"This clinical manual offers essential tools and guidance for therapists of any orientation faced with the complex challenges of assessing and treating a suicidal patient. In a large, ready-to-photocopy format, the book provides step-by-step instructions and reproducible forms for evaluating suicidal risk, developing a suicide-specific outpatient treatment plan, and tracking clinical progress and outcomes using documentation that can help to reduce the risk of malpractice liability. In addition to providing a flexible structure for assessment and intervention, the Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality (CAMS) approach is designed to strengthen the therapeutic alliance and increase patient motivation. Highly readable and user friendly, the volume builds on 25 years of empirically oriented clinical research"-- Provided by publisher.

Revised edition of the author's Managing suicidal risk, 2006.

Collaborative assessment and management of suicidality : a suicide-specific clinical intervention within contemporary health care -- The SSF and the evolution of CAMS -- Systems of clinical care and optimizing the use of CAMS -- CAMS risk assessment : the collaborative use of the SSF -- CAMS treatment planning : coauthoring a suicide-specific treatment plan -- CAMS interim sessions : tracking suicide risk assessments and treatment plan updates -- CAMS clinical outcomes and disposition : lessons in living and a postsuicidal life -- CAMS as a means of decreasing malpractice liability -- CAMS adaptations and future developments.