Assessing paraprofessional competence with the Suicide Intervention Response Inventory.

Neimeyer, Robert A.; Maclnnes, William D.

doi:10.1037//0022-0167.28.2.206

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“…Thus, scores can range from 0 ( exact agreement with experts ) to 124 ( maximum possible disagreement with experts ). The original SIRI is internally consistent (as 5 .83 and .84 ; Cotton & Range, 1992 ;Neimeyer & MacInnes, 1981 ), and reliable over 3 months ( r 5 .86 ; Neimeyer & MacInnes, 1981 ). The SIRI-2 is also highly internally consistent (as 5 .90 and .93 ) and reliable over time ( r 5 .92 ; Neimeyer & Bonnelle, 1997 ).…”

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“…). Unlike the forced-choice responses of the original Suicide Intervention Response Inventory ( SIRI ; Neimeyer & MacInnes, 1981 ), the SIRI-2 allows responses on a 7-point Likert scale ranging from 1 3 ( highly appropriate ) through 0 ( neither appropriate nor inappropriate ) to 2 3 ( highly inappropriate ). Responses are matched against an expert panel's mean responses to the items, so that lower scores indicate better response skills.…”

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“…The SIRI-2 is also highly internally consistent (as 5 .90 and .93 ) and reliable over time ( r 5 .92 ; Neimeyer & Bonnelle, 1997 ). Evidence of validity is that the original SIRI discriminates among groups of trained crisis counselors and untrained college students ( Cotton & Range, 1992 ;Neimeyer & MacInnes, 1981 ). The original SIRI also has moderate convergent validity as evidenced by moderate to strong correlations ( r 5 .58, .60, .66 at di¡erent times ) with the Counseling Skills Evaluation ( Wolf & Wolf, 1974 ), a validated test of counseling abilities.…”

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“…For example, a course in medical interviewing produces improvements for medical students in knowing how to respond to a suicidal phone call ( Neimeyer & Diamond, 1983 ). Also, three weeks of training produces the same kind of improvements in crisis workers ( Neimeyer & MacInnes, 1981 ). Even brief in-service training modules produce improvements for school sta¡ in knowing how to respond to a suicidal student ( Davidson & Range, 1999 ;Klingman, 1990 ), and mental health paraprofessionals in knowing how to respond to a suicidal phone call ( Cotton & Range, 1992 ).…”

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Is Training in Psychology Associated With Increased Responsiveness to Suicidality?

Richards¹,

Range²

2001

Death Studies

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Training is associated with improved responses to suicidal individuals, but it is not clear whether any training helps or whether the training needs to be in psychology. The authors compared beginning and advanced psychology graduate students and practicing psychologists to nursing graduate students. A total of 139 participants in these 4 groups read a vignette about Pat, who had either contemplated suicide or never contemplated suicide, then completed questions about how they would respond to a distressed telephone call from Pat, how suicidal they thought Pat was, and how good a no-suicide contract would be for Pat. Advanced students and psychologists were more helpful in their responses than beginning graduate students, who were more helpful than nursing graduate students. However, all participants noticed whether Pat had contemplated suicide, and all were faintly positive about no-suicide contracts.

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2001

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“…The SIRI is a self-administered test that assesses the respondent's ability to select an appropriate response to a series of clinical scenarios in which the patient presents with potential self-harm (Neimeyer & MacInnes, 1981;Neimeyer & Pfieffer, 1994a). Research on the SIRI has documented its good psychometric properties, freedom from social desirability effects, and responsiveness to training in suicide prevention (Cotton & Range, 1992;Neimeyer & Bonnelle, 1997;Neimeyer & Diamond, 1983;Neimeyer, Fortner, & Melby, 2001;Neimeyer & MacInness, 1981;Neimeyer & Neimeyer, 1984).…”

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Suicide Intervention Skills in Health Professionals: A Multidisciplinary Comparison

Palmieri

Forghieri

Ferrari

et al. 2008

Archives of Suicide Research

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Training in the recognition and management of suicidal risk is of crucial importance for prevention. The aim of our study was to compare competence in assessing and managing suicidal patients in different groups of Italian professionals. Two hundred and thirty two professionals (38 psychiatrists, 50 general practitioners, 34 psychiatric nurses, 60 doctors and nurses working in accident and emergency services, and 50 medical students) completed the Suicide Intervention Response Inventory (SIRI-2) (Neimeyer & Bonelle, 1997) and a questionnaire on perceptions of risk and protective factors in suicidal patients. Exposure to suicidal patients was found to be widespread in all groups, but specific training in suicide assessment and intervention was conspicuously rare. Psychiatrists outscored all other groups and psychiatric nurses scored significantly higher than general practitioners in identifying appropriate responses to suicidal patients. Taken together, our findings suggest the necessity of further training in suicide intervention for Italian health professionals, and especially for emergency service personnel and general practitioners.

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The Impact of Gatekeeper Training for Suicide Prevention on University Resident Assistants

Taub¹,

Servaty‐Seib²,

Miles³

et al. 2013

J of College Counseling

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Resident assistants (RAs) can serve as important suicide prevention gatekeepers. The purpose of the study was to determine if training improved RAs’ crisis communications skills and suicide‐related knowledge and to determine if the knowledge elements predicted crisis communications skills. New RAs showed significant improvement in all areas from pretest to posttest, whereas returning RAs showed no significant increase in any of the areas. None of the knowledge areas predicted communications skills for either group.

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Assessing paraprofessional competence with the Suicide Intervention Response Inventory.

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Is Training in Psychology Associated With Increased Responsiveness to Suicidality?

Is Training in Psychology Associated With Increased Responsiveness to Suicidality?

Suicide Intervention Skills in Health Professionals: A Multidisciplinary Comparison

The Impact of Gatekeeper Training for Suicide Prevention on University Resident Assistants

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