Giddens Scales
SPTS (Suicide Plan Tracking Scale)
SMS (Suicidality Modifiers Scale)
SIAS (Suicidal Impulse Attack Scale)
HPTS (Homicide Plan Tracking Scale)
HMS (Homicidality Modifiers Scale)
HIAS (Homicidal Impulse Attack Scale)
SPTS (Suicide Plan Tracking Scale)
The Suicide Plan Tracking Scale (SPTS) is designed to capture many details of suicide planning and to allow clinicians to track suicide planning over time. The SPTS covers 7 domains of suicidal planning:
• suicide method
• suicide means
• suicide location
• suicide date
• suicidal intent
• incomplete preparations
• people involved
It offers the patient a way to share the details of suicide plans with their clinician. It provides the clinician a format to better understand the extent of patient’s suicide planning. The use of the SPTS can help the patient get appropriate, individualized care, which may help them be safe.
SMS (Suicidality Modifiers Scale)
The Suicidality Modifiers Scale (SMS) assesses factors that can influence key domains that can impact suicidality. These factors include impulsive suicidality, hopelessness, loss of enjoyment, and overwhelmed feeling.
SIAS (Suicidal Impulse Attack Scale)
The Suicidal Impulse Attack Scale (SIAS) assesses the components of a suicidal impulse attack. These components are the:
1. need or impulse for the patients to kill oneself sooner rather than later
2. need or impulse for the patients to plan to kill oneself sooner rather than later
3. patients’ thoughts about killing oneself or of being better off dead
4. associated physical symptoms
HPTS (Homicide Plan Tracking Scale)
The Homicide Plan Tracking Scale (HPTS)* is designed to capture many details of homicide planning and to allow clinicians to track homicide planning over time. The HPTS covers 7 domains of suicidal planning:
• homicide method
• homicide means
• homicide location
• homicide date
• people involved
• homicidal intent
• incomplete preparations
It offers the patient a way to share the details of homicide plans with their clinician. It provides the clinician a format to better understand the extent of patient’s homicide planning. The use of the HPTS can help the patient get appropriate, individualized care, which may help them refrain from killing others.
HMS (Homicidality Modifiers Scale)
The Homicidality Modifiers Scale (HMS)* assesses factors that can influence key domains that can impact homicidality. These factors include impulsive homicidality, hopelessness, loss of enjoyment, and overwhelmed feeling.
HIAS (Homicidal Impulse Attack Scale)
The Homicidal Impulse Attack Scale (HIAS)* assesses the components of a homicidal impulse attack. These components are the:
1. need or impulse for the patients to kill someone else sooner rather than later
2. need or impulse for the patients to plan to kill someone else sooner rather than later
3. patients’ thoughts about killing someone else or thoughts that someone else needed to be killed
4. associated physical symptoms
* in field testing.