Key Messages

• Peer-reviewed research on specific recommendations for conducting suicide risk assessments with youth via eHealth is extremely limited. The limited available research was also primarily conducted with older, female-identified, white, presumably heterosexual youth.
• The majority of specific recommendations for conducting suicide risk assessment with youth via eHealth were found in grey literature documents from key school mental health/suicide prevention websites
• As school mental health professionals are in need of immediate guidance in the face of COVID-19, the specific recommendations detailed by grey literature sources represent the most promising practices for current implementation

Keywords

• COVID-19
• eHealth
• School mental health
• Scoping review
• Suicide risk assessment
• Youth

Author(s)

• Nominated Principal Applicant: Deinera Exner-Cortens, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, University of Calgary
• Deinera Exner-Cortens, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, University of Calgary
• Elizabeth Baker, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, University of Calgary
• Cristina Fernandez Conde, Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary*
• Shawna Gray, Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary*
• Rocio Ramirez Rivera, Faculty of Social Work, University of Calgary*
• Marisa Van Bavel, Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary*
• Elisabeth Vezina, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, University of Calgary*
• Aleta Ambrose, Child and Adolescent Addiction, Mental Health and Psychiatry Program, Alberta Health Services”
• Chris Pawluk, Rocky View Schools”
• Kelly Schwartz, Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary”
• Paul Arnold, Department of Psychiatry, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary

For more information, please contact: Deinera Exner-Cortens, deinera.exner2@ucalgary.ca

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Children, Youth and Families

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