Brief Intervention for Suicide Risk Reduction in High Risk Adolescents

The ASAP (As Safe As Possible) treatment is a brief, intensive intervention initiated during inpatient care and transitioning to outpatient care. The intervention focuses on 1) using motivational interviewing (MI) strategies throughout care; 2) developing a safety plan, including adapting the plan to an interactive safety plan phone app, Brite); and 3) using treatment modules to target specific risk factors that are selected based on individual need.

Brite is a HIPAA-compliant mobile application designed to provide the participants with emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills, social support, and convenient access to safety plan resources via the patients' phone.

Participants received usual treatment for suicidal adolescents as they transition from inpatient hospitalization to outpatient therapy, which included a paper safety plan.