Guilford Press, the publisher of the CAMS book, Managing Suicidal Risk: a Collaborative Approach, 3rd Edition by Dr. David Jobes, owns the copyright to the Suicide Status Form. We have created a number of electronic versions of the SSF that can be used with electronic health records. Please contact us for more details and we ask that you do not create your own template.

 

Beyond merely assessing suicidal risk, CAMS is a proven clinical intervention that reliably and effectively treats service user-defined suicidal drivers leading to rapid reductions in suicidal ideation, overall symptom distress, depression, and hopelessness. In addition, there are promising data for decreasing suicide attempts and self-harm behaviours. These results are based on eight published clinical trials, six published randomised controlled trials (RCTs), and four RCTs currently in process.

Yes, the US Joint Commission (similar to NICE guidelines in the UK) issued a Sentinel Event Alert 56 Suicide in 2016, titled Detecting and Treating Suicidal Ideation in all Settings, which recommended CAMS for treatment planning to directly target suicidality. CAMS was identified as one of three “evidence-based clinical approaches that help to reduce suicidal thoughts and behaviours.” CAMS is listed in the Zero Suicide Toolkit as an evidence-based treatment.

In 2017, the CDC, America’s Health Protection Agency, released Preventing Suicide: A Technical Package of Policy, Programs, and Practices. CAMS was identified as a treatment for people at risk of suicide (page 37).

The CAMS book: Managing Suicidal Risk: A Collaborative Approach, the CAMS Online Video, CAMS Practical Role-Play Training and CAMS supervision calls.

Mental health providers who provide crisis prevention, work in inpatient areas, accident and emergency departments and intensive outpatient programs including liaison teams, resilience hubs, frontline therapists, psychologists, counsellors and emergency or crisis responders.

Yes. We offer both CAMS Trained and CAMS Accredited designation across the UK.

Research has shown that clinicians can become adherent in the use of CAMS with their first service user within four sessions.

No. For quality and effectiveness of the CAMS treatment, a Train-the-Trainer program is not authorised for the use of CAMS. CAMS-care UK is dedicated to adherence to the CAMS evidence-base. All CAMS-care UK trainers have worked extensively with Dr. Jobes and receive regular updates to apply the latest CAMS research to the training. It is not uncommon for the quality of training protocols to become less adherent when incorporated into a Train-the-Trainer training model. While this may be acceptable for some types of training, when dealing with the management and treatment of suicide risk it is not.

Yes, CAMS is an excellent evidence-based suicide-specific clinical intervention that can be well-suited for suicide prevention efforts.

Though the online video course provides an excellent introduction and overview to CAMS, the book is the primary source for detailed information and instruction regarding CAMS. Since access to the online course is limited to 60 days, the book is the perfect complement to the online course.

No, that would be a direct violation of the terms of use. The online course is intended to be an individual training experience not a group training experience.

Yes, detailed information about CAMS, including the use of the SSF and the CAMS therapeutic worksheet, research supporting the efficacy of CAMS, completed examples of the SSF, and recommendations for using CAMS with patients are all available in Managing Suicidal Risk: A Collaborative Approach. We recommend purchasing the book as a companion piece to taking the online course as we feel it is an excellent resource to support ongoing use of CAMS in your practice.

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There are two ways to have access to SSF copies. One way is through purchase and ownership of the Guilford Press book Managing Suicidal Risk: A Collaborative Approach 3rd Ed, which enables a provider to access a web-based version of the tool or to photocopy the document directly from the book as per the limited copyright permission that is afforded by owning the book. Alternatively, you may access the SSF through the CAMS-care UK online training course which permits a provider personal access to and use of the SSF.

The SSF has been translated into other languages. For more information, contact us.

The existing two-decade evidence base for CAMS comes from the written-hard-copy-use of the Suicide Status Form and our research shows that writing is different than typing. That said, there is an increased demand for an electronic version of the Suicide Status Form, particularly in these days of social distancing.

It should be noted that Guilford Press, the publisher of Managing Suicidal Risk, a Collaborative Approach, 3rd Edition, owns the copyright of the SSF. If you have purchased the book or the CAMS-care foundational video, you have a license to use the SSF. However, if you have a group of clinicians using the SSF and interfacing with an EMR, we strongly suggest that you contact CAMS-care so we can work with you and Guilford to obtain a license for the SSF. Please visit our contact us page.

We have a number of promising approaches for using eSSFs with electronic medical records. The first involves using a tablet and stylus that replicates the hard-copy experience using PowerPoint that captures handwriting into text as well as creating a PDF of the ‘written’ document. The PDF and text file of each session can then be uploaded to your Electronic Medical Record system. This approach was developed in conjunction with Microsoft and requires Windows 10 and Office 365.

The second approach is a fillable PDF that can be supplied with Guilford’s permission. Please visit our contact us page.

Any other attempt to make an electronic SSF template is not only a direct violation of copyright law, but such a misuse of the CAMS assessment and treatment materials is no longer backed by research or an evidence base. Until you have rigorously studied your inconsistent use of the CAMS framework, you cannot be certain it will be effective. The SSF should always be administered collaboratively between the provider and patient consistent with adherence to the evidence-based approach described in our training and the Guilford Press source book.

It is the goal of Guilford and CAMS-care to provide the SSF to as many clinicians as possible so that it can be used to save lives through effective care knowing that those clinicians have received sufficient training in the use of the form.

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No, we have many organisations that opt to complete foundational training in CAMS by having staff read the book, take the online course, and attend a series of supervision calls. We have also split our online role play training into half-day sessions to fit with the needs of organisations. Please complete our enquiry form and we will be happy to contact you to discuss the options available.