Cognitive behavioral therapy for suicide prevention (CBT‐SP): Implications for meeting standard of care expectations with suicidal patients
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Accumulating evidence supports the efficacy of cognitive behavioral therapy for suicide prevention (CBT-SP) as an empirically supported treatment approach for suicidal patients. In light of these findings, several procedures pulled from CBT-SP have been recommended for standard care with suicidal patients. The present article provides an overview of the procedures used in CBT-SP and discusses how these procedures meet, or even exceed, standard of care expectations for outpatient mental healthcare clinicians. Finally, the relevance of clinician fidelity to the CBT-SP model when evaluating standard of care expectations is discussed.
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CBT-SP may indirectly address psychological pain through increased distress tolerance and cognitive flexibility.
“Although not designed exclusively for psychological pain, CBT-SP may indirectly address it through increased distress tolerance and cognitive flexibility.”
From Targeting Psychological Pain After a Suicide Attempt: Scoping Review and Intervention Protocol (2026) · cites this paper as [45]
Routine assessment of psychological pain has not yet been integrated into standard clinical practice.
“routine assessment of psychological pain has not yet been integrated into standard clinical practice [35,36].”
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Targeting Psychological Pain After a Suicide Attempt: Scoping Review and Intervention Protocol
Comendador, L., Palao, D. J., Sanz, A., Andreo-Jover, J., Baca-García, E., Barrigón, M. L., Bobes-Bascarán, M. T., Botí, M. Á., Diaz-Marsá, M., Elices, M., et al. (2026) · Journal of Clinical Medicine · doi:10.3390/jcm15083124 · Cited by 2 · see citing works
“Despite this evidence and its potential utility for clinical risk detection and its role as a potential therapeutic target, routine assessment of psychological pain has not yet been integrated into standard clinical practice [35,36].”
- Authors
- Bryan, C. J.
- Affiliations
- University of Utah (US)
- Corresponding author
- Bryan, Craig J.
- ORCID
- Bryan, Craig J.
- Venue
- Behavioral Sciences & the Law
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2019-05
- Volume
- 37
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 247-258
- ISSN
- 0735-3936 (ISSN-L)
- 1099-0798
- OpenAlex
- W2945092273
- Cited by
- 46
- References
- 15
- Citations by year
- 2026: 5 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 10 · 2020: 2
- FWCI
- 5.84
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Behavioral Sciences & the Law (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Keywords
- suicide prevention, suicidal patients, standard of care, outpatient psychiatric care, empirically supported treatments
- MeSH terms
- Emotional Adjustment, Suicide Prevention, Crisis Intervention, Humans, Motivation, Outpatients, Patient Care Planning, Self Care, Social Support, Suicide, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Treatment Outcome, Risk Assessment, Suicidal Ideation, Standard of Care
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