The Inventory of Suicide Orientation-30 (ISO-30) assessment provides an overall suicide risk classification based on measurements of hopelessness and suicide ideation.
How to Use This Test
Appropriate for use by psychologists in outpatient and inpatient mental health facilities. The ISO-30 assessment can help:
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Identify adolescents at risk for attempting suicide
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Facilitating objective communication with the family, other counselling professionals
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Measure abatement of suicidal symptoms after an adolescent has been hospitalised
Key Features
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The test's brevity helps minimise test-taking resistance.
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Results help alert psychologists and counsellors to the early signs of an adolescent's suicidal tendencies, providing the opportunity for earlier intervention.
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The test's adolescent normative base allows for more relevant comparisons than tests with norms that include adults
Scales
Helps measure a broadly-defined construct of hopelessness using the total score from the 30 items. Suicide ideation is assessed by 6 critical items within those 30 items. The total score and the critical item score help determine overall suicide risk classification (high, moderate, low).