development and pilot testing (Project CALMER)

Background: Clinicians often report that their own anxiety and low self-efficacy inhibit their use of evidence-based suicide prevention practices, including gold-standard screening and brief interventions. Exposure therapy to reduce clinician maladaptive anxiety and bolster self-efficacy use is a compelling but untested approach to improving the implementation of suicide prevention evidence-based practices (EBPs). This project brings together […]

Reduction in suicidal ideation from prolonged exposure therapy for adolescents

Objective: Adolescents with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are at higher risk for suicide compared to adolescents without PTSD. This study aimed to explore whether PTSD treatment reduces suicidal ideation in adolescents and whether the degree of reduction in PTSD was associated with reduction in suicidal ideation. Methods: Adolescent females with PTSD from a sexual assault […]