safety plans
Protocols for danger
Safety plans are strategies prepared in advance to help someone navigate a crisis, especially one involving self-harm, suicide, or domestic violence.
A safety plan typically identifies warning signs, coping strategies, people to contact, and ways to make the environment safer.
Mental health professionals often develop safety plans collaboratively with at-risk patients: Her therapist helped her create a safety plan before she left the hospital.
- crisisDecisive dangerous moment
- emergencySerious sudden danger
- emergency contactPerson called during crisis
- interventionPurposeful involvement to change course
- suicideVoluntary death by oneself
prevention · hotline · coping · coping skills · triggers · warning signs · red flags · support · lifeline · reach out · resources · check in · contacts · hospital · therapist · escape · protocol · backup
- fire safetyfire alarms, fire drill, fire extinguishers, smoke detectors, fire drills
- workplace safetyPPE, goggles, trip hazard, slip hazard, masks
- child welfarechild protection, child welfare, foster care, child services, foster home
- school safetylockdown, lockdown drill, fire drill, school shootings, tornado drill
- domestic abusedomestic violence, battering, batterer, spousal abuse, wife beating
- contractsbinding contracts, contract length, lease, clause, contract terms
safety plansdamage control
Limiting further harm
crisis response · emergency response · crisis management · disaster recovery · corrective actions
safety plansunpreparedness
Lacking readiness beforehand
chaos · disorganization · negligence · recklessness · improvisation
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