• Crisis Form

  • This Rating Scale will help to establish the risk of suicide of an individual. Ask the individual consider the past month as a whole when answering.

  • 1. Wish to be Dead:

    Person endorses thoughts about a wish to be dead or not alive anymore, or wish to fall asleep and not wake up. 

  • Have you wished you were dead or wished you could go to sleep and not wake up?*
  • 2. Non-Specific Active Suicidal Thoughts:

    General non-specific thoughts of wanting to end one's life/die by suicide without general thoughts of method, intent, or plan.  

  • Have you had any thoughts of killing yourself?*
  • 3. Active Suicidal Ideation with Any Methods/Means (Not Plan) without Intent to Act:

    Person endorses thoughts of suicide and has thought of at least one method. 

    EX: "I thought about taking an overdose but I never made a specific plan as to when, where or how I would actualy do it....and I would never go through with it."

  • Have you been thinking about (how) you might do this?*
  • Do you have access to the methods/means?*
  • 4. Active Suicidal Ideation with Some Intent to Act, without Specific Plan:

    Active suicidal thoughts of killing oneself and reports having some intent to act on such thoughts. 

    EX: "I have the thoughts but I definitely will not do anything about them." 

  • Have you had these thoughts and had some intention of acting on them?*
  • 5. Active Suicidal Ideation with Specific Plan and Intent:

    Thoughts of killing oneself with details of plan fully or partially worked out and person has some intent to carry it out.

  • Have you started to work out or worked out the details of how to kill yourself?*
  • Do you intend to carry out this plan?*
  • 6. Preparatory Acts or Behavior:

    Examples: Collected pills, obtained a gun, gave away valuables, wrote a will or suicide note, took out pills but didn’t swallow any, held a gun but changed your mind or it was grabbed from your hand, went to the roof but didn’t jump; or actually took pills, tried to shoot yourself, cut yourself, tried to hang yourself, etc.

  • Have you done anything, started to do anything, or prepared to do anything to end your life? (Over their entire lifetime)*
  • Was this within the past 3 months?*
  • Crisis Information

  • Who made contact?*
  • Format: (000) 000-0000.
  • Date of Contact*
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