The coping long term with active suicide program: Description and pilot data
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A description of and pilot data for a new adjunctive intervention designed to reduce suicidal behavior among high‐risk individuals are presented. The Coping Long Term with Active Suicide Program (CLASP) has three major components: (1) three individual, in‐person meetings, (2) one significant other/family meeting, and (3) 11 brief (15–30 minute) phone contacts with the patient and his/her significant other. Open trial and pilot randomized trial data provide preliminary evidence that CLASP is a feasible, acceptable, and efficacious intervention to reduce suicidal behavior.
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In a pilot randomized trial of CLASP vs. an enhanced assessment and follow-up control condition among patients who had been hospitalized for acute suicide risk, CLASP was associated with 44% fewer suicide attempts than control in the follow-up period.
“In a pilot randomized trial of CLASP vs. an enhanced assessment and follow-up control condition among patients who had been hospitalized for acute suicide risk, CLASP was associated with 44% fewer suicide attempts than control in the follow-up period (Miller et al., 2016).”
From An Open-Phase Pilot Trial of an Integration of Prolonged Exposure Therapy and the Coping Long-Term With Active Suicide Program (2026) · cites this paper as Miller et al., 2016
The Coping Long Term with Active Suicide Program has been shown to have significant aggregate effects on suicide-related behaviors after psychiatric hospital discharge.
“We are in the process of piloting a promising program of this sort known as the Coping Long Term with Active Suicide Program, a telephone-based adjunctive intensive case management program that has been shown to have significant aggregate effects on suicide-related behaviors (SRBs) after psychiatric hospital discharge (9, 18, 19).”
From Using Administrative Data to Predict Suicide After Psychiatric Hospitalization in the Veterans Health Administration System (2020) · cites this paper as [9]
Intensive postdischarge case management programs have been shown elsewhere to be effective in reducing suicides after psychiatric hospital discharge.
“Intensive postdischarge case management programs, which are not used in VHA, have been shown elsewhere to be effective in reducing suicides after psychiatric hospital discharge (9–16), leading to recommendations to add such programs to existing postdischarge suicide preventive interventions (17).”
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Intensive postdischarge case management programs, which are not used in VHA, have been shown elsewhere to be effective in reducing suicides after psychiatric hospital discharge.
“intensive postdischarge case management programs, which are not used in VHA, have been shown elsewhere to be effective in reducing suicides after psychiatric hospital discharge (9–16)”
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- Authors
- Miller, I. W., Gaudiano, B. A., & Weinstock, L. M.
- Affiliations
- Brown University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Miller, Ivan W.
- Venue
- Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2016-04-02
- Volume
- 46
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 752-761
- ISSN
- 0363-0234 (ISSN-L)
- 1943-278X
- PMC
- PMC5047846
- OpenAlex
- W2313823647
- Cited by
- 44
- References
- 21
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 1
- FWCI
- 4.46
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (R34 MH073625)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychiatric care and mental health services
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Keywords
- suicide prevention, adjunctive intervention, high-risk individuals, suicidal behavior, family involvement, telephone contact, significant others, feasibility and acceptability
- MeSH terms
- Suicide Prevention, Adaptation, Psychological, Adult, Female, Humans, Male, Pilot Projects, Psychological Techniques, Suicide, Program Evaluation, Suicidal Ideation
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