How to Score for Suicidality

The head ZD tool is available online and at theheadzd.com website, they do walk you through how to score with prompts of what would constitute a zero one or two for each of the items. It's not surprising that the higher the score, the greater the need for immediate action. The tool is really meant to be used as a guide though and should not replace your clinical judgment. But the authors do suggest that if the patient score is eight or above and or they have a score of two on suicidality. That means they have a plan or gesture. So I would encourage you to think about printing up this tool if you aren't using anything right now when