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- Health & Fitness > Depression How to help a suicidal person
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Helping someone who is suicidal is never going to be an easy task and more often than not their threats are a cry for help. However we never know just how serious a cry for help can be which is why we need to treat any suicidal individuals with respect and assume the threat could be real. The goal of suicide first aid intervention is to keep the person at risk from suicide for a limited period of time. As an ASIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training) worker we call the agreements between a caregiver and a person at risk, a safeplan. Suicide first-aid and safeplanning ...
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Cheryl Macdonald
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Member since: May 2007
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